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The Atomics

The Atomics
  • Author(s): Paul Maunder
  • Location(s): Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Longlisted for the Caledonia Novel Award Midsummer, 1968. When Frank Banner and his wife Gail move to the rural Suffolk coast to work at a newly built nuclear power station, they are hoping to leave the violence and pain...

The Austen Girls

The Austen Girls
  • Author(s): Lucy Worsley
  • Location(s): Kent
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 19th century

Would she ever find a real-life husband? Would she even find a partner to dance with at tonight’s ball? She just didn’t know. Anna Austen has always been told she must marry rich. Her future depends upon it. While...

The Authenticity Project

The Authenticity Project
  • Author(s): Clare Pooley
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Six strangers with one thing in common: their lives aren’t always what they make them out to be. What would happen if they told the truth instead? Julian Jessop is tired of hiding the deep loneliness he feels. So...

The Autograph Man

The Autograph Man
  • Author(s): Zadie Smith
  • Location(s): London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

The Autograph Man follows one Alex-Li Tandem: a twenty-something Chinese-Jewish autograph dealer turned on by sex, drugs and organised religion. From London to New York, love to death, fathers to sons, Alex tries to discover how a piece of...

The Autumn of the Ace

The Autumn of the Ace
  • Author(s): Louis de Bernières
  • Location(s): Peshawar, Canada, England
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s & 1950s

Louis de Bernières is the master of historical fiction that makes you both laugh and cry, in the perfect nostalgic read to escape with this autumn. Is it ever too late to change your story? Daniel Pitt was an...

The Aziola’s Cry: A Novel of the Shelleys

The Aziola’s Cry: A Novel of the Shelleys
  • Author(s): Ezra Harker Shaw
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Regency Era

Love, tragedy, and the pursuit of literary greatness intertwine in a tumultuous journey that defies societal norms and tests the resilience of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and Percy Bysshe Shelley. In the year 1814, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, a gifted teenager...

The Bad Things

The Bad Things
  • Author(s): Mary-Jane Riley
  • Location(s): East Anglia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present/Fifteen years earlier

Alex Devlin’s life changed forever fifteen years ago when her sister Sasha’s two small children were snatched in broad daylight. Little Harry’s body was found a few days later, but Millie’s remains were never discovered. Now Jackie Wood, jailed...

The Bartlett Family Secrets

The Bartlett Family Secrets
  • Author(s): Susan Willis
  • Location(s): Bournemouth
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2022

The Bartlett family are close. Thirty-two-year-old, Jessie has two younger brothers and a sister. Her biological father, Allan, died when she was five and her mum Kathleen remarried. Jessie’s stepdad, David has been her anchor and although now confined...

The Bathonians

The Bathonians
  • Author(s): Richard Paul Skinner
  • Location(s): Arkansas, Bath, Florida
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

Kate is at the heart of a group of friends in Bath, England and abroad. Over the years, their lives and relationships result in picaresque episodes of love, passion, unexpected alliances, betrayal, trauma and death. Yet from the chaos,...

The Bay

The Bay
  • Author(s): LJ Ross
  • Location(s): St Ives
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(The Summer Suspense Mysteries) In the picturesque seaside town of St Ives, Detective Sergeant Sophie Keane is a pillar of the community. Between the occasional collar and lazy weekends spent on the beach, it seems a perfect life. But...

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