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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...

John Saturnall’s Feast

John Saturnall’s Feast
  • Author(s): Lawrence Norfolk
  • Location(s): Buckland, The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Food and Drink, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 17th Century

From the bestselling author of Lemprière’s Dictionary, Lawrence Norfolk is back with an astounding novel of seventeeth-century life, love and war: the story of an orphan who becomes the greatest cook of his age. The village of Buckland, 1625....

Jubilee

Jubilee
  • Author(s): Shelley Harris
  • Location(s): Buckinghamshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1977

Published in the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee year, Shelley Harris’s remarkably assured debut novel is rooted in the Silver Jubilee celebrations of June 1977. Cherry Gardens, in a small Buckinghamshire village, is throwing a street party. Union Jack bunting is...

Keep Her Close

Keep Her Close
  • Author(s): M.J. Ford
  • Location(s): Oxford
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Present-day

When a young woman goes missing from Jesus College, Oxford, DS Josie Masters is plunged into a world of panic as fear grips the city. Along with Thames Valley Police’s newest recruit, the handsome DS Pryce, Josie must act...

Kill Me Again

Kill Me Again
  • Author(s): Rachel Abbott
  • Location(s): Manchester
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Maggie Taylor accepts a new job in Manchester, she is sure it is the right move for her family. The children have settled well although her husband, Duncan, doesn’t appear to be so convinced. But nothing prepares her...

King Crow

King Crow
  • Author(s): Michael Stewart
  • Location(s): Salford
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

This is the story of a lonely and neglected boy, Paul, who is uprooted from one Salford housing estate to another by his mother. His Father has left and his Mother has suffered depression ever since. His great interest...

King of the Badgers

King of the Badgers
  • Author(s): Philip Hensher
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Hanmouth: a quiet, picturesque English seaside town. But behind closed, Georgian front doors and the within the artisan cheese shop, its residents live lives that are anything but. When an 8-year-old girl goes missing from the estate on the...

King Soloman’s Carpet

King Soloman’s Carpet
  • Author(s): Barbara Vine
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Jarvis Stringer lives in a crumbling schoolhouse overlooking a tube line, compiling his obsessive, secret history of London’s Underground. His presence and his strange house draw a band of misfits into his orbit: young Alice, who has run away...

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