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Under an English Heaven

Under an English Heaven
  • Author(s): Robert Radcliffe
  • Location(s): Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

1943. The sleepy Suffolk village of Bedenham is jerked into the twentieth century and the harsh realities of war by the arrival on its doorstep of an American bomber base and its three thousand inhabitants. For Billy Street, fourteen,...

Daughters-in-law

Daughters-in-law
  • Author(s): Joanna Trollope
  • Location(s): Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Rachel loves being at the centre of her large family. She has devoted herself fiercely to bringing up her three sons, but at their childhood home on the wide, bird-haunted coast of Suffolk, Rachel finds that her control begins...

The Christmas Menagerie

The Christmas Menagerie
  • Author(s): Minna Howard
  • Location(s): Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Amelia usually loves Christmas, but this year is her first one alone since her husband passed away – though she’s not quite by herself. Somehow, she’s been lumbered with a menagerie of pets over the holidays, no thanks to...

What I Was

What I Was
  • Author(s): Meg Rosoff
  • Location(s): Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

I’d been kicked out of two boarding schools and the last thing I wanted was to be here, on the East Anglian coast, in a third. But without St Oswald’s, I would not have discovered the fisherman’s hut with...

An Amsterdam Affair

An Amsterdam Affair
  • Author(s): Amanda Addison
  • Location(s): Amsterdam, Brighton, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction

An Amsterdam Affair follows Sam and her idealistic teenaged son, Matty. Phil, Sam’s husband, is unemployed because of a short-lived affair that cost him his job as a geologist. Sam finds solace in wild swimming and making art in...

Anyone for Edmund?

Anyone for Edmund?
  • Author(s): Simon Edge
  • Location(s): Suffolk, Bury St Edmunds
  • Genre(s): Comedy, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day, with a medieval theme

Under tennis courts in the ruins of a great abbey, archaeologists find the remains of St Edmund, once venerated as England’s patron saint, but lost for half a millennium. Culture Secretary Marina Spencer, adored by those who have never...

Meet Me at the Museum

Meet Me at the Museum
  • Author(s): Anne Youngson
  • Location(s): Denmark, Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern Day

When the curator of a Danish museum responds to a query about ancient exhibits, he doesn’t expect a reply. When Tina Hopgood first wrote it, nor did she … Professor Anders Larsen, an urbane man of facts, has lost...

Mr Mac and Me

Mr Mac and Me
  • Author(s): A S A Harrison, Esther Freud
  • Location(s): Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW1

Thomas Maggs, the son of the local publican, lives with his parents and sister in a village on the Suffolk coast in 1914. He is the youngest child, and the only son surviving. Life is quiet – shaped by...

Mystery of the Night Watchers

Mystery of the Night Watchers
  • Author(s): A M Howell, Saara Katariina Söderlund (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Edwardian Era

From the award-winning author of The Garden of Lost Secrets and The House of One Hundred Clocks, A.M. Howell, comes a gripping new adventure filled with buried secrets and dark lies, set against the evocative backdrop of the Edwardian...

Of Windmills and War

Of Windmills and War
  • Author(s): Diane Moody
  • Location(s): Netherlands, Framlingham
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

The rumblings of war in distant countries mattered little to Danny McClain. Growing up in Chicago, his world revolved around after-school jobs, a rescued beagle, his pen pal in Holland, and the Cubs’ chance to go to the World...

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