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The Peckham Experiment

The Peckham Experiment
  • Author(s): Guy Ware
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s - 2017

Guy Ware’s new novel charts a course from the 1930s onwards through the fragmentary memories of the 85 year-old Charlie, whose identical twin brother JJ has recently died. Sons of a working-class Communist family, growing up in the radical...

The Railway Girls

The Railway Girls
  • Author(s): Maisie Thomas
  • Location(s): Manchester
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): World War II

In February, 1922, at the western-most entrance to Victoria Station in Manchester, a massive plaque was unveiled. Beneath a vast tiled map showing the lines of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway network, a series of seven bronze panels recorded...

The Road Home

The Road Home
  • Author(s): Rose Tremain
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Lev is on his way from Eastern Europe to Britain, seeking work. Behind him loom the figures of his dead wife, his beloved young daugher and his outrageous friend Rudi who – dreaming of the wealthy West – lives...

The Rock

The Rock
  • Author(s): LJ Ross
  • Location(s): South Tyneside, The North East (England)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

FROM THE SHADOWS INTO THE LIGHT…   When a fishing boat is wrecked off the treacherous North Sea coast and the body of a young woman washes up on the beach beside the iconic ‘Marsden Rock’, DCI Ryan cannot...

The Scandal (Stone and Oliver Book 3)

The Scandal (Stone and Oliver Book 3)
  • Author(s): Mari Hannah
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When an young man is found stabbed to death in a side street in Newcastle city centre in the run up to Christmas, it looks like a botched robbery to DCI David Stone. But when DS Frankie Oliver arrives...

The Secret Diary

The Secret Diary
  • Author(s): Anna Stuart
  • Location(s): Langham, Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Dual Timeline - WWII and Contemporary

The past merges with the present in an unforgettable, poignant story of love, loss and courage in this beautifully written story set between World War Two and the present day. She steps into the room and it’s like going...

The Secret of You

The Secret of You
  • Author(s): Victoria Connelly
  • Location(s): The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): MOdern

Journalist Anna McCall has never understood people who collect things so, when she’s asked to interview local collector and eccentric, William Kitson, she isn’t exactly looking forward to the experience. But she soon falls under the charm of Fox...

The Stargazers

The Stargazers
  • Author(s): Harriet Evans
  • Location(s): Hampstead, West Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age
  • Era(s): 1950s/1970s

It’s the 1970s, and Sarah has spent a lifetime trying to bury memories of her childhood: the constant fear, the horror of her school days, and Fane, the vast, crumbling house that was the sole obsession of her mother,...

The Stars’ Tennis Balls

The Stars’ Tennis Balls
  • Author(s): Stephen Fry
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1980s forward

Ned Maddstone has the world at his feet. He is handsome, talented and about to go to Cambridge, after which he is expected to follow his father into politics. But an unfortunate confrontation with a boy in his school...

The Stolen Girl

The Stolen Girl
  • Author(s): Renita D'Silva
  • Location(s): Bangalore (Bengaluru), London, Udupi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

‘Your mother has been arrested. She stole you.’ For as long as thirteen-year-old Diya can remember, it’s always been just her and her mum, Vani. Despite never staying in one place long enough to call it home, with her...

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