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Miss Appleby’s Academy

Miss Appleby’s Academy
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Gill
  • Location(s): Tow Law
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

Emma Appleby’s arrival in the County Durham village of Tow Law is sudden and mysterious, provoking deep suspicion in the locals. And because she has a child with her, seemingly out of marriage, they want nothing to do with...

Mistaken Identity

Mistaken Identity
  • Author(s): Alyssa J Montgomery
  • Location(s): Greece, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance

An irresistibly indulgent novel about identical twins, an autocratic tycoon, and the sensual, sophisticated Greek seaside. Greek tycoon Alex Kristidis will do anything it takes to prevent his brother marrying pop star Susie Hamlin, and Susie’s twin sister Leah...

Moon Cutters

Moon Cutters
  • Author(s): Janet Woods
  • Location(s): Dorset
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): 1840s

1840. Miranda Jarvis would do anything to protect her sister – so when Lucy comes down with a fever, she thinks nothing of stealing a loaf of bread from a local landowner. After all, things can’t get much worse:...

Morality Play

Morality Play
  • Author(s): Barry Unsworth
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 14th Century

It is the late fourteenth century, a dangerous time beset by war and plague. Nicholas Barber, a young and wayward cleric, stumbles across a group of travelling players and compounds his sins by joining them. Yet the town where...

Mother Hens

Mother Hens
  • Author(s): Sophie McCartney
  • Location(s): Ibiza, Cheshire, Las Vegas
  • Genre(s): Fiction, RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Cara Carmichael’s bestie is finally getting hitched, and she’s over the moon because it means one thing and one thing only… Whoah, they’re going to Ibiza! Swapping the school run for old skool club classics; four friends are leaving...

Mr Rosenbulm’s List

Mr Rosenbulm’s List
  • Author(s): Natasha Solomons
  • Location(s): Dorset
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Jack and Sadie Rosenblum come to England from Germany in the 1930s. He wants to integrate and follows the advice in the leaflet he receives on arrival. Sadie, however, does not want to integrate and misses her life in...

Mrs Fytton’s Country Life

Mrs Fytton’s Country Life
  • Author(s): Mavis Cheek
  • Location(s): Somerset
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Angela Fytton – wonderwife, supermother, bedroom vamp and business partner – has been unceremoniously dumped. Like many a good wife before her she has been swapped by her husband for a younger model. One day, she knows, her husband...

Murder At Abbeymead Farm (Flora Steele #6)

Murder At Abbeymead Farm (Flora Steele #6)
  • Author(s): Merryn Allingham
  • Location(s): Brighton, London, Sussex Downs
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): 1957

Amateur detective duo Flora Steele and Jack Carrington have gained a reputation for crime-solving. But will they be able to untangle the latest baffling murder in the cosy village of Abbeymead? Sussex, 1957: When Flora and Jack hear that...

Murder at Mount Ephraim

Murder at Mount Ephraim
  • Author(s): Julie Wassmer
  • Location(s): Hernhill
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

No.9 in the Pearl Nolan mystery series. Pearl Nolan receives a wedding invitation from an old school friend. Journalist Amy has chosen somewhere very special for the wedding ceremony – the historic Kent manor house of Mount Ephraim –...

Murder at St Paul’s Cathedral

Murder at St Paul’s Cathedral
  • Author(s): Jim Eldridge
  • Location(s): The City of London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1941

May, 1941. One of the senior choristers at St Paul’s, Edwin Roberts, is found beaten to death in the crypt of the cathedral and Detective Chief Inspector Coburg and Sergeant Lampson are called in to investigate. The dead man...

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