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The Summer House

The Summer House
  • Author(s): Keri Beevis
  • Location(s): Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller

Mead House was once our childhood home. Despite my fears, I always knew we would have to return to face the demons of our past. Back to the place where it happened, to where, as carefree teenagers, we lost...

The Summer of Going Topless

The Summer of Going Topless
  • Author(s): Liz Davies
  • Location(s): Worcestershire
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Candice Summerville is fast approaching fifty-years-old and wonders if she might be invisible. No one seems to notice her – not really. Heck, she often doesn’t notice herself, except for her monthly scrutiny in the mirror to check on...

The Summer of Second Chances

The Summer of Second Chances
  • Author(s): Madeleine Whickham (Sophie Kinsella)
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Present day

Lottie is about to discover that even when you think you’ve lost everything, hope and romance can be just around the corner . . . It takes time to build your life. To get into a long-term (OK, a...

The Sunshine Man

The Sunshine Man
  • Author(s): Emma Stonex
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

In January 1989, Birdie wakes to the news she’s been waiting eighteen years to hear. Jimmy Maguire, the man who killed her sister, has been freed from jail. Birdie sends her kids to school and then leaves for London...

The Suspect

The Suspect
  • Author(s): Fiona Barton
  • Location(s): Thailand, Hampshire
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When two eighteen-year-old girls go missing in Thailand, their families are thrust into the international spotlight: desperate, bereft, and frantic with worry. What were the girls up to before they disappeared? Journalist Kate Waters always does everything she can...

The Sussex Pond Murder

The Sussex Pond Murder
  • Author(s): Richard Sorapure
  • Location(s): Sussex
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1983

The Sussex Pond Murder centres upon the mysterious death of Michelle Gagneux, a French teacher at St Wilfrid’s Prep School for boys, who is found lifeless in the school pond in the winter of 1983. The story follows Michael...

The Switch Up

The Switch Up
  • Author(s): Katy Cannon
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

WILLA Drama queen Fashion guru Spontaneous Looks like Alice ALICE Bookworm Allergic to fashion Planner Looks like Willa LAX Departure Lounge. Two girls board the same flight to London as complete strangers. When the plane touches down, it’s the...

The Swordfish and the Star

The Swordfish and the Star
  • Author(s): Gavin Knight
  • Location(s): Penwith
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Environmental
  • Era(s): Various

The Penwith Peninsula in Cornwall is where the land ends. In The Swordfish and the Star Gavin Knight takes us into this huddle of grey roofs at the edge of the sea at the beginning of the twenty-first century....

The Tattoo Thief

The Tattoo Thief
  • Author(s): Alison Belsham
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Creepy and compulsive, this is Belsham’s first excursion into crime and it announces the arrival of a fine new voice’ Daily Mail A policeman on his first murder case A tattoo artist with a deadly secret And a twisted...

The Taxidermist’s Daughter

The Taxidermist’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Kate Mosse
  • Location(s): West Sussex
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1900s

Strange goings on in Bosham – near Chichester. Crows, ghosts, weird lady, an even weirder man – the taxidermist, an annual rite at the church, a tumbledown house, a body in the water. Who was the perpetrator? What is...

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