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Sycamore Gap

Sycamore Gap
  • Author(s): LJ Ross
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Detective Chief Inspector Ryan believes he has put his turbulent history behind him. Then, in the early hours of the summer solstice, the skeleton of a young woman is found inside the Roman Wall at Sycamore Gap. She has...

The Atlas of Us

The Atlas of Us
  • Author(s): Tracey Buchanan
  • Location(s): Exmoor, Finland, Koh Phi Phi, Krabi, Serbia, The Outback
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Late 1900s through 2004 to 2014

How far would you go for the one you love the most? A stormy love affair. A secret. A discovery that changes everything … Louise Fenton flies to a devastated Thailand to search for her mother, missing following the...

The Family on Paradise Pier

The Family on Paradise Pier
  • Author(s): Dermot Bolger
  • Location(s): England, Russia, Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

A stunning historical saga set in the early decades of the twentieth century which follows the lives and loves of one extraordinary family. We first meet the Goold Verschoyle children in 1915. Though there is a war going on...

The Medici Mirror

The Medici Mirror
  • Author(s): Melissa Bailey
  • Location(s): France, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Modern and 16th Century

A hidden room When architect Johnny Carter is asked to redesign a long-abandoned Victorian shoe factory, he discovers a hidden room deep in the basement. A dark, sinister room, which contains a sixteenth-century Venetian mirror. A love in danger...

The Silent Resistance

The Silent Resistance
  • Author(s): Anna Normann
  • Location(s): Haugesund, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

Occupied Norway, 1944. While the war rages on, Anni is surviving as best she can, contributing to the resistance whenever possible and standing firm without her sailor husband Lars, who she hasn’t heard from in three years. Her daughter...

The Silent Tide

The Silent Tide
  • Author(s): Rachel Hore
  • Location(s): England, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s and Modern

When Emily Gordon, editor at a London publishing house, commissions an account of great English novelist Hugh Morton, she finds herself steering a tricky path between Morton’s formidable widow, Jacqueline, who’s determined to protect his secrets, and the biographer,...

Wedlock: How Georgian Britain’s Worst Husband Met His Match

Wedlock: How Georgian Britain’s Worst Husband Met His Match
  • Author(s): Wendy Moore
  • Location(s): County Durham, Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1750s-1800

Moore transposes the historical Mary Eleonor Bowes (distant relationship of the Queen Mother) into a living, breathing woman, suffering Domestic Abuse at the hands of her new husband. It follows in detail her trials and tribulations through her marriage,...

Apple Tree Yard

Apple Tree Yard
  • Author(s): Louise Doughty
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Yvonne Carmichael has worked hard to achieve the life she always wanted: a high-flying career in genetics, a beautiful home, a good relationship with her husband and their two grown-up children. Then one day she meets a stranger at...

Charlotte Street

Charlotte Street
  • Author(s): Danny Wallace
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Jason is a former teacher, who now works as a journalist on a free newspaper. One day he sees an attractive woman with loads of bags trying to get into a taxi. He endeavours to help and as she...

The Empress of Ice Cream

The Empress of Ice Cream
  • Author(s): Anthony Capella
  • Location(s): England, France, Italy
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1670s

FRANCE 1670. Carlo Demirco’s mastery of the extraordinary new art of creating ice creams has brought him wealth, women, and a position at the court of Louis XIV. Then Carlo is sent to London, along with Louise de Keroualle,...

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