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Glasshopper

Glasshopper
  • Author(s): Isabel Ashdown
  • Location(s): Brighton, Isle of Wight, Portsmouth
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

From the suburban disorder of 1980s southern England, 13-year-old Jake watches his world unravel as his father and older brother leave the family home and his mother increasingly finds solace in drink. Even as Jake outwardly shrugs off doubts...

Going Green

Going Green
  • Author(s): Nick Spalding
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the bestselling author of Dumped, Actually comes a laugh-out-loud story about saving your job…and maybe saving the planet in the process. Meet Ellie Cooke. When it comes to all things environmental she’s, well, a bit ‘green’. It’s not...

Good Women

Good Women
  • Author(s): Jane Stevenson
  • Location(s): England, London, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Novella, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

In ‘Light My Fire’ a passionate relationship cannot withstand a clash of tastes and an ancient Aga: a housewife’s life is transformed when she starts to see angels in ‘Walking with Angels’: and ‘Garden Guerillas’ follows a widow plotting...

Great Expectations

Great Expectations
  • Author(s): Charles Dickens
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century and Modern

Considered by many to be Dickens’ finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book’s narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on...

Greenwich Park

Greenwich Park
  • Author(s): Katherine Faulkner
  • Location(s): Greenwich
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Helen has it all… Daniel is the perfect husband. Rory is the perfect brother. Serena is the perfect sister-in-law. And Rachel? Rachel is the perfect nightmare. When Helen, finally pregnant after years of tragedy, attends her first antenatal class,...

Guilty Not Guilty

Guilty Not Guilty
  • Author(s): Felix Francis
  • Location(s): Oxfordshire, London, Welsh Borders
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It is said that everyone over a certain age can remember distinctly what they were doing when they heard that President Kennedy had been assassinated, or that Princess Diana had been killed in a Paris car crash, but I,...

Half a Pound of Tuppenny Rice

Half a Pound of Tuppenny Rice
  • Author(s): David Coubrough
  • Location(s): Cornwall, St Ives
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back 40 years

Each summer a group of families holiday together in St. Ives, Cornwall, but in 1972 their lives are shattered and they never meet up again. In a lane in the village of Zennor a hotel porter is found fatally...

Hands Down

Hands Down
  • Author(s): Felix Francis
  • Location(s): Middleham, Oxfordshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An old friend in need, a dangerous conspiracy – a new case for Sid Halley… Sid Halley, former British jump racing champion and private detective, is not having a good time. His wife Marina has decided she needs some...

Haweswater

Haweswater
  • Author(s): Sarah Hall
  • Location(s): The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1930s

A close knit farming community is pulled apart when the Manchester Water Board wants to flood the area to create a reservoir. A majestic first novel of love and intrigue set amongst the sweep of the Fells.

Heartland

Heartland
  • Author(s): Anthony Cartwright
  • Location(s): Dudley
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 2000s

Football World Cup 2002. Dudley. Rob is a teacher’s assistant at a local run down school and although still young was never able to emulate his famous father’s success as a professional footballer. The Labour Party, BNP, a young...

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