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The Sandpit

The Sandpit
  • Author(s): Nicholas Shakespeare
  • Location(s): Oxford
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When John Dyer returns to Oxford from Brazil with his young son, he doesn’t expect to find them both in danger. Every day is the same. He drops Leandro at his smart prep school and walks to the library...

The Scarlet Forest

The Scarlet Forest
  • Author(s): A E Chandler
  • Location(s): Nottinghamshire
  • Era(s): Medieval

You are invited underneath the great greenwood tree to hear how a young man became a hero, and a hero became a legend. When Robin takes a shortcut through Sherwood Forest, the path he chooses leads not to Nottingham’s...

The School of Night

The School of Night
  • Author(s): Karl Ove Knausgaard, Martin Aitken (translator)
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

London. 1985. A city rife with possibility and desire. One young man who wants it all. Kristian Hadeland, newly arrived in the city, seethes with ambition and contempt. His family in Norway never understood him; his fellow photography students...

The Schoolhouse

The Schoolhouse
  • Author(s): Sophie Ward
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s and current

‘The Schoolhouse is taut, gripping and intensely moving right until the very last page. I truly couldn’t put Sophie Ward’s beautifully written novel down’ Susannah Wise, author of This Fragile Earth Isobel lives an isolated life in North London,...

The Sea Gate

The Sea Gate
  • Author(s): Jane Johnson
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One house, two women, a lifetime of secrets… Following the death of her mother, Becky begins the sad task of sorting through her empty flat. Starting with the letters piling up on the doormat, she finds an envelope post-marked...

The Seamstress Of Warsaw

The Seamstress Of Warsaw
  • Author(s): Rebecca Mascull
  • Location(s): Poland, London, Warsaw
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Daring, tragic, haunting, and unforgettable – Mascull is a superb writer. – Louisa Treger , author of The Dragon Lady 1940 London A man learns a shocking truth about his past. Warsaw A mother writes a diary as the...

The Search Party

The Search Party
  • Author(s): Hannah Richell
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Five old friends. One glamping weekend. A storm that will change everything. Max and Annie Kingsley have left the London rat race to set up a glamping site in the wilds of Cornwall. They invite old university friends –...

The Second Chance Tea Shop

The Second Chance Tea Shop
  • Author(s): Fay Keenan
  • Location(s): Somerset
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Following the tragic death of her beloved husband, Anna Hemingway decides it’s time for a fresh start. So Anna and her three-year-old daughter Ellie move to a picture-perfect cottage in the beautiful village of Little Somerby in Somerset, and...

The Second Cup

The Second Cup
  • Author(s): Sarah Marie Graye
  • Location(s): London, Berkhamsted, Blackpool, Manchester
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Would your life unravel if someone you knew committed suicide? Theirs did. Faye’s heart still belongs to her first love, Jack. She knows he might have moved on, but when she decides to track him down, nothing prepares her...

The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley

The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley
  • Author(s): Sean Lusk
  • Location(s): The City of London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1750s

Leadenhall Street, London, 1754. Raised amongst the cogs and springs of his father’s workshop, Zachary Cloudesley has grown up surrounded by strange and enchanting clockwork automata. He is a happy child, beloved by his father Abel and the workmen...

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