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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): Cosy 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...

Play to the End

Play to the End
  • Author(s): Robert Goddard
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2002

Approaching his fiftieth birthday, actor Toby Flood arrives in Brighton for the final performances of Lodger in the Throat following a ten-week regional tour. The tour had not gone well, with a hoped-for West End transfer unlikely to eventuate....

The Day of the Triffids

The Day of the Triffids
  • Author(s): John Wyndham
  • Location(s): Isle of Wight, London, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Horror
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

When Bill Masen wakes up blindfolded in hospital there is a bitter irony in his situation. Carefully removing his bandages, he realizes that he is the only person who can see: everyone else, doctors and patients alike, have been...

The Mystery Of Yew Tree House

The Mystery Of Yew Tree House
  • Author(s): Lesley Thomson
  • Location(s): Bishopstone
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1940s and Present Day

1940. At Yew Tree House, recently widowed Adelaide Stride is raising her two daughters alone – but it’s not just the threat of German invasion that keeps her up at night. She is surrounded by enemies posing as allies...

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