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The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
  • Author(s): Joanna Cannon
  • Location(s): The Midlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1976

England,1976. Mrs Creasy is missing and The Avenue is alive with whispers. As the summer shimmers endlessly on, ten-year-olds Grace and Tilly decide to take matters into their own hands. And as the cul-de-sac starts giving up its secrets,...

Uphill All the Way

Uphill All the Way
  • Author(s): Sue Moorcroft
  • Location(s): Malta, Northamptonshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction

When 51 year old Judith lost Giorgio, she lost her life in Malta – joy, love, her income, her own space, and her circle of friends. She even lost the view from her sun-warmed balcony of the sparkling blue...

The Shadow Year

The Shadow Year
  • Author(s): Hannah Richell
  • Location(s): Glossop, The Peak District
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s and Modern

1980. On a hot summer’s day five friends stumble upon an abandoned cottage hidden deep in the English countryside. Isolated and run-down, it offers a retreat, somewhere they can escape from the world. But as the seasons change, tensions...

A Cold Season

A Cold Season
  • Author(s): Alison Littlewood
  • Location(s): The Peak District, The Pennines
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Horror
  • Era(s): Modern

Cass is building a new life for herself and her young son Ben after the death of her soldier husband Pete, returning to the village where she lived as a child. But their idyllic new home is not what...

A Deadly Thaw

A Deadly Thaw
  • Author(s): Sarah Ward
  • Location(s): Derbyshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

2004: In Bampton, Derbyshire, Lena Fisher is arrested for suffocating her husband, Andrew. Spring 2016: A year after Lena’s release from prison, Andrew is found murdered in a disused mortuary. Who was the man Lena killed twelve years ago...

Before You Die

Before You Die
  • Author(s): Samantha Hayes
  • Location(s): Warwickshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

D.I. Lorraine Fisher returns to her home town, Radcote, in fictional South Warwickshire, to stay with separated sister Jo and her nephew Freddie. The town has seen a spate of teenage suicides and when young homeless man, Dean, complete with...

Christmas at the Beach Hut

Christmas at the Beach Hut
  • Author(s): Veronica Henry
  • Location(s): Devon, Warwickshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Especially Lizzy Kingham. But this year, she is feeling unloved and underappreciated by her family. The present-buying, decorating and food shopping have all been left to her. So she wonders . . . what would happen if she ran...

Double Sunset

Double Sunset
  • Author(s): Kristin Smith
  • Location(s): Staffordshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern and 19th Century

Ava Banks spends the summer on Rudyard Lake in England. While contemplating how her life has changed in the past year, she develops a strange connection with love on the prairie in the 1800’s through a series of dreams....

Living Proof

Living Proof
  • Author(s): John Harvey
  • Location(s): Nottinghamshire
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

A book and film convention in Nottingham. An American writer of a lesbian series is attacked by feminists and receives threats: prostitutes are under attack….

Marriage Material

Marriage Material
  • Author(s): Sathnam Sanghera
  • Location(s): Wolverhampton
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

If you’ve approached Bains Stores recently, you’d be forgiven for hesitating on doing so. A prominent window advert for a discontinued chocolate bar suggests the shop may have closed in 1994. The security shutters are stuck a quarter-open, adding...

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