The Making of Swallows and Amazons
- Location(s): The Lake District
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1973 - 2020
In 1973, Sophie Neville was cast as Titty alongside Virginia McKenna, Ronald Fraser and Suzanna Hamilton in the 1974 film ‘Swallows & Amazons.’ Made before the advent of digital technology, the child stars lived out Arthur Ransome’s epic adventure...
- Location(s): London, Norfolk
- Genre(s): Espionage, Thriller
British intelligence is in a state of panic. Cracks are appearing, or so a run of disciplinary cases would suggest. To cap it all, a retired MI5 officer collapses, the victim of what looks like a Russian poisoning. Leonard...
- Location(s): Wiltshire
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
An original, intelligent and twisty thriller set in rural Wiltshire. A dead body in a crop circle sends a coded message. Can DI Silas Hart uncover the chilling truth before it’s too late? It isn’t unusual for crop circles...
- Location(s): Hamina, Finland
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
A successful entrepreneur in the mushroom industry, Jaakko Kaunismaa is a man in his prime. At just 37 years of age, he is shocked when his doctor tells him that he’s dying. What is more, the cause is discovered...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Biography
- Era(s): Various
We all carry other people inside our heads – actors, leaders, writers, people from history or fiction, met or unmet, who sometimes seem closer to us than people we know. In The Man Within My Head, Pico Iyer sets...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): 15th century
In this tale of mystery and the supernatural, Laura Rahme evokes a Venice long forgotten. From the dark sottoporticos of the Arsenal, to the wealthy mansions of Castello, and deep within the secret passages of the Ducal Palace, The...
- Location(s): Canada, Bulgaria, Italy, Montenegro
- Genre(s): Mystery, Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): contemporary
Three years after her father’s tragic death, Kossara receives a mysterious phone call and a lucrative job offer. Eager to relaunch her academic career, she silences the voice of caution and accepts the proposal which requires that she return...
- Location(s): Florence
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 15th Century
The worlds of art, politics and passion collide in John L Heureux s masterful new novel, The Medici Boy. With rich composition, L Heureux ingeniously transports the reader to Donatello s Renaissance Italy directly into his bottega, (workshop), as...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
When a well-known British TV historian, Marmaduke Godolphin, is found murdered in the canals of Venice during carnival, stabbed by a stiletto blade, the Venetian police are eager to have the case solved and cleared up within a day...
- Location(s): Notting Hill, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Gothic
- Era(s): Contemporary
Notting Hill, London. One May evening, seventeen-year-old Maggie Parker’s mother walks out of their front door and doesn’t return . . . With her little brother in tow, desperate to find her mother, Maggie is drawn into a labyrinthine...
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