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Platform Seven

Platform Seven
  • Author(s): Louise Doughty
  • Location(s): Peterborough
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Platform Seven is new. It is also the furthest point of Peterborough Station from the entrance. It is completely deserted. The man walking along the covered walkway at 4am on this freezing November morning knows that. As he sits...

Playing Dead

Playing Dead
  • Author(s): Julia Heaberlin
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The Letter: A few weeks after her father’s death, Tommie McCloud receives a letter in the post from a stranger. The woman claims that Tommie is her biological daughter, kidnapped from her as a baby over thirty years ago....

Playing Nice

Playing Nice
  • Author(s): J P Delaney
  • Location(s): North London
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Pete Riley answers the door one morning to a parent’s worst nightmare. On his doorstep is Miles Lambert, who breaks the devastating news that Pete’s two-year-old, Theo, isn’t Pete’s real son – their babies got mixed up at birth....

Please Don’t Stop the Music

Please Don’t Stop the Music
  • Author(s): Jane Lovering
  • Location(s): North York Moors, York
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Romantic Novel of the Year in 2012 How much can you hide? Jemima Hutton is determined to build a successful new life and keep her past a dark secret. Trouble is, her jewellery business looks set to fail –...

Pleasure City (Shalimar)

Pleasure City (Shalimar)
  • Author(s): Kamala Markandaya
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Please see entry under Shalimar. Same book, different title

Pleasure Island

Pleasure Island
  • Author(s): Anna Lou Weatherley
  • Location(s): Aegean Sea, Greece, Türkiye (Turkey)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Secrets. Scandal. Betrayal. In Paradise, pleasure comes at a dangerously high price… Three couples each receive an exclusive invitation to the fantasy holiday destination of a lifetime… The host: Martin McKenzie, global billionaire and media mogul. Charismatic, powerful and...

Pleasured

Pleasured
  • Author(s): Philip Hensher
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1980s

Set in Berlin months before the fall of the Wall, it follows the lives of a disparate collection of characters, centring on Friedrich Kaiser, a Generation X slacker living in the hedonistic atmosphere of Kreuzberg in West Berlin. Hitchhiking...

Point Zero

Point Zero
  • Author(s): Seicho Matsumoto, Louise Heal Kawai (Translator)
  • Location(s): Kanazawa, Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, In Translation, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1958

Tokyo, 1958. Teiko marries Kenichi Uhara, ten years her senior, an advertising man recommended by a go-between. After a four-day honeymoon, Kenichi vanishes. Teiko travels to the coastal and snow-bound city of Kanazawa, where Kenichi was last seen, to...

Poison

Poison
  • Author(s): Sara Poole
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1400s

1492 – Poison is told from the point of view of Francesca Giordano, who is the professional poisoner to the Borgia family and to Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, who later becomes Pope. Cardinal Borgia is a dangerous man, who is...

Polar Nights

Polar Nights
  • Author(s): Simon Hacker
  • Location(s): Kyle of Tongue and Ben Hope, Sutherland, Svalbard
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Hitching a ride on a rogue iceberg, a polar bear washes up on the north coast of Scotland and immediately causes havoc in a small fishing community. Intent on the media scoop of the decade, TV journalist Rebecca Riposte...

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