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Massacre Pond (Mike Bowditch 4)

Massacre Pond (Mike Bowditch 4)
  • Author(s): Paul Doiron
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

On an unseasonably hot October morning, Mike Bowditch is called to the scene of a bizarre crime: the corpses of seven moose have been found butchered on the estate of Elizabeth Moore, a wealthy animal rights activist who is...

Mateship with Birds

Mateship with Birds
  • Author(s): Carrie Tiffany
  • Location(s): Cohuna
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s onward

It is 1953 and Harry lives a solitary life as a dairy farmer in the small town of Cohuna, with his whippet Sip and the company of Betty, his neighbour. Harry helps young Michael with his sexual awakening and...

Mazel Tov

Mazel Tov
  • Author(s): J S Margot
  • Location(s): Antwerp, Tel Aviv
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

When 20-year-old student J.S. Margot took a tutoring job, little did she know it would open up an entire world. In the family’s Orthodox Jewish household she would encounter endless rules – ‘never come on a Friday, never shake...

Meet Me in Ivy Falls

Meet Me in Ivy Falls
  • Author(s): Amy True
  • Location(s): Tennessee
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In the gorgeous small town of Ivy Falls, Torran is putting all her passion into building her new career in house restoration, trying desperately to help the town keep its identity and charm. She has no time for love...

Meeting the English

Meeting the English
  • Author(s): Kate Clanchy
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1989

Literary Giant seeks young man to push bathchair. Own room in Hampstead, all found, exciting cultural milieu. Modest wage. Ideal ‘gap year’ opportunity. Apply Prys Box 4224XXC. ‘It’s only England,’ said Mr Fox, ‘just a few hours on the...

Melmoth

Melmoth
  • Author(s): Sarah Perry
  • Location(s): Prague, World
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction
  • Era(s): Various

upmarket women’s fiction set in Prague, England, Czechoslovakia, Manila and Turkey. One winter night in Prague, Helen Franklin meets her friend Karel on the street. Agitated and enthralled, he tells her he has come into possession of a mysterious...

Memorial Park

Memorial Park
  • Author(s): Louisa Scarr
  • Location(s): Fordingbridge
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural
  • Era(s): Contemporary

PC Lucy Halliday Book 2 Every family’s worst nightmare Three-year-old Rosie Logan is missing. Her mother, Maria, turned away for just one moment and now her life is changed forever. It falls to PC Lucy Halliday and her police...

Meredith, Alone

Meredith, Alone
  • Author(s): Claire Alexander
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2018

Meredith Maggs hasn’t left her house in 1,214 days. But she insists she isn’t alone. She has her cat, Fred. Her friend Sadie visits when she can. There’s her online support group, StrengthInNumbers. She has her jigsaws, favourite recipes,...

Message from an Unknown Mother

Message from an Unknown Mother
  • Author(s): Xinran
  • Location(s): China
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): Modern

Ten chapters, ten women and many stories of heartbreak, including her own: Xinran once again takes us right into the lives of Chinese women and their lost daughters. Whether as a consequence of the single-child policy, destructive age-old traditions...

Metropolis

Metropolis
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Gaffney
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1860s

New York. 1868. Irish Beatrice is a “hot-corn Girl”, selling corn on the cob to passers-by and picking their pockets. German Georg, arriving in Manhattan on the run from a scandal – or perhaps a crime – back in...

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