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The Memory of Animals

The Memory of Animals
  • Author(s): Claire Fuller
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Neffy is a young woman running away from grief and guilt, and the one big mistake that has derailed her career. When she answers the call to volunteer in a controlled vaccine trial, it offers her a way to...

The Memory of Us

The Memory of Us
  • Author(s): Camille Di Maio
  • Location(s): London, Liverpool
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

Julianne Westcott was living the kind of life that other Protestant girls in prewar Liverpool could only dream about: old money, silk ball gowns, and prominent young men lining up to escort her. But when she learns of a...

The Merchant’s Partner

The Merchant’s Partner
  • Author(s): Michael Jecks
  • Location(s): Crediton
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): Medieval

As midwife and healer, Agatha Kyteler is regarded as a witch by her superstitious neighbours in the village of Wefford in Devonshire, yet she has no shortage of callers, from the humblest villein to the most elegant and wealthy...

The Merchant’s House

The Merchant’s House
  • Author(s): Kate Ellis
  • Location(s): Dartmouth, Dorset
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Detective Sergeant (and amateur archaeologist) Wesley Peterson hoped that a transfer from the lively but frantic pace of London to the bucolic river port of Tradmouth would have a positive effect on both his personal and professional lives. But...

The Mercy Step

The Mercy Step
  • Author(s): Marcia Hutchinson
  • Location(s): Bradford
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1960s

Bradford, December 1962. A precocious Mercy makes her reluctant entrance into the world, torn from the warm embrace of her mother’s womb, to a chaotic household that seems to have no place for her. Her siblings do not understand...

The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock

The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock
  • Author(s): Imogen Hermes Gowar
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th Century

SHORLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 One September evening in 1785, the merchant Jonah Hancock finds one of his captains waiting eagerly on his doorstep. He has sold Jonah’s ship for what appears to be a mermaid....

The Mess We’re In

The Mess We’re In
  • Author(s): Annie Macmanus
  • Location(s): Kilburn, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s onwards

I’m a Londoner now. I’m a voice in the noise. I’m ready. It’s the turn of the millennium and, landing in London with nothing but her CD collection and demo tape, Orla Quinn moves into a squalid Kilburn house...

The Midlands Murders Detectives Roy and Roscoe boxset

The Midlands Murders Detectives Roy and Roscoe boxset
  • Author(s): Tony Bassett
  • Location(s): Warwickshire, Worcestershire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present time

Three gripping murder mysteries from the heart of England in a Kindle boxset featuring detectives Sunita Roy and Gavin Roscoe. MURDER ON OXFORD LANE A budding chorister doesn’t return home from practice but his wife doesn’t appear concerned. DS...

The Midnight Guardians

The Midnight Guardians
  • Author(s): Ross Montgomery, David Dean (illustrator)
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Sometimes at the darkest hour, hope shines the brightest… When Col’s childhood imaginary friends come to life, he discovers a world where myths and legends are real. Accompanied by his guardians – a six-foot tiger, a badger in a...

The Midnight Library

The Midnight Library
  • Author(s): Matt Haig
  • Location(s): Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Nora’s life has been going from bad to worse. Then at the stroke of midnight on her last day on earth she finds herself transported to a library. There she is given the chance to undo her regrets and...

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