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A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar

A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar
  • Author(s): Suzanne Joinson
  • Location(s): Kashi (Kashgar), London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s and Modern

It is 1923 and Evangeline English, keen lady cyclist, arrives with her sister Lizzie at the ancient Silk Route city of Kashgar to help establish a Christian mission. Lizzie is in thrall to their forceful and unyielding leader Millicent,...

A Lake District Christmas Murder

A Lake District Christmas Murder
  • Author(s): Rebecca Tope
  • Location(s): Glenridding, The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Lake District Mysteries Book 14) As Christmas draws nearer, Simmy Henderson is invited to a party in Glenridding at the heart of the Lake District. However, the festivities are overshadowed by two alarming discoveries: a man’s body in the...

A Lily in the Field

A Lily in the Field
  • Author(s): John Lawton
  • Location(s): Auschwitz/Birkenau, London, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1930s 1940s

Vienna, 1934. Ten-year-old cello prodigy Meret Voytek becomes a pupil of concert pianist Viktor Rosen, a Jew in exile from Germany. The Isle of Man, 1940. An interned Hungarian physicist is recruited for the Manhattan Project in Los Alomos,...

A Long Walk to Wimbledon

A Long Walk to Wimbledon
  • Author(s): H R F Keating
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): Future

HIghgate – Oxford Street – Wimbledon and more…..For London the worst has happened. There have been riots, huge uncontrolled fires, outbreaks of savage looting, artillery battles, mass flights. The great city lies three parts deserted, open to marauding gangs...

A Long Way from Verona

A Long Way from Verona
  • Author(s): Jane Gardam
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

A long way from Verona this certainly is!! No mention of Verona, the book is set in North Yorkshire – quite possibly Redcar – and is narrated through the eyes of Jessica Vye, the thirteen-year-old daughter of a local...

A Means of Escape

A Means of Escape
  • Author(s): Joanna Price
  • Location(s): Glastonbury
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

A grizzly and cold November morning. Detective Sergeant Kate Linton is called on Glastonbury Tor where a young woman has been strangled. Twelve holes are found at the scene, surrounded by wax, evidence of garden flares – the only...

A Mother’s Christmas Wish

A Mother’s Christmas Wish
  • Author(s): Glenda Young
  • Location(s): Ryhope
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Early 1920s

‘I hope this Christmas is better than last year’s.’ Following a scandalous affair, wayward Emma Devaney is sent in disgrace from her home in Ireland to Ryhope, where she will live with her widowed aunt, Bessie Brogan, and help...

A Particular Eye for Villainy

A Particular Eye for Villainy
  • Author(s): Ann Granger
  • Location(s): England, London
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Late 1800s

When Mr Thomas Tapley is found bludgeoned to death in his sitting room, his neighbour Inspector Benjamin Ross of Scotland Yard is immediately summoned. Little is known about the elusive gentleman until Mr Jonathan Tapley, QC, hears of the...

A Perfect Mother

A Perfect Mother
  • Author(s): Katri Skala
  • Location(s): Trieste, Gloucestershire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

During a visit to Trieste in Northern Italy to research his long lost great-grandfather, Jacob meets Charlotte and Jane, and the three are forced to confront their individual and shared histories. Their sense of themselves is challenged and they...

A Place Called Winter

A Place Called Winter
  • Author(s): Patrick Gale
  • Location(s): London, Saskatchewan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Earlier 20th Century

A shy but privileged elder son, Harry Cane has followed convention at every step. Even the beginnings of an illicit, dangerous affair do little to shake the foundations of his muted existence – until the shock of discovery and...

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