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The Family Holiday

The Family Holiday
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Noble
  • Location(s): The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Chamberlain family used to be close. Charlie and Daphne were happily married, and their children Laura, Scott and Nick were inseparable. But then, inevitably, the children grew up and their own messy lives got in the way. Since...

The Family Upstairs

The Family Upstairs
  • Author(s): Lisa Jewell
  • Location(s): Chelsea
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In a large house in London’s fashionable Chelsea, a baby is awake in her cot. Well-fed and cared for, she is happily waiting for someone to pick her up. In the kitchen lie three decomposing corpses. Close to them...

The Fantastic Book of Everybody’s Secrets

The Fantastic Book of Everybody’s Secrets
  • Author(s): Sophie Hannah
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Everybody has their secrets, and in Sophie Hannah’s fantastic stories the curtains positively twitch with them. Who, for instance, is the hooded figure hiding in the bushes outside a young man’s house? Why does the same stranger keep appearing...

The Farm at the Edge of the World

The Farm at the Edge of the World
  • Author(s): Sarah Vaughan
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day and 1943-4

A timeslip story about love, loss and forgiveness. Three generations of women; a secret to atone for; all played out on a stretch of north Cornish coast. 1939, and Will and Alice are evacuated to a granite farm in...

The Fascination

The Fascination
  • Author(s): Essie Fox
  • Location(s): Buckinghamshire, Herefordshire, London
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): !9th Century

Victorian England. A world of rural fairgrounds and glamorous London theatres. A world of dark secrets and deadly obsessions… Twin sisters Keziah and Tilly Lovell are identical in every way, except that Tilly hasn’t grown a single inch since...

The Feast

The Feast
  • Author(s): Margaret Kennedy
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1947

Cornwall, Midsummer 1947. Pendizack Manor Hotel has just been buried in the rubble of a collapsed cliff. Seven guests have perished, but what brought this strange assembly together for a moonlit feast before this Act of God – or...

The Fell

The Fell
  • Author(s): Sarah Moss
  • Location(s): The Peak District
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2021/22

‘A tense page-turner . . . I gulped The Fell down in one sitting’ – Emma Donoghue ‘Her work is as close to perfect as a novelist’s can be’ – The Times At dusk on a November evening in...

The Ferryman’s Daughter

The Ferryman’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Juliet Greenwood
  • Location(s): St Ives, River Hayle
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): First World War

Can Hester help her family escape desperate poverty and fulfil her dreams? 1908: Hester always loved her mother best, her father had always been a hard man to like, spending more time (and money) in the local than with...

The Feud

The Feud
  • Author(s): Amanda James
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction, Suspense
  • Era(s): Present day

Matthew Trevelyar leaves his job in London to return to his Cornish roots in the village of St Agnes. After losing his wife to leukaemia, he wants to make a fresh start. His new life is going well until...

The Fifth Guest

The Fifth Guest
  • Author(s): Jenny Knight
  • Location(s): Oxford
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

Five friends. One deadly secret. Five old university friends gather on the eve of their flatmate’s memorial at a beautiful riverside house. Host Caro is as perfect as always. Shy, awkward Lily’s now a bestselling author. Sports hero George...

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