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Homework
  • Author(s): Geoff Dyer
  • Location(s): Cheltenham
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

Born in 1958, the only child of a dinner lady and a sheet-metal worker, Geoff Dyer grew up in a world shaped by memories of shortages and the Second World War. But far from being a story of hardship...

Honour

Honour
  • Author(s): Elif Shafak
  • Location(s): London, Türkiye (Turkey)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Leaving her twin sister behind, Pembe leaves Turkey for love – following her husband Adem to London. There the Topraks hope to make new lives for themselves and their children. Yet, no matter how far they travel, the traditions...

House of Secrets

House of Secrets
  • Author(s): Lynda Stacey
  • Location(s): Scarborough, Yorkshire
  • Era(s): 1942 - present day

A woman on the run, a broken man and a house with a shocking secret … Madeleine Frost has to get away. Her partner Liam has become increasingly controlling to the point that Maddie fears for her safety, and...

How to Breed Sheep, Geese and English Eccentrics

How to Breed Sheep, Geese and English Eccentrics
  • Author(s): Valerie Poore
  • Location(s): Dorset
  • Genre(s): Humour
  • Era(s): Late1900s

When Maisie Peterson leaves university in 1977 without a job to go to, she decides to help her mother save her large and impractical country property in the wilds of rural Dorset by trying her hand at self-sufficiency. Ma...

Hurry Up And Wait

Hurry Up And Wait
  • Author(s): Isabel Ashdown
  • Location(s): Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

In her eargerly anticipated second novel, Mail on Sunday Novel Competition winner Isabel Ashdown explored the treacherous territory of adolescent friendships and traces the repercussions of a dangerous relationship across the decades. It’s been more than 20 years since...

Hydra

Hydra
  • Author(s): Matt Wesolowski
  • Location(s): Cornwall, Lancashire
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 2014

In November 2014 Arla Macleod bludgeoned her mother, father and sister to death with a hammer. Now incarcerated at a medium-security mental-health institution, Arla will speak to no one but Scott King, an investigative journalist, whose ‘Six Stories’ podcasts...

I Am Dust

I Am Dust
  • Author(s): Louise Beech
  • Location(s): Hull
  • Genre(s): Horror, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2005/2019

The Dean Wilson Theatre is believed to be haunted by a long-dead actress, singing her last song, waiting for her final cue, looking for her killer… Now Dust, the iconic musical, is returning after twenty years. But who will...

I Saw A Man

I Saw A Man
  • Author(s): Owen Sheers
  • Location(s): London, Nevada, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Hampstead. New York. Nevada. The event that changed all of their lives happened on a Saturday afternoon in June, just minutes after Michael Turner – thinking the Nelsons’ house was empty – stepped through their back door. After the...

If I Should Die

If I Should Die
  • Author(s): Matthew Frank
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Greenwich, London. When a homeless man walks into Greenwich police station and confesses a killing, it should be the admission that cracks open a murder enquiry. Instead, he stumbles out on to the street and collapses, bleeding from a...

Imagined London

Imagined London
  • Author(s): Anna Quindlen
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Anna Quindlen has visited London on numerous occasions and has written this account of London, based on her own literary map, tracing the footsteps of her favourite literary characters – where, for example, the bright young things of Evelyn...

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