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A House for Alice

A House for Alice
  • Author(s): Diana Evans
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

After fifty years in London, Alice wants to live out her days in the land of her birth. Her three children are divided on whether she stays or goes, and in the wake of their father’s death, the imagined...

A House in Pondicherry

A House in Pondicherry
  • Author(s): Lee Langley
  • Location(s): Pondicherry (Puducherry)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

The third in a series of novels set in India. This novel is set in Pondicherry, a tropical Paris flourishing on the shore of the Coromandel coast. At the centre of the novel is the figure of Oriane, a...

A KILLER AMONGST US

A KILLER AMONGST US
  • Author(s): Mark West
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

A night beneath the stars, a few steps away from murder… Jo doesn’t like camping but her trepidation about a guided hiking trip with her husband is offset by the promise of a rewarding pampering afterwards at a luxury...

A Killing At Smugglers Cove

A Killing At Smugglers Cove
  • Author(s): Michelle Salter
  • Location(s): Dawlish, Devon, Exeter, Teignmouth
  • Genre(s): Historical, Cosy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

Wartime secrets, smugglers’ caves, skeletal remains… And the holiday’s only just begun… July 1923 – Iris Woodmore travels to Devon with her friends Percy Baverstock and Millicent Nightingale for her father’s wedding to Katherine Keats. But when Millicent uncovers...

A Lesson in Cruelty

A Lesson in Cruelty
  • Author(s): Harriet Tyce
  • Location(s): Oxford
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

They say you can’t always get what you want. But you can take it. Anna wants a fresh start. She doesn’t believe she deserves it, but after three years behind bars she has finally paid her dues. Most of...

A Lesson in Malice

A Lesson in Malice
  • Author(s): Catherine Kirwan
  • Location(s): Cork City
  • Genre(s): Noir, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A visit to her old university takes an unexpected turn for solicitor Finn Fitzpatrick when she receives an exclusive invitation. She is far from high profile on the legal scene, so why is she on the guestlist for a...

A Letter from Italy

A Letter from Italy
  • Author(s): Rose Alexander
  • Location(s): England, Naples, Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2 / Contemporary

A heartbreaking wartime promise. A family torn apart. A letter that could change everything. 1945. The tiny bundle in her arms barely stirs as she hurries out into the dark street. Remembering Villa Teresa, a thousand miles away in...

A Light Still Burns

A Light Still Burns
  • Author(s): Selim Özdoğan, Ayça Türkoğlu (Translator), Katy Derbyshire (Translator)
  • Location(s): Bremen, Germany, Turkey
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

No. 3 in the Anatolian Trilogy There are three ways to face life: put up with it, fight or flee.’After eight years in Turkey, Gül leaves her native Anatolia and returns to Germany. Reunited with her husband Fuat, she...

A Line in the River

A Line in the River
  • Location(s): The Sudan, Khartoum
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

A moving portrait, part history, part memoir, of Sudan – once the largest, most diverse country in Africa – and its self-destruction. In 1956, Sudan gained Independence from Britain. On the brink of a promising future, it instead descended...

A Long Way from Chicago

A Long Way from Chicago
  • Author(s): Richard Peck
  • Location(s): Illinois
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Historical
  • Era(s): 1929-1942

Every summer, a young brother and sister take the train from their hometown of Chicago to stay with their grandmother in a small town in rural Illinois. A short story cycle with a coming of age theme, A Long...

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