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Teesside Steal (Nick Guymer 1)

Teesside Steal (Nick Guymer 1)
  • Author(s): John Nicholson
  • Location(s): Teesside
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Nick Guymer’s life is a total mess. His dad has just died, he’s being made bankrupt, he’s getting evicted, his girlfriend has left him and Middlesbrough are 2-0 down in the UEFA Cup. But there’s a way out. His...

Tell Me No Lies

Tell Me No Lies
  • Author(s): Lisa Hall
  • Location(s): Blackheath
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): 2010s

Don’t. Trust. Anyone. It was supposed to be a fresh start. A chance to forget the past and embrace the future. But can you ever really start again? Or does the past follow you wherever you go? Steph and...

Tenacious (6)

Tenacious (6)
  • Author(s): Julian Stockwin
  • Location(s): France, The Mediterranean
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Turn of 18th Century

Thomas Paine Kydd is in Halifax enjoying the recognition and favour of his fellow officers when Tenacious is summoned to join Horatio Nelson’s taskforce on an urgent reconnaissance mission. Intelligence suggests the French Revolution is about to set the...

That Summer in Ischia

That Summer in Ischia
  • Author(s): Penny Feeny
  • Location(s): Ischia, Italy
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): Late 1970s, modern

1979 and two young women become au pairs to two Italian families. They are in search of excitement and romance, but one of their charges goes missing they come under suspicion from the police. The cracks in their friendship...

The 19th Wife

The 19th Wife
  • Author(s): David Ebershoff
  • Location(s): Utah
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century and Modern

Jordan returns from California to Utah to visit his mother in jail. As a teenager he was expelled from his family and religious community, a secretive Mormon offshoot sect. Now his father has been found shot dead in front...

The 500

The 500
  • Author(s): Matthew Quirk
  • Location(s): Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Mike Ford was following his father into a life of crime, when he chose to go straight and instead worked his way through Harvard Law School. Now he’s landed the ultimate job with the Davies Group, a powerful political...

The Abominable

The Abominable
  • Author(s): Dan Simmons
  • Location(s): Nepal
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1920s

June 1924. On the brutal North East Ridge of Mount Everest, famous adventurers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine vanish into the snow-whipped night. Daredevil explorer Richard Deacon devises a plan to follow in the men’s footsteps, accompanied only by...

The Affair

The Affair
  • Author(s): Santa Montefiore
  • Location(s): London, South Africa
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Happily married with two small children and a circle of devoted friends, Angelica knows she should be grateful. But then she meets a charismatic South African who flirts with her and makes her feel beautiful. What starts as a...

The Affair

The Affair
  • Author(s): Hilary Boyd
  • Location(s): Europe, The West Country
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Escape to the sun-drenched shores of Lake Como in the irresistible and gripping new novel from the million-copy bestselling author of Thursdays in the Park, The Anniversary and The Lie Connie McCabe longs for the summer where she spends...

The Africa Bar

The Africa Bar
  • Author(s): Nick Maes
  • Location(s): Zanzibar
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s and modern

Zanzibar today, and as it was 40 years ago: seen through the eyes of two women who meet there. Francesca has come hoping for new experience after the break-up of an affair, Carla to revive memories of a long-past,...

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