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From Venice with Love

From Venice with Love
  • Author(s): Rosanna Ley
  • Location(s): Venice, Dorset, Lisbon, Prague
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The bestselling author of The Lemon Tree Hotel returns with an enchanting new holiday read about family bonds and following your heart, wherever it might take you… With her marriage in danger of falling apart, Joanna returns home to...

Kat Wolfe Investigates

Kat Wolfe Investigates
  • Location(s): Dorset
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For ages 9-11. Join brave Kat Wolfe and her animal sidekicks in this first mysterious adventure filled with friendship, freedom and a fierce wild cat! Kat Wolfe loves her new home in idyllic Bluebell Bay, especially as it comes...

Lightning Mary

Lightning Mary
  • Author(s): Anthea Simmons
  • Location(s): Dorset
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th / 19th century

Winner of the middle grade STEAM Book Prize Ordinary is what most people are and I am not. I am not ordinary at all. I am a scientist. One stormy night, a group of villagers are struck by lightning....

Moonlight Over Muddleford Cove

Moonlight Over Muddleford Cove
  • Author(s): Kim Nash
  • Location(s): Muddleford, Dorset
  • Genre(s): Comedy, Romance
  • Era(s): Now

When thirty-four-year-old Nellie Wagstaff loses her job and discovers her fiancé is a cheating scumbag in a single day, she feels like the world has come crashing down. And that’s before the solicitor’s letter, along with a request to...

No Turning Back

No Turning Back
  • Author(s): Susan Lewis
  • Location(s): Dorset
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Eva Montgomery is at the peak of her career when she is viciously attacked by a stalker. While still traumatised, she makes the biggest mistake of her life – one she can never turn back from. Sixteen years later,...

One Young Fool in Dorset

One Young Fool in Dorset
  • Author(s): Victoria Twead
  • Location(s): Dorset
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Humour
  • Era(s): 1960s, 1970s

So how did it all begin? What happened before Victoria met Joe and they embarked on their crazy life in Spain? This light, airy and charming story is the delightful prequel to Victoria Twead’s Old Fools series. Her childhood...

Our Holiday

Our Holiday
  • Author(s): Louise Candlish
  • Location(s): Studland
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Pine Ridge is fictitious but partially based on Studland in Dorset. THERE’S TROUBLE IN PARADISE Charlotte and Perry have owned their clifftop holiday home in Pine Ridge for years. They’ve worked hard for it – why shouldn’t they enjoy...

Outside

Outside
  • Author(s): Shalini Boland
  • Location(s): Bournemouth
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Near future

A post-apocalyptic romance thriller. The future is divided by Perimeters: high-security gated communities where life goes on as normal. If you’re inside you’re lucky. If you’re outside, life expectancy takes a nose dive. Riley is fortunate to have been...

Ransomed

Ransomed
  • Author(s): M A Hunter
  • Location(s): Weymouth
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Some secrets are too big to bury… Investigative journalist Emma Hunter never thought she’d be a bestselling author. Especially not for a blistering exposé of the brutal horrors committed at an orphanage. Some secrets breed in the dark… All...

Reliability of Rope

Reliability of Rope
  • Author(s): Samantha Priestley
  • Location(s): Lyme Regis
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern day

When a hand delivered invitation to a funeral is dropped through Kate’s door by mistake, she immediately knows she needs to attend. During the service she whispers ‘Please forgive me’ to the dead man Peter, and afterwards meets his...

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