- Location(s): England, Spetses, The Atlantic Ocean
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Never having skippered a boat, Chris Stewart sails against the tide in the Solent, progresses to Spetses in Greece and then attempts a journey across the Atlantic.
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The latest novel from the genuinely bestselling author of seventeen compelling novels, from A Woman of Substance to The Triumph of Katie Byrne. As students at the prestigious Anya Sedgwick School of Decorative Arts in Paris, Alexandra Gordon, Kay...
- Location(s): North Dakota, Indiana, Rhode Island
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): Contemporary
All Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn’t touch her? All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a...
- Location(s): Glastonbury
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern, Early AD
Ancient secrets buried deep in Glastonbury’s past. And one woman’s quest to finally set them free. Cambridge present day: Following the death of her mother, Abi Rutherford receives a mysterious bequest – a misshapen sphere of crystal known as...
- Location(s): Barbados, Virginia
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 17th Century
A vivid account of the Irish slave trade: the previously untold story of over 50,000 Irish men, women and children who were transported to Barbados and Virginia.
- Location(s): The Ozarks
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
The hero of Daniel Woodrell’s Tomato Red is the most endearingly out-of-control loser you’re likely to meet. Sammy Barlach looks like a person “who should in any circumstances be considered a suspect”: clerks follow him through the supermarket when...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s/40s
London’s Kentish Town in the Thirties and Forties teems with life in every street and alleyway. It is a place where everyone knows everyone else, where lives are interwoven in intricate webs and where feuds are passed down from...
- Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne, Tenerife
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Molly Parker is a DWAG – a darts wife and girlfriend. Or rather, she’s an ex-DWAG after divorcing Paul “Bad Lad” Parker, a professional darts player and the self-pronounced Geordie pantomime villain of the sport, after catching him aiming...
Towards the End of the Morning
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
The true Fleet Street life that Frayn describes is long gone, but this book is tremendously evocative of journalism in the 1960s. Dyson is running small columns but yearns for bigger things. Work is carried out late morning and...
- Location(s): Manchester
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
It’s the countdown to Christmas and PI Sal Kilkenny is exhausted even thinking about the festive season – her life as a single mother is hectic at the best of times. So when she is asked to investigate a...
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