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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...

A Private Business

A Private Business
  • Author(s): Barbara Nadel
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Barbara Nadel brings us a new and original pair of detectives in poverty-stricken Stratford East, whose inhabitants are cynical about any possible improvements the Olympic Park can make to their wretched lives. Here another set of Londoners is impelled...

A Seaside Affair

A Seaside Affair
  • Author(s): Fern Britton
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

When the residents of the Cornish seaside town of Trevay discover that their much-loved theatre is about to be taken over by coffee chain, Café au Lait, they are up in arms. It is up to Penny Leighton, hotshot...

A Sister for Margot

A Sister for Margot
  • Author(s): Emma Clark Lam
  • Location(s): England, Ibiza
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2 and Modern

In a Portsmouth theatre, with Hitler’s bombs raining down, the actress Maud falls in love with a young naval officer. She dreams however of seeing her name in lights and part of her resists getting embroiled in an affair....

A Song of Isolation

A Song of Isolation
  • Author(s): Michael J Malone
  • Location(s): Bordeaux, London, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Film star Amelie Hart is the darling of the silver screen, appearing on the front pages of every newspaper. But at the peak of her fame she throws it all away for a regular guy with an ordinary job....

A Stone’s Throw

A Stone’s Throw
  • Author(s): Fiona Shaw
  • Location(s): England, Kenya
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1940s onwards

A multi-layered story of three generations of one family and is set in England and Kenya during and after the Second World War. Meg Brya is sailing to Kenya to be with her fiance. On the boat ride out...

A Stranger in Mayfair

A Stranger in Mayfair
  • Author(s): Charles Finch
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): Late 1800s

Lenox is now married to Lady Jane and is an MP in the House of Commons. Ludovic Starling, a fellow MP, has asked Lenox to investigate the murder of one of his footman.

A Village in the Valley (3 in Allways Trilogy)

A Village in the Valley (3 in Allways Trilogy)
  • Author(s): Beverley Nichols
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

This reprint of the third book in Nichols’ “Allways Trilogy” contains a new foreword by Bryan Connon, Beverley Nichols’ biographer. Set in the English countryside, the hilarious memoir is as much about the author’s love for plants as it...

A Vintage Affair

A Vintage Affair
  • Author(s): Isabel Wolff
  • Location(s): England, Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Do fairytale dresses bring fairytale endings? Every dress has a history, so does Phoebe… Phoebe always dreamt of opening her own vintage dress shop. She imagined every detail, from the Vivienne Westwood bustiers hanging next to satin gowns, to...

A Woman of Courage

A Woman of Courage
  • Author(s): Rita Bradshaw
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Sunderland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Late 19th Century

Survival means fighting back. It’s 1890, and Josie Gray is an innocent and beautiful fifteen-year old when Adam McGuigan, the youngest son of a dangerous and influential crime family spots her singing in a Sunderland public house. Adam is...

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