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Emma

Emma
  • Author(s): Jane Austen
  • Location(s): Surrey
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Early 1800s

Quick-witted, beautiful, headstrong and rich, Emma Woodhouse is inordinately fond of match-making select inhabitants of the village of Highbury, yet aloof and oblivious as to the question of whom she herself might marry. This paradox multiplies the intrigues and...

Empty Vessels

Empty Vessels
  • Author(s): Marina Pascoe
  • Location(s): Falmouth
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

Meet Inspector George Bartlett and Constable Archibald Boase in their first investigation together. In the closing months of 1921, Bartlett and Boase have a missing girl on their Falmouth patch. Before long they find themselves drawn into a murder...

England Expects

England Expects
  • Author(s): Sara Sheridan
  • Location(s): Brighton, Cambridge, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

1953, Brighton, London and Cambridge. When sports hack Joey Gillingham is murdered in a barber’s chair the reason he is in Brighton for the day is unclear. His body is whisked away mysteriously and ex-Secret Service backroom girl Mirabelle...

England’s Lane

England’s Lane
  • Author(s): Joseph Connolly
  • Location(s): England, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s, 1960s

Jim and Milly. Stan and Jane. Jonathan and Fiona. Winter, 1959. Three married couples: each living in England’s Lane, each with an only child, and each attending to family, and their livelihoods – the ironmonger, the sweetshop and the...

England, England

England, England
  • Author(s): Julian Barnes
  • Location(s): England, Isle of Wight
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Novella
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

What constitutes England and Englishness? The plot revolves around a businessman’s attempt to create a legacy by creating a sort of mini-England on the Isle of Wight (The Island). A Utopia-cum-Dystopia what is “englishness” – Robin Hood? Fish and...

Engleby

Engleby
  • Author(s): Sebastian Faulks
  • Location(s): Cambridge
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Mike Engleby has a secret… This is the story of Mike Engleby, a working-class boy who wins a place at an esteemed English university. But with the disappearance of Jennifer, the undergraduate Engleby admires from afar, the story turns...

Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
  • Author(s): Balli Kaur Jaswal
  • Location(s): Southall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Ever Rest

Ever Rest
  • Author(s): Roz Morris
  • Location(s): Nepal, London, Mount Everest, Shropshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s and 2014

Twenty years ago, Hugo and Ash were on top of the world. As the acclaimed rock band Ashbirds they were poised for superstardom. Then Ash went missing, lost in a mountaineering accident, and the lives of Hugo and everyone...

Every Spy a Traitor

Every Spy a Traitor
  • Author(s): Alex Gerlis
  • Location(s): London, Germany, Moscow, Paris
  • Genre(s): Espionage
  • Era(s): late 1930s

Trust no one. Suspect everyone. It’s 1937. Fear and suspicion stalk the Continent. A million have died in Stalin’s Great Purge and the Nazi terror grips Germany. But British intelligence is still trying to work out who the enemy...

Everyone Lies

Everyone Lies
  • Author(s): A D Garrett
  • Location(s): Manchester
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

DI Kate Simms is on the fast track to nowhere. Five years ago she helped a colleague when she shouldn’t have. She’s been clawing her way back from a demotion ever since. Professor Nick Fennimore is a failed genetics...

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