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One Mallorcan Summer

One Mallorcan Summer
  • Author(s): Elise Darcy
  • Location(s): Mallorca, Southwold
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century / present

One Mallorcan Summer. Two heart-rending secrets. Three lives changed forever. When Clara and Ralph meet again by chance, forty years have passed since they were teenage sweethearts and a tragedy tore them apart. Both reeling from a recent event...

Portrait of the Spy as a Young Man

Portrait of the Spy as a Young Man
  • Author(s): Edward Wilson
  • Location(s): Massif Central, Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2 and present

1941: a teenage William Catesby leaves Cambridge to join the army and support the war effort. Parachuted into Occupied France as an SOE officer, he witnesses tragedies and remarkable feats of bravery during the French Resistance. 2014: now in...

Ready Or Not

Ready Or Not
  • Author(s): Ste Sharp
  • Location(s): Felixstowe
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1990s

Luke Redfern is drawn into another life or death adventure, forcing him to make some big decisions. Christmas 1996, and Luke is living in London, gigging with his band, Beachhead. Britpop is in full swing and things are going...

Room 119 – The Whitby Trader

Room 119 – The Whitby Trader
  • Author(s): T F Lince
  • Location(s): Whitby, London, North Yorkshire, Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern day

High-flying trader Dean Harrison has it all – the London penthouse apartment; the fast car; the beautiful wife. But when the threads of Dean’s life start to unravel, they do so with alarming speed. Following the advice of a...

Seahurst

Seahurst
  • Author(s): S A Harris
  • Location(s): Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Paranormal
  • Era(s): Present day

A gripping contemporary ghost story set on the Suffolk coast. Evie Meyer and her son Alfie flee from her abusive partner Seth in Toronto to spend New Year with her half-brother Luke at their late father’s summer home on...

Spilt Milk

Spilt Milk
  • Author(s): Amanda Hodgkinson
  • Location(s): Suffolk, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): First half 20th Century

1913. Unmarried sisters Nellie and Vivian Marsh live an impoverished existence in a tiny cottage on the banks of the Little River in Suffolk. Their life is quiet and predictable, until a sudden flood throws up a strange fish...

The Atomics

The Atomics
  • Author(s): Paul Maunder
  • Location(s): Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Longlisted for the Caledonia Novel Award Midsummer, 1968. When Frank Banner and his wife Gail move to the rural Suffolk coast to work at a newly built nuclear power station, they are hoping to leave the violence and pain...

The Buried Crown

The Buried Crown
  • Author(s): Ally Sherrick
  • Location(s): London, Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): WW2

An exciting World War II adventure from acclaimed author Ally Sherrick – blending her trademark rip-roaring historical storytelling with mythology and magic! It’s World War II and Britain is on the brink of invasion. Londoner George has been sent...

The Butterfly Room

The Butterfly Room
  • Author(s): Lucinda Riley
  • Location(s): Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s, contemporary

Posy Montague is approaching her seventieth birthday. Still living in her beautiful family home, Admiral House, set in the glorious Suffolk countryside where she spent her own idyllic childhood catching butterflies with her beloved father, and raised her own...

The Crime Writer

The Crime Writer
  • Author(s): Jill Dawson
  • Location(s): Earl Soham
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

In 1964, the eccentric American novelist Patricia Highsmith is hiding out in a cottage in Suffolk, to concentrate on her writing and escape her fans. She has another motive too – a secret romance with a married lover based...

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