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The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life

The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life
  • Author(s): William Nicholson
  • Location(s): Lewes
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000

This is the first book in a loose trilogy and is set over 10 days in 2000. Laura is content enough with her marriage, two children and part-time job. That is, until a lover from her past comes back...

The Sussex Downs Murder

The Sussex Downs Murder
  • Author(s): John Bude
  • Location(s): Sussex Downs
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

‘Already it looked as if the police were up against a carefully planned and cleverly executed murder, and, what was more, a murder without a corpse!’ Two brothers, John and William Rother, live together at Chalklands Farm in the...

Unexploded

Unexploded
  • Author(s): Alison MacLeod
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2 and Modern

May, 1940. On Park Crescent, Geoffrey and Evelyn Beaumont and their eight-year-old son, Philip, anxiously await news of the expected enemy landing on the beaches of Brighton. It is a year of tension and change. Geoffrey becomes Superintendent of...

Viviens’ Heavenly Ice Cream Shop

Viviens’ Heavenly Ice Cream Shop
  • Author(s): Abby Clements
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

When Imogen and Anna unexpectedly inherit their grandmother Vivien’s ice cream parlour, it turns both their lives upside-down. The Brighton shop is a seafront institution, but while it’s big on charm it’s critically low on customers. If the sisters...

You Are Dead (Roy Grace)

You Are Dead (Roy Grace)
  • Author(s): Peter James
  • Location(s): Brighton, Hove
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The last words Jamie Ball hears from his fiancée, Logan Somerville, are in a terrified mobile phone call. She has just driven into the underground car park beneath the block of flats where they live in Brighton. Then she...

Zen and the Diary of a B&B Owner

Zen and the Diary of a B&B Owner
  • Author(s): Scott Barfield
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Zen and the Diary of a B&B Owner is the humorous memoir of an ex-academic who traded professional security for a new start as a B&B owner in central Brighton. The book, in recounting the true stories of sharing...

All My Lies Are True

All My Lies Are True
  • Author(s): Dorothy Koomson
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the bestselling author of Tell Me Your Secret and The Brighton Mermaid comes the breath-taking sequel to the iconic Sunday Times bestseller The Ice Cream Girls. Verity is telling lies… And that’s why she’s about to be arrested...

Her Perfect Revenge

Her Perfect Revenge
  • Author(s): Lesley Sanderson
  • Location(s): Sussex
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On the surface we were the perfect couple, but no one knows what we’ve been hiding… Just six hours ago, Alex and I were married. It was a beautiful wedding by the sea, on the beach we’ve always loved....

I Know What You’ve Done

I Know What You’ve Done
  • Author(s): Dorothy Koomson
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On this street, everyone has something to hide. And now someone knows their secrets… Do you have any idea what the people you know are capable of? Bestselling author of All My Lies Are True, Dorothy Koomson, asks how...

Murder At St Saviour’s (Flora Steele #5)

Murder At St Saviour’s (Flora Steele #5)
  • Author(s): Merryn Allingham
  • Location(s): Sussex, Dorset
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1950s

Bookshop owner and amateur detective Flora Steele teams up with handsome crime writer Jack Carrington to unravel a curious murder in the village of Abbeymead! Sussex, 1956: When Flora and her partner-in-crime-solving, Jack, arrive at the charming church of...

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