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Flying with Kites

Flying with Kites
  • Author(s): Alan Reynolds
  • Location(s): Gateshead, Kosovo, Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Recent

When you have lost everything, how far would you go?What would you do to protect your child? The war in Kosovo has already been relegated to the history books but in Flying with Kites, Alan Reynolds reminds us of...

The Little Theatre By The Sea

The Little Theatre By The Sea
  • Author(s): Rosanna Ley
  • Location(s): Sardinia (Sardegna), Dorset
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Faye has just completed her degree in interior design when she finds herself jobless and boyfriend-less. While debating what to do next she receives a surprise phone call from her old college friend Charlotte who now lives in Sardinia...

The Curious Charms Of Arthur Pepper

The Curious Charms Of Arthur Pepper
  • Author(s): Phaedra Patrick
  • Location(s): England, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Having been married for over 40 years, 69-year-old Arthur Pepper is mourning the loss of his wife. On the anniversary of her death, he finally musters the courage to go through her possessions, and happens upon a charm bracelet...

Monument to Murder (Kate Daniels 4)

Monument to Murder (Kate Daniels 4)
  • Author(s): Mari Hannah
  • Location(s): Bamburgh, Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

When skeletal remains are found beneath the fortified walls of an ancient castle on Northumberland’s rugged coastline, DCI Kate Daniels calls on a forensic anthropologist to help identify the corpse. Meanwhile, newly widowed prison psychologist Emily McCann finds herself...

Brighton Belle

Brighton Belle
  • Author(s): Sara Sheridan
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1950s

1951. Brighton. With the excitement of the war over and the Nazis brought to justice at Nuremberg, Mirabelle Bevan (retired Secret Service) thinks her skills are no longer required. After the death of her lover she moves to the...

city-lit London

city-lit London
  • Author(s): Heather Reyes
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Various

London is the world’s most happening, most exciting and most diverse city. From Roman stronghold and capital of the British Empire to financial powerhouse and city of the 2012 Olympics, London has always looked to the past and the...

Diving Belles

Diving Belles
  • Author(s): Lucy Wood
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

12 short stories…..Cornwall’s magic casts some pretty strong spells. The stories in Lucy Wood’s debut collection have a distinctly otherworldly sensation to them – slightly surreal, steeped in enchantments and shimmering with an infusion of the area’s folklore and...

Jamaica Inn

Jamaica Inn
  • Author(s): Daphne du Maurier
  • Location(s): Bodmin Moor
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late Victorian

The scenery and setting are a crucial background to this book. Mary Yellan is to go and live on these very bleak and hostile moors at the solitary and isolated Jamaica Inn, run by the frightening and cruel drunkard,...

Mackerel the Travelling Cat

Mackerel the Travelling Cat
  • Author(s): Katharine and Maurice George
  • Location(s): The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

Mackerel the intrepid exploring cat. He is taken on various trips to the Lake District with his owners where he can explore on paw the fells and pikes, or retreat to his special cat-back-pack if he wants to take...

Sea of Lost Love

Sea of Lost Love
  • Author(s): Santa Montefiore
  • Location(s): Cornwall, Southern Italy
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1950s

An idyllic Cornish holiday in the summer of 1958. A happy aristocratic family blessed with wealth and promise. But unbeknown to all of them, death stalks paradise. When catastrophe strikes in the most unexpected way, the tragedy first breaks...

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