- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Various, modern
Lamorna Cove – a tiny bay in Cornwall, picturesque, unspoilt. A hundred years ago it was the haunt of a colony of artists. Today, Mel Pentreath hopes it is a place where she can escape the pain of her...
- Location(s): Ukraine, Illinois
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Modern looking back to 1920s/30s
A share of proceeds will be donated to DEC’s Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal. In the 1930s, Stalin’s activists marched through the Soviet Union, espousing the greatness of collective farming. It was the first step in creating a man-made famine that,...
- Location(s): York
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 16th Century
One hot day in Elizabethan York, young Nell Appleby is trapped in a wooden chest, and a horror of the stifling dark – and of the man who trapped her – dogs her for the rest of her life....
- Location(s): South Carolina
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
When Angel sets fire to her childhood home, it isn’t the end-it’s the beginning. Left with nothing but a few memories in her pocket, Angel escapes into the fields of tobacco, the only place she has ever felt safe....
- Location(s): Manchester, World
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Modern
He took her to dinner: that was annoying He slept with her: that was hurtful He bought new underwear to impress her: quite frankly astounding He left me to bloody wash his FILTHY WHORING PANTS: INFURIATING! After twenty-four years...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Wealthy and privileged, Alex has an easy path to success in the Parisian elite his father mingles with. But the two have never seen eye to eye. Desperate to escape the increasingly suffocating atmosphere of their apartment, Alex seeks...
- Location(s): Guyana, Jamaica, Martinique, Suriname
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1960s
In 1960, Dr Eric Williams, the first Prime Minister of independent Trinidad, invited V. S. Naipaul to revisit his native country and record his impressions. In this classic of modern travel writing he created a deft and remarkably prescient...
- Location(s): Dorset
- Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Midsummer, the Dorset coast In the shadows of an ancient wood, guests gather for the opening weekend of The Manor: a beautiful new countryside retreat. But under the burning midsummer sun, darkness stirs. Old friends and enemies circulate among...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 1946
Winter 1946 One cold dark night, as a devastated London shivers through the transition to post-war life, a young nurse goes missing from the South London Hospital for Women & Children. Her body is discovered hours later behind a...
- Location(s): London, Wiltshire
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): 1995 and Current
She’s there to keep your baby safe… Or is she? I’ve always wanted a baby, more than anything. I never meant to do it alone, but it’ll be a fresh start. I can finally leave the past behind me....
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