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Unsung Women in Somerset

Unsung Women in Somerset
  • Author(s): Helen Pugh
  • Location(s): Somerset
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Pre-Roman times to modern times

They lived, loved, worked and struggled in Somerset. From pre-Roman to modern times, we meet women with courage, kindness, innovation and even some who smashed the rules! Through 23 chapters, we meet most women through a short story, followed...

Unsung Women in Somerset (Junior Edition)

Unsung Women in Somerset (Junior Edition)
  • Author(s): Helen Pugh
  • Location(s): Somerset
  • Genre(s): Children, Historical
  • Era(s): various

What have women in Somerset got up to over the years? Oh, nothing much. Apart from… – worshipping goddesses – travelling the world – burning stuff – arguing with the queen over swans – writing mega-popular books – fighting...

Until Proven Innocent

Until Proven Innocent
  • Author(s): Nicola Williams
  • Location(s): Peckham, South London
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lee Mitchell #1 When the teenage son of a south London pastor is shot at point-blank range, shockwaves echo through the close-knit community. For barrister Lee Mitchell, born and raised in Peckham, the murder hits close to home. And...

Unveiling Venus

Unveiling Venus
  • Author(s): Sophia Bennett
  • Location(s): London, Venice
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Victorian Era

In the gossip-fuelled world of Victorian London, Persephone Lavelle is the name on everyone’s lips. As Mary’s secret identity is exposed and rumours fly, she flees the scandal by escaping to Venice. Lost among the twisting alleyways and shadowy...

Utopia Avenue

Utopia Avenue
  • Author(s): David Mitchell
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

The imaginative and award-winning author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell returns to spin a web of music and money as a psychedelic British band in the ‘60s finds fame and fallout among such legends as...

V for Victory

V for Victory
  • Author(s): Lissa Evans
  • Location(s): Hampstead
  • Genre(s): Cli-fi, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

It’s late 1944. Hitler’s rockets are slamming down on London with vicious regularity and it’s the coldest winter in living memory. Allied victory is on its way, but it’s bloody well dragging its feet. In a large house next...

Vacant Possession

Vacant Possession
  • Author(s): Hilary Mantel
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Wolf Hall’, a savagely funny tale that revisits the characters from the much-loved ‘Every Day is Mother’s Day’. Muriel Axon is about to re-enter the lives of Colin Sidney, hapless husband, father...

Vampire State of Mind

Vampire State of Mind
  • Author(s): Jane Lovering
  • Location(s): York
  • Genre(s): Paranormal
  • Era(s): Alt-universe present day

First in the series. Jessica Grant knows vampires only too well as she runs the York Council tracker programme. To Jess, vampires are arrogant and far too sexy for their own good, particularly her ex-colleague Sil. But when a...

Vanquishing the Viscount

Vanquishing the Viscount
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Keysian
  • Location(s): Bath
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Regency

Emma Hibbert will never again trust a good-looking man. They offer nothing but heartbreak and humiliation. But her conscience won’t let her abandon a sinfully handsome stranger needing help—even if he ignites an unwelcome passion in her. She soon...

Vice

Vice
  • Author(s): Karen Woods
  • Location(s): Manchester
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Betrayal, family loyalties, secrets: not all gangsters live in the east end. Two families run this part of Manchester: the Johnsons and the Bennetts. With the head of the Johnson family banged up, the Bennetts have made their move....

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