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The Fourth Shore

The Fourth Shore
  • Author(s): Virginia Baily
  • Location(s): Tripoli, London, Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s and 1930s

The Fourth Shore: the sliver of fertile land along the Tripoli coast, the ‘lost’ territory Mussolini promised to reclaim for Italy. Which is how, in 1929, seventeen-year-old Liliana Cattaneo arrives there from Rome on a ship filled with eager...

The Fraud

The Fraud
  • Author(s): Zadie Smith
  • Location(s): Jamaica, Kilburn, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1873

Kilburn, 1873. The ‘Tichborne Trial’ has captivated the widowed Scottish housekeeper Mrs Eliza Touchet and all of England. Readers are at odds over whether the defendant is who he claims to be – or an imposter. Mrs Touchet is...

The Friday Gospels

The Friday Gospels
  • Author(s): Jenn Ashworth
  • Location(s): Chorley, Lancashire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s Friday in the Leeke household, but this is no ordinary Friday and the Leekes are a little unusual: they are Lancastrian Mormons, and this evening their son Gary will return from 2 years as a missionary in Salt...

The Future Homemakers of America

The Future Homemakers of America
  • Author(s): Laurie Graham
  • Location(s): Norfolk, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s-80s

The Fens, 1953: on a remote American Air Force base, five very different military wives become friends. They later meet & befriend a local girl, Kath, giving them an insight into life in this remote, isolated area; they also...

The Garden of Lost Secrets

The Garden of Lost Secrets
  • Author(s): A M Howell
  • Location(s): Surrey
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1916

October, 1916. Clara is sent to stay with her formidable aunt and uncle in the grounds of a country estate. Clara soon discovers that her new surroundings hold secrets: a locked room and a hidden key, and a mysterious...

The Garnett Girls

The Garnett Girls
  • Author(s): Georgina Moore
  • Location(s): Isle of Wight
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Love makes you do things you never thought you were capable of.’ Margo and Richard’s love affair was the stuff legends are made of – forbidden, passionate, all-encompassing. But ultimately, doomed. When Richard walked out, Margo shut herself away...

The Gentleman’s Gambit

The Gentleman’s Gambit
  • Author(s): Evie Dunmore
  • Location(s): Oxford
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Late 19th century

Bookish suffragist Catriona Campbell is busy: an ailing estate, academic writer’s block, a tense time for England’s women’s rights campaign – the last thing she needs is to be stuck playing host to her father’s distractingly attractive young colleague....

The Getaway

The Getaway
  • Author(s): Rona Halsall
  • Location(s): Croatia, London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Would you swap houses – and lives – with a stranger? Maddie and her long-term boyfriend, Tom, dream of a life living and working abroad, though right now they’re settling for a lovely vacation in the sunny European beach...

The Ghost Factory

The Ghost Factory
  • Author(s): Jenny McCartney
  • Location(s): London, Northern Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th century

A powerful debut set in Belfast and London in the latter years of the twentieth century. The Troubles turned Northern Ireland into a ghost factory: as the manufacturing industry withered, the death business boomed. In trying to come to...

The Ghost of Gosswater

The Ghost of Gosswater
  • Author(s): Lucy Strange
  • Location(s): The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Children, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1800s

The Lake District, 1899. The Earl is dead and cruel Cousin Clarence has inherited everything. Twelve-year-old Lady Agatha Asquith is cast out of Gosswater Hall to live in a tiny, tumbledown cottage with a stranger who claims to be...

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