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Shipwrecks Happen

Shipwrecks Happen
  • Author(s): Ellie Philpott
  • Location(s): Canterbury, Kent
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Shipwrecks Happen is a beautifully crafted story of love, loss and renewal set against the backdrop of an iconic Art Deco house located on the edge of an isolated, windswept beach in Kent. It is peopled with characters that...

Shooters

Shooters
  • Author(s): Julia Boggio
  • Location(s): England, France, Italy
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Stella Price is determined to become a successful wedding photographer, even if it means learning from Connor Knight, a wedding shooter with sexy rock star status and an ego to match. Burned by an affair that ended her last...

Silenius’ Gift

Silenius’ Gift
  • Author(s): Richard Szweda
  • Location(s): The North East (England)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 90s AD

This story tells the adventures of Antonious, a hapless British slave as he trails around Northern Britain in a quest for a box. The story is set in Britain, just after the murder of Emperor Domitian; Nerva is on...

Silent in the Grave

Silent in the Grave
  • Author(s): Deanna Raybourn
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1800s

The first in the Lady Grey series. It’s London, 1886. To say I met Nicholas Brisbane over my husband’s dead body is not entirely accurate. Edward, it should be noted, was still twitching upon the floor…For Lady Julia Grey,...

Six Stories

Six Stories
  • Author(s): Matt Wesolowski
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1997 and 2017

1997. Scarclaw Fell. The body of teenager Tom Jeffries is found at an outward bound centre. Verdict? Misadventure. But not everyone is convinced. And the truth of what happened in the beautiful but eerie fell is locked in the memories...

Small Island

Small Island
  • Author(s): Andrea Levy
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1948

Queenie Bligh has given up waiting for her husband Bernard to come back from his service in the Second World War, and to make ends meet has let rooms in her house out to immigrants from Jamaica, among them...

Small Pleasures

Small Pleasures
  • Author(s): Clare Chambers
  • Location(s): South London
  • Genre(s): Romance, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): 1950s

1957, the suburbs of South East London. Jean Swinney is a journalist on a local paper, trapped in a life of duty and disappointment from which there is no likelihood of escape. When a young woman, Gretchen Tilbury, contacts...

So Many Ways to Begin

So Many Ways to Begin
  • Author(s): Jon McGregor
  • Location(s): Aberdeen, County Donegal, Coventry
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1950s onward

The book follows a Museum Curator and adopted son through his life. Forgotten times, post war Britain, this is a piecing together of one life through mementos past and present. A life set in the context of history.

So Pretty

So Pretty
  • Author(s): Ronnie Turner
  • Location(s): Rye
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Fear blisters through this town like a fever… When Teddy Colne arrives in the small town of Rye, he believes he will be able to settle down and leave his past behind him. Little does he know that fear...

Soho 4 A.M.

Soho 4 A.M.
  • Author(s): Nuala Casey
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Mid 2000s

6 July 2005. Great Britain has just been announced as the next host of the Olympics. The euphoric crowds pour forth from Trafalgar Square into the waiting bars and restaurants of Soho. Dreams, drugs, debauchery… Soho is London’s red...

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