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The Abstainer

The Abstainer
  • Author(s): Ian McGuire
  • Location(s): Manchester
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1860s

Manchester, 1867: Stephen Doyle, an Irish-American veteran of the Civil War, arrives from New York with a thirst for blood. He has joined the Fenians, a secret society intent on ending British rule in Ireland by any means necessary....

The Accidental Mother

The Accidental Mother
  • Author(s): Rowan Coleman
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sophie Mills has worked her Manolo Blahniks off to reach the near-top of her profession. And she’s very happy with her priorities in life – her job, her neurotic cat Artemis and her passion for shoes. After all, relationships...

The Actor

The Actor
  • Author(s): Chris MacDonald
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

At long last, Adam Sealey has an Oscar within reach. Working with his controversial former mentor, Jonathan, he’s given the performance of a lifetime, and he almost believes it might be worth the cost. Because Adam subscribes to “the...

The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot

The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot
  • Author(s): Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Turn of the 20th Century

The adventure of the devil’s foot by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves in Cornwall one spring , but the holiday ends with a bizarre event. Another classic adventure from Sherlock holmes, a great...

The Adventures of Robin Hood

The Adventures of Robin Hood
  • Author(s): Roger Lancelyn Green, Arthur Hall (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Sherwood Forest, Nottingham
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

The classic story of social justice and outrageous cunning. Robin Hood, champion of the poor and oppressed, stands against the cruel power of Prince John and the brutal Sheriff of Nottingham. Taking refuge in the vast Sherwood Forest with...

The Alehouse Murders

The Alehouse Murders
  • Author(s): Maureen Ash
  • Location(s): Lincoln
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): Early medieval

After years of captivity in the Holy Land, Templar Bascot de Marins escapes with injuries to his body and soul. Now on sojourn at Lincoln Castle, he hopes to regain his strength, and mend his waning faith-but not even...

The Alice Network

The Alice Network
  • Author(s): Kate Quinn
  • Location(s): France, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): First half 20th Century

In an enthralling new historical novel from national bestselling author Kate Quinn, two women—a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947—are...

The Almanack

The Almanack
  • Author(s): Martine Bailey
  • Location(s): Chester, Cheshire, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 18th century

SUPERSTITION. MURDER. VENGEANCE. Tabitha Hart earns a scandalous living in London, with whichever gentleman has enough coin for her company. But in the summer of 1752, her mother urgently summons her home to the village of Netherlea and she...

The Alone Alternative

The Alone Alternative
  • Author(s): Linda MacDonald
  • Location(s): London, Devon, Isles of Scilly
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2012

Former classmates Edward and Marianne, now fifty-five, have experienced a turbulent few years having lost contact with each other and suffered painful disruption to their home lives. Reunited again, this time through Twitter, they set about a search for...

The Amber Keeper

The Amber Keeper
  • Author(s): Freda Lightfoot
  • Location(s): Russia, The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Early / mid 20th Century

Set against the backdrop of revolutionary Russia, The Amber Keeper is a sweeping tale of jealousy and revenge, reconciliation and forgiveness. English Lake District, 1960s: A young Abbie Myers returns home after learning of her mother’s death. Estranged from...

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