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Yours is Mine

Yours is Mine
  • Author(s): Amy Bird
  • Location(s): Kielder, London, The North East (England)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Kate, is mourning her Father’s death. She agrees to an identity exchange, seemingly as part of a PhD study, and another girl moves to Kielder in Northumberland. Beware Anna, is all that can be said!

Against the Tide

Against the Tide
  • Author(s): Theresa Tomlinson
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Various

Theresa Tomlinson has established herself as a talented writer of historical fiction, particularly when pinpointing her home territory on the NE coast of England. Here in one volume are three of her most gripping novels in which she describes...

Into the Water

Into the Water
  • Author(s): Paula Hawkins
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In the last days before her death, Nel called her sister. Jules didn’t pick up the phone, ignoring her plea for help. Now Nel is dead. They say she jumped. And Jules has been dragged back to the one...

The Unlikely Pilgramage of Harold Fry

The Unlikely Pilgramage of Harold Fry
  • Author(s): Rachel Joyce
  • Location(s): Northumberland, Devon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Retired couple, Harold and Maureen, are living in Devon, when something happens that will change their future. Aletter arrives for Harold from a former colleague of his at the brewery, Queenie Hennessy. He takes his reply to the postbox...

Wife in the North

Wife in the North
  • Author(s): Judith O'Reilly
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Maybe hormones ate her brain. How else did Judith’s husband persuade her to give up her career and move from her beloved London to Northumberland with two toddlers in tow? Pregnant with number 3 Judith is about to discover...

100 Days on Holy Island. A Writer’s Exile.

100 Days on Holy Island.  A Writer’s Exile.
  • Author(s): Peter Mortimer
  • Location(s): Lindisfarne (Holy Island)
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2002

A quirky, moving account of the author’s self-imposed exile to Holy Island, a remote island off the Northumberland coast, cut off from the mainland twice a day. Peter Mortimer is a playwright and poet, and this is his personal...

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 Time for Swords

A Time for Swords
  • Author(s): Matthew Harffy
  • Location(s): Northumberland, Lindisfarne (Holy Island)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 790s AD

When the Vikings attack, a novice monk’s life is changed forever in Matthew Harffy’s new historical adventure. Lindisfarne, AD793. There had been portents – famine, whirlwinds, lightning from clear skies, serpents seen flying through the air. But when the...

Alice Teale is Missing

Alice Teale is Missing
  • Author(s): H A Linskey
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Noir
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Howard Linskey writing as H A Linskey. Alice Teale walked out of school at the end of a bright spring day. She’s not been seen since. Alice was popular and well-liked, and her boyfriend, friends and family are desperate...

Belsay

Belsay
  • Author(s): LJ Ross
  • Location(s): Northumberland, The North East (England)
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(The DCI Ryan Mysteries Book 23) After a long year of crime-fighting, DCI Ryan and his team are looking forward to a peaceful Christmas filled with festive treats – including the occasional turkey stottie, or three. To celebrate a...

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