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Time’s Tide

Time’s Tide
  • Author(s): Adrian Harvey
  • Location(s): Iceland, Cambridge
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 19th to early 20th centuries

A father and son struggle to overcome the distance between them. Each is drawn irresistibly to an unforgiving landscape, one that has been the scene of tragedy and loss. The son’s return to the northern shore he abandoned as...

Tremarnock

Tremarnock
  • Author(s): Emma Burstall
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A beautiful Cornish village, a shocking turn of events… Tremarnock is a classic Cornish seaside village. Houses painted in yellow, pink and white, cluster around the harbour, where fishermen still unload their daily catch. It has a pub and...

Tuesday Falling

Tuesday Falling
  • Author(s): S Williams
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

You’ve never met anyone like Tuesday. She has suffered extreme cruelty at the hands of men, and so has taken it upon herself to seek vengeance. She wants to protect and help others like her, to ease their suffering....

Under a Cornish Sky

Under a Cornish Sky
  • Author(s): Liz Fenwick
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Demi desperately needs her luck to change. On the sleeper train down to Cornwall, she can’t help wondering why everything always goes wrong for her. Having missed out on her dream job, and left with nowhere to stay following...

Unnatural Ends

Unnatural Ends
  • Author(s): Christoper Huang
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1921

Sir Lawrence Linwood is dead. More accurately, he was murdered―savagely beaten to death in his own study with a mediaeval mace. The murder calls home his three adopted children: Alan, an archeologist; Roger, an engineer; and Caroline, a journalist....

Walking Home

Walking Home
  • Author(s): Simon Armitage
  • Location(s): The Pennines
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2010

In summer 2010 Simon Armitage decided to walk the Pennine Way. The challenging 256-mile route is usually approached from south to north, from Edale in the Peak District to Kirk Yetholm, the other side of the Scottish border. He...

What Goes Around: A London Cycle Courier’s Story

What Goes Around: A London Cycle Courier’s Story
  • Author(s): Emily Chappell
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Emily Chappell never meant to be a cycle courier. She planned to earn her living using her mind rather than her legs. She thought it’d be a useful stopgap while searching for a ‘real’ job. Today, six years on,...

When We Fall

When We Fall
  • Author(s): Carolyn Kirby
  • Location(s): Poland, England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

England, 1943. Lost in fog, pilot Vee Katchatourian is forced to make an emergency landing where she meets enigmatic RAF airman Stefan Bergel, and then can’t get him out of her mind. In occupied Poland, Ewa Hartman hosts German...

Year of Wonders

Year of Wonders
  • Author(s): Geraldine Brooks
  • Location(s): Derbyshire, Eyam
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1660s onwards

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘March’ and ‘People of the Book’. A young woman’s struggle to save her family and her soul during the extraordinary year of 1666, when plague suddenly struck a small Derbyshire village. In 1666,...

Baptism

Baptism
  • Author(s): Max Kinnings
  • Location(s): England, London, Snowdonia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

07:45am. A monk lies dead in Snowdonia, a knife protruding from his throat. A young family is being held at gunpoint in a house in Wimbledon. The mission has begun. 08:56am. A London Underground train is stationary in a...

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