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The Glass Class

The Glass Class
  • Author(s): Suzi Stembridge
  • Location(s): Athens, Calderdale, Snowdonia, Spetses
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance, Thriller
  • Era(s): Late 1970s

Close friends gather at the graveside of the most favoured of this group of privileged young people. Readers discover than Rosalind who has been jilted in favour of her cousin Lucinda, now the widow must suffer the indignity of...

The Glovemaker’s Daughter

The Glovemaker’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Leah Fleming
  • Location(s): West Yorkshire, Pennsylvania
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1666 and 2014

1666. A child is born in the farmhouse at Windebank, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Named Rejoice (Joy) by her dying father, Joy grows up witness to the persecution of the farming community for following a banned faith....

The Go-Between

The Go-Between
  • Author(s): L P Hartley
  • Location(s): Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1900

An invitation for young Leo to join a school friend at Brandham Hall – a world of privilege far removed from his own – for the scorchingly hot summer of 1900 appears innocuous, but Leo soon finds himself drawn...

The Go-Between: A Portrait of Growing Up Between Different Worlds

The Go-Between: A Portrait of Growing Up Between Different Worlds
  • Author(s): Osman Yousefzada
  • Location(s): Birmingham
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1980s and 1990s

A coming-of-age story set in Birmingham in the 1980s and 1990s, The Go-Between opens a window into a closed migrant community living in a red-light district on the wrong side of the tracks. The adult world is seen through...

The Godchild

The Godchild
  • Author(s): Miranda Rijks
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Current Day

When seventeen-year-old Alicia turns up on her godmother’s doorstep and asks if she can stay, Carina can’t say no to the godchild she hasn’t seen in over a decade. In a way, Alicia is the daughter she always wanted....

The Goddess and the Thief

The Goddess and the Thief
  • Author(s): Essie Fox
  • Location(s): India, Windsor
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Gothic
  • Era(s): 19th Century

A beguiling novel of Victorian theft and obsession from the bestselling author of THE SOMNAMBULIST. Uprooted from her home in India, Alice is raised by her aunt, a spiritualist medium in Windsor. When the mysterious Mr Tilsbury enters their...

The Golden Rule

The Golden Rule
  • Author(s): Amanda Craig
  • Location(s): Cornwall, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Hannah is invited into the First-Class carriage of the London to Penzance train by Jinni, she walks into a spider’s web. Now a poor young single mother, Hannah once escaped Cornwall to go to university. But once she...

The Goldhanger Dog

The Goldhanger Dog
  • Author(s): Wanda Whiteley
  • Location(s): Essex
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1553

1553. Goldhanger, a tiny fishing village on the Blackwater marshes. Fifteen-year-old Dela’s strange bond with animals has her branded a witch by the locals. Running for her life, with only a rescued dog for a friend, Dela manages to...

The Good Listener

The Good Listener
  • Author(s): Holly Watt
  • Location(s): Coryton, Exeter
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An anonymous call. A mother desperate for justice. The Good Listeners are there for anyone who needs to talk. When the phone rings, a Good Listener has no idea who could be at the other end. The woman cheating...

The Good Neighbour

The Good Neighbour
  • Author(s): Annie Doyle
  • Location(s): London, Bournemouth, Gateshead, New York City (NYC), Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

Three women making their way in an ever-changing world. Will they find happiness and finally lay the ghosts of the past to rest? London 1922 – Ivy prepares to divorce her cruel husband, but finds the law is not...

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