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The Things She Owned

The Things She Owned
  • Author(s): Katherine Tamiko Arguile
  • Location(s): Okinawa, London, Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Contemporary, 1940s-50s

Years after the death of her cruel and complicated mother, Erika is still surrounded by the things she left behind: an onigiri basket, a Wedgwood tea set, a knotted ring from Okinawa. Against her Japanese family’s wishes, Erika has...

The Things We Never Said

The Things We Never Said
  • Author(s): Susan Elliot Wright
  • Location(s): Sheffield
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960 and 2008/9

The past shapes us all. But what happens when it hides a secret that changes everything? In 1964, Maggie wakes to find herself in a mental asylum, with no idea who she is or how she got there. Remnants...

The Thrones Murders

The Thrones Murders
  • Author(s): Glen Gormley
  • Location(s): Barnsley, Northern Ireland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present

Shane’s Castle Co. Antrim Northern Ireland, one of the locations used to film the hugely popular Game of Thrones series. The filming has finished and indeed the show has ended but one morning a body is found in the...

The Tigers in the Tower

The Tigers in the Tower
  • Author(s): Julia Golding
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Georgian Era

“A Little Princess with tigers! Orphan and outcast Sahira Clive is a brave and plucky heroine with a brightly burning heart. I was rooting for her all the way to the end of this thrilling and thought-provoking adventure.” Ally...

The Trial of Elizabeth Cree

The Trial of Elizabeth Cree
  • Author(s): Peter Ackroyd
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1880s

The year is 1880, the setting London’s poor and dangerous Limehouse district, home to immigrants and criminals. A series of brutal murders has occurred, and, as Ackroyd leads us down London’s dark streets, the sense of time and place...

The Trip

The Trip
  • Author(s): Sarah Linley
  • Location(s): Thailand, Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

It should have been paradise. But it turned into hell… It was supposed to be the perfect trip. Four friends, fresh out of university, backpacking around Thailand. But among the sun, sea and sand, something went horribly wrong… In...

The Trouble With Mrs Montgomery Hurst

The Trouble With Mrs Montgomery Hurst
  • Author(s): Katie Lumsden
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1840s

A single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife . . . But why would he choose her? Summer 1841. It is marriage season in the county of Wickenshire, and Miss Amelia...

The Troubled Deep

The Troubled Deep
  • Author(s): Rob Parker
  • Location(s): Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Cam Killick Norfolk Mysteries #1 A gripping, propulsive and atmospheric crime thriller perfect for fans of Ann Cleeves, Peter James and Elly Griffiths. Your new Norfolk crime obsession starts here… Nobody ever knew what happened to the Brindleys. One...

The Truants

The Truants
  • Author(s): Kate Weinberg
  • Location(s): East Anglia
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction

People disappear when they most want to be seen. Jess Walker, middle child of a middle class family, has perfected the art of vanishing in plain sight. But when she arrives at a concrete university campus under flat, grey,...

The Tumbling Girl

The Tumbling Girl
  • Author(s): Bridget Walsh
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1870s

1876, Victorian London. Minnie Ward, a feisty scriptwriter for the Variety Palace Music Hall, is devastated when her best friend is found brutally murdered. She enlists the help of private detective Albert Easterbrook to help her find justice.   Together...

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