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The Love Child

The Love Child
  • Author(s): Rachel Hore
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1910s

When nineteen-year-old Alice Copeman becomes pregnant, she is forced by her father and stepmother to give up the baby.  She simply cannot be allowed to bring shame upon her family. But all Alice can think about is the small, kitten-like...

The Love Position

The Love Position
  • Author(s): Evie Alexander
  • Location(s): British Virgin Islands, Corsham, England, Salisbury, Somerset
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Forbidden love has never looked so tempting… After making a ground-breaking discovery, archaeologist Sophia Hunter-Savage has her work stolen and her heart broken. She needs a safe place to lick her wounds, so retreats to her family home in...

The Loving Cup: A Novel of Cornwall 1813-1815 (Poldark Book 10)

The Loving Cup: A Novel of Cornwall 1813-1815 (Poldark Book 10)
  • Author(s): Winston Graham
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1813

Cornwall 1813. A silver cup lies half-forgotten in a dank cave, amongst a pile of stolen goods. Yet the tiny vessel and its inscription Amor gignit amorem haunts the lives of the still-feuding Poldark and Warleggan families, as Ross,...

The Luckiest Lady in London

The Luckiest Lady in London
  • Author(s): Sherry Thomas
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Victorian (late 19th century)

Felix Rivendale, the Marquess of Wrenworth, is The Ideal Gentleman, a man all men want to be and all women want to possess. Felix himself almost believes this golden image. But underneath is a damaged soul soothed only by...

The Lynmouth Stories

The Lynmouth Stories
  • Author(s): L V Hay
  • Location(s): Lynmouth
  • Genre(s): Children, Noir, Short Stories
  • Era(s): N/A

Beautiful places hide dark secrets …  Devon’s very own crime writer L.V Hay (The Other Twin, Do No Harm) brings forth three new short stories from her dark mind and poison pen: – For kidnapped Meg and her young son Danny, In...

The Mad Hatter Murders

The Mad Hatter Murders
  • Author(s): Marrisse Whittaker
  • Location(s): The North East (England)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

A British police detective’s latest case gets curiouser and curiouser in this hard-hitting novel by the author of The Devil’s Line. DSI Billie Wilde’s romantic relationship is intense—but it’s nothing compared to the pressure of her latest case, especially...

The Madness of July

The Madness of July
  • Author(s): James Naughtie
  • Location(s): London, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Espionage, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s

‘Secrets and regrets, ambition and venality. I have seldom come across a novel so redolent of le Carré.’ Charles Cumming London, mid-1970s. A sweltering July in Whitehall, and for Will Flemyng, foreign office minister, the temperature rises with each...

The Magic Toyshop

The Magic Toyshop
  • Author(s): Angela Carter
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Young Adult

This is a Gothic novel of Melanie who has to leave her childhood home and move to live with relatives, whom she has never met. Various characters populate this beautiful novel, including brooding Uncle Philip, who loves only the...

The Magpie

The Magpie
  • Author(s): Marrisse Whittaker
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

A killer who runs rings around the police. A detective who is out of control. Meet DSI Wilde. Wilde by name. Wild by nature. DSI Billie Wilde is on a mission to catch the killer responsible for a horrific...

The Maid of Lindal Hall

The Maid of Lindal Hall
  • Author(s): Katie Hutton
  • Location(s): Barrow in Furness
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

Barrow-in-Furness, 1933 The days of the Barrow Union at Roose are numbered and it is due be closed, along with all the other workhouses. Instead ‘Cottage Homes’ have been set up for pauper children, where they live under the...

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