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The Marlow Murder Club

The Marlow Murder Club
  • Author(s): Robert Thorogood
  • Location(s): Marlow
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

To solve an impossible murder, you need an impossible hero… Judith Potts is seventy-seven years old and blissfully happy. She lives on her own in a faded mansion just outside Marlow, there’s no man in her life to tell...

The Marriage Act

The Marriage Act
  • Author(s): John Marrs
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Future, Fiction
  • Era(s): Near Future

What if marriage was the law? Dare you disobey? Britain. The near-future. A right-wing government believes it has the answer to society’s ills – the Sanctity of Marriage Act, which actively encourages marriage as the norm, punishing those who...

The Marriage of Gryphons

The Marriage of Gryphons
  • Author(s): Chrys Cymri
  • Location(s): Northampton
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): Today

A blast of wind flicked hair from my face. Long toes wrapped around my waist, claws prickling through fur and clothing as I was snatched from the ground. The dragon lifted me high into the grey skies above Llundain....

The Marsh House

The Marsh House
  • Author(s): Zoe Somerville
  • Location(s): Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

The haunting second novel from the author of The Night of the Flood. Two women, separated by decades, are drawn together by one, mysterious house on the North Norfolk coast. ‘Part ghost story, part thriller, I loved it.’ Louise...

The Match

The Match
  • Author(s): Romesh Gunesekera
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon), London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

As a teenager from Sri Lanka, Sunny liked to play cricket. But none of his new friends in Manila were remotely interested. That is until the gorgeous Tina arrived, all poise and perfection. Three decades on, Sunny is settled...

The Match Factory Girls

The Match Factory Girls
  • Author(s): Kay Brellend
  • Location(s): East London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1880's/1890's

When Amelia Spencer finds herself unmarried, pregnant, and cast out by society, she flees to the Bryant & May match factory, searching for her estranged sister, Sadie. But the East End is no refuge – Sadie is trapped in...

The Matilda Effect

The Matilda Effect
  • Author(s): Ellie Irving
  • Location(s): England, Hamburg, Paris, Stockholm
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Matilda loves science and inventing. Her heroes are Marie Curie, Leonardo da Vinci and Thomas Edison, and one day she wants to be a famous inventor herself. So when she doesn’t win the school science fair, she’s devastated –...

The Mating Season

The Mating Season
  • Author(s): P G Wodehouse
  • Location(s): Hampshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

A Jeeves and Wooster novel At Deverill Hall, an idyllic Tudor manor in the picture-perfect village of King’s Deverill, impostors are in the air. The prime example is man-about-town Bertie Wooster, doing a good turn to Gussie Fink-Nottle by...

The Meal of Fortune

The Meal of Fortune
  • Author(s): Philip Brady
  • Location(s): West London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

A delightfully comic crime thriller bringing together Russian hit-men, M15 spies, the Eurovision song contest and a TV chef. A celebrity agent is hired by a shady Russian billionaire (who is under surveillance by the British Security service) to...

The Memory Be Green: An Oral History of a Devon Village

The Memory Be Green: An Oral History of a Devon Village
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

When she first moved to Littleham near Bideford, Liz Shakespeare decided to capture a vanishing way of life by recording the memories of elderly men and women who were born early in the twentieth century. Farmers, housewives and labourers...

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