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The Death of Lucy Kyte

The Death of Lucy Kyte
  • Author(s): Nicola Upson
  • Location(s): Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1930s

When bestselling crime author Josephine Tey inherits a remote Suffolk cottage from her godmother, it came full of secrets. Sorting through the artefacts of her godmother’s life, Josephine is intrigued by an infamous murder committed near the cottage a...

The Dream House

The Dream House
  • Author(s): Rachel Hore
  • Location(s): Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Everyone has a dream of their perfect house – in the heart of the countryside, or perhaps a stately residence in the middle of a wonderful city? For Kate Hutchinson, the move to Suffolk from the tiny, noisy London...

The Easternmost House

The Easternmost House
  • Author(s): Juliet Blaxland
  • Location(s): Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘The house on the edge of the cliff was demolished this week, which means we are now the house on the edge of the cliff.’ Within the next three years, Juliet Blaxland’s home will be demolished, and the land...

The Great Godden

The Great Godden
  • Author(s): Meg Rosoff
  • Location(s): Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

This is the story of one family, one dreamy summer – the summer when everything changes. In a holiday house by the sea, in a big, messy family, one teenager watches as brothers and sisters, parents and older cousins...

The Hunters

The Hunters
  • Author(s): Peter Hill
  • Location(s): Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s

It is 1975 and there are no sophisticated aids to help shrewd and earthy Chief-Superintendent Staunton of Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad and his amorous young assistant, Detective Inspector Wyndsor when they arrive in a time-warped East Anglian village in...

The Orphanage

The Orphanage
  • Author(s): Lizzie Page
  • Location(s): Lavenham
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1940s

This is the first book in a five-part post-war series set in the pretty village of Lavenham in Suffolk Shilling Grange Orphanage, England, 1948. She was their only hope. Now they are hers. A gritty, heartbreaking and unforgettable story...

The Sport of Baronets

The Sport of Baronets
  • Author(s): Theresa Romain
  • Location(s): Newmarket
  • Genre(s): Novella, Romance
  • Era(s): Regency (19th century)

The lives of Sir Bartlett Crosby and Hannah Chandler have been marked by fierce competition between their elite families…the perfect breeding ground for a mutual attraction neither can deny. Bart hopes to conquer “the turf” through victory in a...

The Walled Garden

The Walled Garden
  • Author(s): Sarah Hardy
  • Location(s): Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1946

A luminous debut novel about love, the trauma of war and the miracle of human resilience, for readers of Anna Hope, Sadie Jones and Elizabeth Jane Howard. No one survives war unscathed. But even in the darkest days, seeds...

The Wonderland Murders

The Wonderland Murders
  • Author(s): Millie Ravensworth
  • Location(s): Framlingham
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Present day

Penny returns to her home town of Framlingham when her grandma is ill and asks her to ruin her sewing shop. Her cousin Izzy is working there and they need to figure out their working relationship as well as...

Wakenhyrst

Wakenhyrst
  • Author(s): Michelle Paver
  • Location(s): Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): Historical

By the bestselling author of Dark Matter and Thin Air, an outstanding new piece of story-telling, a tale of mystery and imagination laced with terror. It is a masterwork in the modern gothic tradition that ranges from Mary Shelley...

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