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Becoming Meg

Becoming Meg
  • Author(s): Jane Stephenson
  • Location(s): The North East (England)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction
  • Era(s): pre WW2, WW2, post WW2

Meg was born at the start of the Great Depression. Surrounded by poverty and unemployment she grew up in the gritty reality of a butcher’s shop in a pit village in the North East of England. The youngest child,...

Bella Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall 1818-1820

Bella Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall 1818-1820
  • Author(s): Winston Graham
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 19th Century

Bella Poldark is the twelfth and final novel in Winston Graham’s sweeping series of Cornwall, Poldark. Cornwall 1818. We continue the tale of Ross and Demelza; of the wayward Valentine Warleggan, whose existence keeps open the old wounds of the...

Bellies

Bellies
  • Author(s): Nicola Dinan
  • Location(s): Cologne (Köln), Kuala Lumpur, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It begins as your typical boy meets boy. Tom and Ming meet on a night out at university and fall hard for each other. It’s not long before they are planning a future and building a life. Then Ming...

Bethnal Green

Bethnal Green
  • Author(s): Amélie Skoda
  • Location(s): Bethnal Green, London, Penang
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Penang, 1971. When Suyin is offered the opportunity of a lifetime – a place as a trainee nurse in London’s Bethnal Green hospital – she jumps at the chance to leave her job as a seamstress and unite with...

Birdsong

Birdsong
  • Author(s): Sebastian Faulks
  • Location(s): France, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1910-1970

Set before and during the great war, Birdsong captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale. It is the story of Stephen, a young Englishman, who arrives in Amiens in 1910. Over the...

Black Chalk

Black Chalk
  • Author(s): Christopher J Yates
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Oxford
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A compulsively readable psychological thriller set in New York and at Oxford University, in which a group of six students play an elaborate game of dares and consequences, with tragic results One game. Six students. Five survivors. It was...

Black Rabbit Hall

Black Rabbit Hall
  • Author(s): Eve Chase
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary, back to 1960s

The four Alton children spend the hot Cornish summer playing on sun-baked lawns or building dens in the dark woods. Endless days of laughter and fun. But no one foresees the storm that brings it all to a tragic...

Blackberry Wine

Blackberry Wine
  • Author(s): Joanne Harris
  • Location(s): England, France
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Jay Mackintosh has the privilege of spending time with Jackapple Joe who introduces him to the simple wisdom and magic of life in the country, in Kirby Monckton. Joe disappears one Autumn without trace and Jay makes an impulse...

Bleak House

Bleak House
  • Author(s): Charles Dickens
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1800s

It is at once a complex mystery story that fully engages the reader in the work of detection, and an unforgettable indictment of an indifferent society. Its representations of a great city’s underworld, and of the law’s corruption and...

Blind Side

Blind Side
  • Author(s): Jennie Ensor
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Suspense
  • Era(s): 2005 in the months before and after 7/7

Can you ever truly know someone? And what if you suspect the unthinkable? London, five months before 7/7. Georgie, a young woman wary of relationships after previous heartbreak, gives in and agrees to sleep with close friend Julian. She’s...

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