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In Just One Day

In Just One Day
  • Author(s): Helen McGinn
  • Location(s): Hampshire, Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Flora has always adored her brother Billy. Born just eighteen months apart, their childhood was spent like two peas in a pod – no one could separate them. Now, as adults, they remain the best of friends. And as...

In the Mirror, a Peacock Danced

In the Mirror, a Peacock Danced
  • Author(s): Justine Bothwick
  • Location(s): Agra, Portsmouth
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s - 1950s

Agra, 1938: Eighteen-year-old Florence Hunt has grown up riding horses past the Taj Mahal and chasing peacocks through her backyard under the critical gaze of her father. Increasingly enamoured with his work on the booming railway, Florence yearns to...

Indefensible

Indefensible
  • Author(s): James Woolf
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

A lawyer crosses a dangerous line with a former client and discovers that some decisions are indefensible… Daniel, a criminal barrister, is working all hours on a sensational trial, defending a client he believes is wrongfully accused of a...

Indigo’s Dragon

Indigo’s Dragon
  • Author(s): Sofi Croft
  • Location(s): Poland, The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Young Adult

Indigo lives in the Lake District, and spends his time exploring the mountains he loves. An unexpected parcel arrives containing a first aid kit inside his grandfather’s satchel. Indigo’s curiosity is raised as he looks through his grandfather’s notebook...

Innocent Graves

Innocent Graves
  • Author(s): Peter Robinson
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Innocents

Innocents
  • Author(s): Francesca Segal
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Adam and Rachel are getting married at last. Childhood sweetheartswhose lives and families have been intertwined for years: theirs is set to be the wedding of the year. But then Rachel’s cousin Ellie makes an unexpected return to the...

Into The Woods

Into The Woods
  • Author(s): David Mark
  • Location(s): Wasdale Valley, The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Thirty years ago, three school-friends took a walk in the woods. Only two came back – their memories a jumble of hallucinations and twisted visions. There is a chilling reason why nobody looked for the missing girl. Now, disgraced...

Invisibles

Invisibles
  • Author(s): Ed Siegle
  • Location(s): Brighton, Rio de Janeiro
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s/70 and early 2000s

From the streets of Brighton to the bars of Rio de Janeiro, Ed Siegle weaves the rhythms of Brazil and the troubles of his characters into an absorbing story of identity, love and loss. Simultaneously familiar and foreign, this...

Jack Maggs

Jack Maggs
  • Author(s): Peter Carey
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1830s

Jack Maggs, raised and deported as a criminal, has returned from Australia, in secret and at great risk. What does he want after all these years, and why is he so interested in the comings and goings at a...

Jackdaw Summer

Jackdaw Summer
  • Author(s): David Almond
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern

A long hot summer – A wild boy – An abandoned baby – An act of violence Every summer Liam and Max roam the wild countryside of Northumberland – but this year things are different. One hot summer’s day...

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