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The Bookman’s Tale

The Bookman’s Tale
  • Author(s): Charlie Lovett
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

A mysterious portrait ignites an antiquarian bookseller’s search for his lost love. Guaranteed to capture the hearts of everyone who truly loves books and literature – in particular the golden age of Shakespeare, Jonson and Marlowe – The Bookman’s...

The Bookseller

The Bookseller
  • Author(s): Tim Sullivan
  • Location(s): Bristol
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural
  • Era(s): Contemporary

THE SETTING When the body of a bookseller is discovered, collapsed in a pool of blood in his Bristolian bookshop, it is immediately clear that he has been murdered. What is unclear is how someone could have met such...

The Bookseller’s Secret

The Bookseller’s Secret
  • Author(s): Michelle Gable
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

ARISTOCRAT, AUTHOR, BOOKSELLER, WWII SPY–A THRILLING NOVEL ABOUT REAL-LIFE LITERARY ICON NANCY MITFORD In 1942, London, Nancy Mitford is worried about more than air raids and German spies. Still recovering from a devastating loss, the once sparkling Bright Young...

The Bookseller’s Wife

The Bookseller’s Wife
  • Author(s): Jane Davis
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Georgian

London, 1775. Books have always been Dorcas Turton’s refuge—but now they may be her salvation. The only surviving child of six, Dorcas should have inherited security and status. But after her mother’s untimely death, she is stunned by the...

The Bookshop Detective

The Bookshop Detective
  • Author(s): Jan Ellis
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

When a ghost ship is spotted on the horizon one spring evening, bookseller Eleanor Mace decides to investigate the myths and legends of Combemouth, the Devon seaside town where she runs The Reading Room. As Eleanor digs deeper into...

The Botanist’s Daughter

The Botanist’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Kayte Nunn
  • Location(s): Cornwall, Chile, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Present-day, 1800s

A buried secret… Present day: Anna is focused on growing her new gardening business and renovating her late grandmother’s house. But when she discovers a box hidden in a wall cavity, containing water colours of exotic plants, an old...

The Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness

The Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness
  • Author(s): Graham Caveney
  • Location(s): Accrington
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1970s & 1980s

Graham Caveney was born in 1964 in Accrington: a town in the north of England, formerly known for its cotton mills, now mainly for its football team. Armed with his generic Northern accent and a record collection including the...

The Brave Daughters

The Brave Daughters
  • Author(s): Mary Wood
  • Location(s): England, France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

A moving and emotional family drama set between France and Britain from bestselling author, Mary Wood. They would fight for their country, at all costs . . . When Sibbie and Marjie arrive at RAF Digby, they are about...

The Bride

The Bride
  • Author(s): Wendy Clarke
  • Location(s): East London
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Alice arrives in London’s Docklands to meet her former best friend’s fiancé, she has the terrible feeling something’s wrong. Why had Joanna never mentioned Mark and, after only a month together, how can she be sure he’s the...

The Brief

The Brief
  • Author(s): Simon Michael
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s

Charles Holborne, ne Horowitz, is an East End boy with a past – an ex-boxer and ex-criminal – who becomes a West End boy when he qualifies as a barrister. Now he’s trapped between two worlds and fits in...

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