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The Pillars of the Earth

The Pillars of the Earth
  • Author(s): Ken Follett
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 12th Century

The Kingsbridge Novels Book 1 A Mason with a Dream It is 1135 and civil war, famine and religious strife abound. With his family on the verge of starvation, mason Tom Builder dreams of the day that he can...

The Playground Murders

The Playground Murders
  • Author(s): Lesley Thomson
  • Location(s): West London, The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980 & 2018

Forty years ago, in the dark of the playground, two children’s lives were changed for ever. Stella Darnell is a cleaner. But when she isn’t tackling dust and dirt and restoring order to chaos, Stella solves murders. Her latest...

The Poison Tree

The Poison Tree
  • Author(s): Erin Kelly
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1990s

I have given up so much and done so many terrible things already for the sake of my family that I can only keep going. I do not know what is going to happen to us. I am frightened,...

The Portrait Artist

The Portrait Artist
  • Author(s): Dani Heywood-Lonsdale
  • Location(s): London, Oxford
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 19th Century

One morning in 1890, a painting wrapped in brown paper appears on the steps of the National Gallery and causes a sensation. It’s clearly by Timothy Ponden-Hall, whose paintings were celebrated and debated not just for their beauty, but...

The Postcard

The Postcard
  • Author(s): Fern Britton
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Secrets. Sisters. The summer that changed everything . . . Life in the Cornish village of Pendruggan isn’t always picture perfect. Penny Leighton has never told anyone why she’s estranged from her mother and sister. For years she’s kept...

The Postcard

The Postcard
  • Author(s): Leah Fleming
  • Location(s): London, Australia
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s and 2002

2002, Australia. When Melissa discovers a postcard addressed to ‘Desmond’ among her recently deceased father’s effects, she is determined to discover this person’s identity and his relationship to her father. She soon embarks on a journey that will take...

The Posthumous Adventures of Harry Whittaker

The Posthumous Adventures of Harry Whittaker
  • Author(s): Bobbie Darbyshire
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When Harry Whittaker, much loved star of stage and screen, dies suddenly of a heart attack, he finds himself still in this world. Trapped in a bizarre afterlife, he struggles to free himself. Meanwhile, his estranged son Richard is...

The Postman Poet

The Postman Poet
  • Author(s): Liz Shakespeare
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th century

As a young boy, Edward Capern is desperate to read and write, but has to work an eighty-hour week in Barnstaple’s lace factory. As a man, he dreams of writing poetry and building a fairer society, but these aspirations...

The Postscript Murders

The Postscript Murders
  • Author(s): Elly Griffiths
  • Location(s): West Sussex, Aberdeen, Shoreham
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

PS: Thanks for the murders. The death of a ninety-year-old woman with a heart condition should absolutely not be suspicious. DS Harbinder Kaur certainly sees nothing to concern her in carer Natalka’s account of Peggy Smith’s death. But when...

The Potato Factory

The Potato Factory
  • Author(s): Bryce Courtenay
  • Location(s): Hobart, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1800s

Ikey Solomon is in the business of thieving and he’s very good at it. Ikey’s partner in crime is his mistress, the forthright Mary Abacus, until misfortune befalls them. They are parted and each must make the harsh journey...

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