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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...

In A Dark, Dark Wood

In A Dark, Dark Wood
  • Author(s): Ruth Ware
  • Location(s): Kielder
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Nora hasn’t seen Clare for ten years. Not since the day Nora walked out of her old life and never looked back. Until, out of the blue, an invitation to Clare’s hen party arrives. A weekend in a remote...

In A Dry Season

In A Dry Season
  • Author(s): Peter Robinson
  • Location(s): Yorkshire

In Bloom

In Bloom
  • Author(s): Matthew Crow
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern

Francis Wootton’s first memory is of Kurt Cobain’s death, and there have since been other hardships much closer to home. At fifteen years old he already knows all about loss and rejection – and to top it all off...

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