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Clapham LIghts

Clapham LIghts
  • Author(s): Tom Canty
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s/Modern

Craig Tennant hates his job as an estate agent, loves a girl who has a boyfriend and lives in a London flat he can’t afford with a university friend he wishes he’d never met. That friend is Mark Hunter,...

Clever Girl

Clever Girl
  • Author(s): Tessa Hadley
  • Location(s): Bristol
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s onwards

It follows the story of Stella, from her childhood as the daughter of a single mother in a Bristol bedsit in the 1960s into the mysterious shallows of her middle age. The story is full of drama – violent...

Cold Black

Cold Black
  • Author(s): Alex Shaw
  • Location(s): Dubai, Kyiv, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Former SAS trooper Aidan Snow returns in the thrilling follow up to the Kindle bestseller ‘Hetman’. Now an MI6 operative, Snow must locate & rescue an old SAS colleague before an Al-Qaeda cell can carry out acts of unprecedented...

Conversations with Spirits

Conversations with Spirits
  • Author(s): E O Higgins
  • Location(s): Broadstairs
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

December, 1917. The Great War is rampaging through Europe – yet Trelawney Hart has scarcely noticed. The arch-sceptic and former child prodigy has lost his way and now ekes out a lonely existence, taking his only comfort from the...

Cousins

Cousins
  • Author(s): Salley Vickers
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

How much can love ask of us? Brilliant and mercurial Will Tye suffers a life changing accident. The terrible event ripples through three generations of the complex and eccentric Tye family, bringing to light old tragedies and dangerous secrets....

Cragside

Cragside
  • Author(s): LJ Ross
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Are you afraid of the dark..? After his climactic battle with notorious serial killer The Hacker, DCI Ryan is spending the summer with his fiancée within the grounds of Cragside, a spectacular Bavarian-style mansion surrounded by acres of woodland....

Crosscurrents

Crosscurrents
  • Author(s): Jane Jackson
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1800s

Appalled by the number of deaths caused by exploding steam boilers, Santo Julian is developing an entirely new and safe engine. His backer is Richard Vaughan, heir to Frederick Tregarron, owner of Gillyvean estate. Desperate to prove the viability...

Crossed Bones

Crossed Bones
  • Author(s): Jane Johnson
  • Location(s): Morocco, Penzance
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern , 1620s

This is a fictional account of a pirate raid which occured off of the Cornish coastline in the 1600s, but is actually based on historical facts that have been meticulously researched. 60 villagers are captured and stolen off to...

D Is For Death

D Is For Death
  • Author(s): Harriet F Townson
  • Location(s): The West End
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Cozy Mystery, Historical
  • Era(s): 1935

1935. Dora’son the first train to London, having smuggled herself out of the house in the middle of the night to escape her impending marriage. But unluckily for her, Dora’s fiance is more persistent than most and follows. As...

Daisy Darker

Daisy Darker
  • Author(s): Alice Feeney
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Daisy Darker’s family were as dark as dark can be, when one of them died all of them lied and pretended not to see . . . Daisy Darker is arriving at her grandmother’s house for her eightieth birthday....

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