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The Family Holiday

The Family Holiday
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Noble
  • Location(s): The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Chamberlain family used to be close. Charlie and Daphne were happily married, and their children Laura, Scott and Nick were inseparable. But then, inevitably, the children grew up and their own messy lives got in the way. Since...

The J M Barrie Ladies’ Swimming Society

The J M Barrie Ladies’ Swimming Society
  • Author(s): Barbara J Zitwer
  • Location(s): The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When Joey Rubin stumbles upon a group of elderly women swimming in a lake one freezing January morning, she thinks they must be mad. But then they dare her to come in… Joey, an overworked New York architect, has...

The Playground Murders

The Playground Murders
  • Author(s): Lesley Thomson
  • Location(s): West London, The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980 & 2018

Forty years ago, in the dark of the playground, two children’s lives were changed for ever. Stella Darnell is a cleaner. But when she isn’t tackling dust and dirt and restoring order to chaos, Stella solves murders. Her latest...

The Prophecy of Bees

The Prophecy of Bees
  • Author(s): R S Pateman
  • Location(s): The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Moving to Stagcote Manor was meant to be a fresh start for Lindy and her daughter Izzy. A chance at a new life in the Cotswolds after things went so wrong in London. But for Izzy it’s a prison...

The Upper Crush

The Upper Crush
  • Author(s): Evie Alexander
  • Location(s): Somerset, Corsham, Corsham Court, London, The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

He wasn’t banking on someone else taking the reins… Lady Estelle Foxbrooke is done cleaning up the mess left by her wild parents. She’s got a plan: take the reins and save the family estate her way. But then...

The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde

The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde
  • Author(s): Eve Chase
  • Location(s): The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1959 going forward

When four sisters arrive at Applecote Manor to spend the summer, all is clearly not well. They find their aunt and uncle still reeling from the disappearance of their only daughter, five years before. No one seems any closer...

The War Widow

The War Widow
  • Author(s): Lorna Gray
  • Location(s): Wales, Aberystwyth, Cheltenham, Cirencester
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): post-WWII

The echoes of war live long in the mind… Wales, 1947 Injured and terrified after an attempted abduction, desperation drives artist Kate Ward to the idyllic scene of her ex-husband’s recent suicide. Labelled a hysterical, grieving divorcée, no one...

Votes for Women: Cheltenham and the Cotswolds

Votes for Women: Cheltenham and the Cotswolds
  • Author(s): Sue Jones
  • Location(s): Cheltenham, The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

In 1918, after years of campaigning, many British women over the age of 30 gained a parliamentary vote. Cheltenham was the hub of activity in the Cotswolds, and before the First World War it had a number of vigorous...

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