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The Tunnels Below

The Tunnels Below
  • Author(s): Nadine Wild-Palmer
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

How do you find your way out of the dark? On her twelfth birthday, the last thing Cecilia expected was to find herself lost in a labyrinth of tunnels beneath London. Afraid, alone, but determined, she sets to work...

The Tuppenny Child

The Tuppenny Child
  • Author(s): Glenda Young
  • Location(s): Ryhope, Sunderland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1919

‘She’s not worth more than tuppence, that child!’ Those are the words that haunt Sadie Linthorpe. She is the talk of Ryhope when she arrives there, aged seventeen, alone, seeking work and a home in the pit village. But...

The Turning of the Tide

The Turning of the Tide
  • Author(s): Liz Shakespeare
  • Location(s): Bideford, Clovelly
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th century

Devon, 1871 Young and vulnerable Selina Burman from Clovelly and her two young children are confined in the harsh environment of Bideford Workhouse. She can only observe them from a distance and despairs of a better future. Her prospects...

The Turning Point

The Turning Point
  • Author(s): Freya North
  • Location(s): Norfolk, British Columbia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): present day

Life is for living and taking chances. Two single parents meet by chance and a spark is ignited but they live continents apart. They are made for each other but they have to take risks, take chances with family...

The Twelve Days of Christmas

The Twelve Days of Christmas
  • Author(s): Jan Brett (illustrator)
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Mythology

“On the first day of Christmas My true love gave to me A partridge in a pear tree.” For many centuries young and old alike have been singing about the maids a-milking, the lords a-leaping, and a partridge in...

The Twisted Sword (Poldark Book 11)

The Twisted Sword (Poldark Book 11)
  • Author(s): Winston Graham
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1815

Cornwall 1815. Demelza sees a horseman riding down the valley and senses disruption to the domestic contentment she has fought so hard to achieve. For Ross has little option but to accept the summons – and travel to Paris...

The Twisted Threads of Polly Freeman

The Twisted Threads of Polly Freeman
  • Author(s): Pippa Goodhart
  • Location(s): Cheshire
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1838

It’s 1838. Polly is sent from a London workhouse to Quarry Bank Cotton Mill. The family who own Quarry Bank care for their apprentice children better than most mills do. But Polly is owned by the mill just as...

The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

The Two Lives of Lydia Bird
  • Author(s): Josie Silver
  • Location(s): Paris, Croatia, London, Los Angeles, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lydia and Freddie. Freddie and Lydia. They’d been together for more than a decade, and Lydia thought their love was indestructible. But she was wrong. On her twenty-eighth birthday, Freddie died in a car accident. So now it’s just...

The Two Roberts

The Two Roberts
  • Author(s): Damian Barr
  • Location(s): Glasgow, Ayrshire, England, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s onwards

Scotland, 1933. Bobby MacBryde is on his way. After years grafting at Lees Boot Factory, he’s off to the Glasgow School of Art, to his future. On his first day he will meet another Robert, a quiet man with...

The Tyranny of Lost Things

The Tyranny of Lost Things
  • Author(s): Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When she rents a room in the house she lived in as a child, Harmony hopes she’ll uncover the source of her nightmares about that lost time. As the London riots explode in the streets, the hot summers of...

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