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The Child in Time

The Child in Time
  • Author(s): Ian McEwan
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1980s

On a routine trip to the supermarket with his daughter one Saturday morning, Stephen Lewis, a well-known writer of children’s books, turns his back momentarily. When he looks around again, his child is gone. In a single moment, everything...

The Children Act

The Children Act
  • Author(s): Ian McEwan
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

A brilliant, emotionally wrenching new novel from the author of Atonement and Amsterdam. Fiona Maye, a leading High Court judge, renowned for her fierce intelligence and sensitivity is called on to try an urgent case. For religious reasons, a...

The Children’s Home

The Children’s Home
  • Author(s): Charles Lambert
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Dystopian, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

A beguiling and disarming novel about a mysterious group of children who appear to a disfigured recluse and his country doctor. Morgan Fletcher, the disfigured heir to a fortune of mysterious origins, lives on a sprawling estate, cut off...

The Chosen

The Chosen
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Lowry
  • Location(s): Cornwall, Dorset
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1912

One Wednesday morning in November 1912 the ageing Thomas Hardy, entombed by paper and books and increasingly estranged from his wife Emma, finds her dying in her bedroom. Between his speaking to her and taking her in his arms,...

The Chosen Queen

The Chosen Queen
  • Author(s): Sam Davey
  • Location(s): Cornwall, Orkney Islands
  • Genre(s): Mythology
  • Era(s): Arthurian Legend

The stories of Camelot do not begin with the sword in the stone—but rather with a twisted chain of murder, magic, and deceit. Igraine is happily married to Gorlois, Duke of Cornwall, even though his withdrawal from the Mysteries...

The Christmas Holiday

The Christmas Holiday
  • Author(s): Maxine Morrey
  • Location(s): Florida, India, London, Malaysia (Malaya), Scotland
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

As winter comes to London, journalist Mia Walker is desperately hoping for her big break as a travel writer, dreaming of exotic locations and sun-soaked beaches. When she’s invited to write a romantic travel piece that ends in a...

The Christmas Holiday

The Christmas Holiday
  • Author(s): Phillipa Ashley
  • Location(s): The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Krystle didn’t have a normal childhood and longed for warm family Christmases with presents under the tree. Now she makes sure everyone else has the perfect Christmas she never had, bringing beautiful decorations to cheer as many people as...

The Christmas Letter

The Christmas Letter
  • Author(s): Emily Stone
  • Location(s): England, London, Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Travel from the gorgeous English countryside to romantic Venice with the bestselling author of One Last Gift and Always, in December Emily Stone. Every December Holly writes to a stranger who is spending Christmas alone, and every year she...

The Christmas Project

The Christmas Project
  • Author(s): Maxine Morrey
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Could happy ever after be waiting underneath the mistletoe? Professional organiser Kate has had her share of demanding clients. But Michael O’Farrell is the most obnoxious man she’s ever met. He may be gorgeous, but if he wasn’t her...

The Christmas Tasters

The Christmas Tasters
  • Author(s): Susan Willis
  • Location(s): North Shields
  • Genre(s): Food and Drink, Romance
  • Era(s): 2021

Sarah runs taste panels at the local supermarket where six complete strangers meet every Thursday to taste Christmas puddings and cakes. Week by week we are involved with the lives of these different characters. From, two elderly ladies at...

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