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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...

La’s Orchestra Saves the World

La’s Orchestra Saves the World
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2, 1950s

With a failed marriage behind her, La — short for Lavender — moves to the Suffolk countryside on the eve of the Second World War to nurse her broken heart. Lonely and at a loss, a friend encourages her...

Lady of the English

Lady of the English
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Chadwick
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 12th Century

Two very different women . . . Linked by destiny and a power struggle for the English crown. Empress Matilda, daughter of Henry I, is determined to win back her crown from Stephen, the usurper king, against all odds...

Last Dance in Havana

Last Dance in Havana
  • Author(s): Rosanna Ley
  • Location(s): Bristol, Havana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s and 2012

Cuba, 1958. Elisa is only sixteen years old when she meets Duardo and she knows he’s the love of her life from the moment they first dance the rumba together in downtown Havana. But Duardo is a rebel, determined to...

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