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A Map of the Sky

A Map of the Sky
  • Author(s): Claire Wong
  • Location(s): North Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Kit doesn’t understand why his family has been uprooted to a remote coastal village in the North. Why did they leave so suddenly, and why has his Dad not joined them? At Askfeld Farm Guesthouse he meets an eclectic...

1974 (The Red Riding Quartet)

1974 (The Red Riding Quartet)
  • Author(s): David Peace
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s

Fiction set in Yorkshire. The Yorkshire Post’s young but disillusioned crime correspondent, Edward Dunford, is assigned to the story, while juggling the recent death of his father and the return to his native Yorkshire after a brief, unsuccessful stint...

1983 (The Red Riding Quartet)

1983 (The Red Riding Quartet)
  • Author(s): David Peace
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1980s

Fiction set in Yorkshire. This brings the Red Riding Quartet to its brilliant conclusion. Tense and full of drama it is hard to put down.

22 Britannia Road

22 Britannia Road
  • Author(s): Amanda Hodgkinson
  • Location(s): Ipswich
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1946

Novel set in Ipswich in 1946, Hodgkinson’s debut work movingly depicts how people try to return to normal life after a dreadful expereince. Janusz, a Polish soldier who spent the war apart from his wife and child, has set...

84 Charing Cross Road

84 Charing Cross Road
  • Author(s): Helene Hanff
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

This is a series of letters charting the twenty-year correspondence between Hanff, searching for books which she could not find her homeland and Frank Doel, a London antiquarian bookseller. A unique and touching exchange, the friendship blossoms, but Hanff...

A Better Quality of Murder (Lizzie Martin 3)

A Better Quality of Murder (Lizzie Martin 3)
  • Author(s): Ann Granger
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 19th Century

Evil lurks on the streets of Victorian London in this gripping crime novel. As Inspector Ben Ross of Scotland Yard walks homeward one Saturday night in late October 1867, the fog that swirls around him is like a living...

A Body In Seaview Grange

A Body In Seaview Grange
  • Author(s): Dee MacDonald
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Practice nurse Kate Palmer is ready for some peace and quiet in her little Cornish village, but there’s soon to be a murder on her doorstep… Kate’s retirement in Cornwall hasn’t quite gone as planned – Lavender Cottage is...

A Cornish Affair

A Cornish Affair
  • Author(s): Liz Fenwick
  • Location(s): Cornwall, Helford
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Running out on your wedding day never goes down well. When the pressure of her forthcoming marriage becomes too much, Jude bolts from the church, leaving a good man at the altar, her mother in a fury, and the...

A Cornish Stranger

A Cornish Stranger
  • Author(s): Liz Fenwick
  • Location(s): Helford
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

This novel set in Helford, Cornwall is full of romance and intrigue. There’s an old Cornish saying: ‘Save a stranger from the sea, he’ll turn your enemy…’ When her reclusive grandmother becomes too frail to live alone, Gabriella Blythe...

A Cornish Summer

A Cornish Summer
  • Author(s): Catherine Alliott
  • Location(s): Truro
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

Now she’s been invited to spend the summer in the shady lanes and sandy coves of Cornwall. It should be blissful. There’s just one small snag: she’ll be staying with her former mother-in-law, Belinda. And Flora discovers she’s not...

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