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The City Changes Its Face

The City Changes Its Face
  • Author(s): Eimear McBride
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1995

‘So, all would be grand then, as far as the eye could see. Which it was, for a while. Up until the city, remembering its knives and forks, invited itself in to dine.’ It’s 1995. Outside their grimy window,...

The City Under Siege

The City Under Siege
  • Author(s): Michael Russell
  • Location(s): Ireland, England, Malta
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

1941, and Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie is ferrying documents between Dublin and war-torn London. When Ireland’s greatest actor is arrested in Soho, after the brutal murder of a gay man, Stefan extricates him from an embarrassing situation. But suddenly...

The Cliff House

The Cliff House
  • Author(s): Amanda Jennings
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): 1986

Some friendships are made to be broken Cornwall, summer of 1986. The Davenports, with their fast cars and glamorous clothes, living the dream in a breathtaking house overlooking the sea. If only… thinks sixteen-year-old Tamsyn, her binoculars trained on...

The Clippie Girls

The Clippie Girls
  • Author(s): Margaret Dickinson
  • Location(s): Sheffield
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

Rose and Myrtle Sylvester look up to their older sister, Peggy. She is the sensible, reliable one in the household of women headed by their grandmother, Grace Booth, and their mother, Mary Sylvester. When war is declared in 1939...

The Clockwork Sparrow (The Sinclair’s Mysteries)

The Clockwork Sparrow (The Sinclair’s Mysteries)
  • Author(s): Katherine Woodfine, Júlia Sardà (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1909, Edwardian Era

Katherine Woodfine’s bestselling debut novel. A fast-paced historical mystery adventure for readers aged 9+, with gorgeous Edwardian period detail. Perfect for fans of Enid Blyton, Chris Riddell’s Goth Girl and Robin Stevens’ Murder Most Unladylike series. You are cordially...

The Closest Thing to Flying

The Closest Thing to Flying
  • Author(s): Gill Lewis
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Present and 1891

Present day: Semira doesn’t know where to call home. She and her mother came to England when she was four years old, brought across the desert and the sea by a man who has complete control. Always moving on,...

The Club

The Club
  • Author(s): Ellery Lloyd
  • Location(s): Essex
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick For fans of The White Lotus and Big Little Lies, Ellery Lloyd’s The Club is an exhilarating, addictive read, telling a story of ambition, excess, and what happens when people who have everything...

The Cocktail Bar

The Cocktail Bar
  • Author(s): Isabella May
  • Location(s): Glastonbury
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Rock star, River Jackson, is back in his hometown of Glastonbury to open a cocktail bar… and the locals aren’t impressed. Seductive Georgina is proving too hot to handle; band mate, Angelic Alice, is messing with his heart and...

THE COCOA GIRLS

THE COCOA GIRLS
  • Author(s): Annie Doyle
  • Location(s): Gateshead, London, New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 19th and early 20th centuries

Gateshead, 1903 – four-year old Evie’s world crumbles when her grandmother dies. Evie’s unmarried mother Margaret and Aunt Dinah discover their mother’s death has left them deeply in debt to their vicious aunt. She orders the sisters into service...

The Coffin Path

The Coffin Path
  • Author(s): Katherine Clements
  • Location(s): North York Moors
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): Mid 17th Century

An eerie and compelling ghost story set on the dark wilds of the Yorkshire moors Maybe you’ve heard tales about Scarcross Hall, the house on the old coffin path that winds from village to moor top. They say there’s...

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