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The Hand That First Held Mine

The Hand That First Held Mine
  • Author(s): Maggie O'Farrell
  • Location(s): London
  • Era(s): 1950s onwards

Winner of the 2010 Costa Novel Award and a Sunday Times bestseller, THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE by Maggie O’Farrell is a gorgeously written story of love and motherhood from the author of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE....

The Handover

The Handover
  • Author(s): David M Barnett
  • Location(s): Manchester
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Daisy does nights and Nate does days, which causes no end of hilarity at the Manchester Museum of Social History. ‘It should be Daisy on days and Nate on nights,’ Marion on the reception says to her at least...

The Haunting

The Haunting
  • Author(s): Alex Bell
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

Some curses grow stronger with time… People say that all Cornish inns are haunted, but the Waterwitch’s history is particularly chilling. Built from the salvaged timber of a cursed ship, the guest house’s dark secrets go further back than...

The Haunting of Alma Fielding

The Haunting of Alma Fielding
  • Author(s): Kate Summerscale
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Paranormal
  • Era(s): Late 1930s

London, 1938. Alma Fielding, an ordinary young woman, begins to experience supernatural events in her suburban home. Nandor Fodor – a Jewish-Hungarian refugee and chief ghost hunter for the International Institute for Psychical research – begins to investigate. In...

The Haunting of Aveline Jones

The Haunting of Aveline Jones
  • Author(s): Phil Hickes
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Aveline Jones loves reading ghost stories, so a dreary half-term becomes much more exciting when she discovers a spooky old book. Not only are the stories spine-tingling, but it once belonged to Primrose Penberthy, who vanished mysteriously, never to...

The Haunting of Lindy Pennyworth

The Haunting of Lindy Pennyworth
  • Author(s): Sam Pope, Camilla Montemaggi (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Oxford, North London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A psychological horror that will grip you from the first page, and haunt you long after you’ve finished the last. Nobody believes Lindy when she says she doesn’t pull her hair out on purpose. Nobody believes Lindy when she...

The Haven

The Haven
  • Author(s): LJ Ross
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

SOME LEGENDS NEVER DIE… Irish newsreader Isolde Malone has a face many would recognise; in fact, she can’t walk through the streets of Dublin without bumping into a horde of fans, all of whom want their picture taken with...

The Healing Knife

The Healing Knife
  • Author(s): S L Russell
  • Location(s): France, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present

To Rachel Keyte death is the enemy. The early loss of her beloved father from heart failure ignited a single-minded determination in her: to save as many patients as she can, and to become a consultant before the age...

The Heavens

The Heavens
  • Author(s): Sandra Newman
  • Location(s): London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1593 & 2000

New York, 2000 Kate and Ben meet at a party and fall instantly, irrevocably in love. Around them, the city glows. It is the first year without a war anywhere. A woman is president, and an air of camaraderie...

The Heights

The Heights
  • Author(s): Ian Rankin
  • Location(s): Westminster
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

MURDER COMES TO LONDON’S MOST LUXURIOUS HIGH-RISE: AND EVERY RESIDENT IS A SUSPECT. The Heights: a gleaming, high-end high-rise looming over Hyde Park. Newly built from steel and smoked glass, a billionaire’s playground offering sumptuous suites for the global...

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