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The Street Party

The Street Party
  • Author(s): Claire Seeber
  • Location(s): West London
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The party was supposed to be the highlight of the summer. If only I’d known that night would destroy our lives… All the neighbours were laughing, drinking out of plastic glasses and getting along. I almost felt happy. Almost...

The Toffee Factory Girls

The Toffee Factory Girls
  • Author(s): Glenda Young
  • Location(s): Chester-le-Street
  • Genre(s): Romance, Cozy Mystery, Historical
  • Era(s): 1915

In 1915 three women start work at a toffee factory in the market town of Chester-le-Street, Durham. Anne works for the enigmatic owner Mr Jack. She is highly efficient and whips Mr Jack’s disorganised office – and Mr Jack...

The Traitor

The Traitor
  • Author(s): Ava Glass
  • Location(s): The Mediterranean, London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

LONDON. EARLY MORNING. A body is found in a padlocked suitcase. Investigator Emma Makepeace knows it’s murder. And it’s personal. She quickly establishes that the dead man had been shadowing two oligarchs suspected of procuring illegal weapons in the...

The Whalebone Theatre

The Whalebone Theatre
  • Author(s): Joanna Quinn
  • Location(s): Dorset, France, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1919 to WW2

Cristabel Seagrave has always wanted her life to be a story, but there are no girls in the books in her dusty family library. For an unwanted orphan who grows into an unmarriageable young woman, there is no place...

The Whole Truth

The Whole Truth
  • Author(s): Cara Hunter
  • Location(s): Oxford
  • Era(s): 2018 and looking back

DI Fawley #5 An attractive student. An older professor. Think you know the story? Think again. THE NEW UP-ALL-NIGHT THRILLER FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER CARA HUNTER She has everything at stake; he has everything to lose. But one...

The Winter Companion

The Winter Companion
  • Author(s): Mimi Matthews
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Victorian

She Needed to be Seen… As a lady’s companion, Clara Hartwright never receives much attention from anyone. And that’s precisely how she likes it. With a stormy past, and an unconventional plan for her future, it’s far safer to...

The Witchfinder’s Sister

The Witchfinder’s Sister
  • Author(s): Beth Underdown
  • Location(s): Manningtree
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 1600s

The number of women my brother Matthew killed, so far as I can reckon it, is one hundred and six… 1645. When Alice Hopkins’ husband dies in a tragic accident, she returns to the small Essex town of Manningtree,...

This Book Made Me Think of You

This Book Made Me Think of You
  • Author(s): Libby Page
  • Location(s): North London, World
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The unforgettable new novel from Sunday Times bestseller Libby Page Twelve stories. Twelve months. Once chance to heal her heart… When Tilly Nightingale receives a call telling her there’s a birthday gift from her fiancé waiting for her at...

This Nowhere Place

This Nowhere Place
  • Author(s): Natasha Bell
  • Location(s): Dover
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
  • Era(s): 2016 and 2026

‘That’s the thing about our town: people only come here if they’re going somewhere else.’ One grey afternoon, high on the cliffs of Dover, two girls agree to help a stranger. Within months, two of the three girls are...

Three Hours

Three Hours
  • Author(s): Rosamund Lupton
  • Location(s): Somerset
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Three hours is 180 minutes or 10,800 seconds. It is a morning’s lessons, a dress rehearsal of Macbeth, a snowy trek through the woods. It is an eternity waiting for news. Or a countdown to something terrible. It is...

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