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Sweet Caress

Sweet Caress
  • Author(s): William Boyd
  • Location(s): Berlin, France, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s-1950s

Long listed for the Walter Scott Prize 2016 Amory’s first memory is of her father doing a handstand. She has memories of him returning on leave during the First World War. But his absences, both actual and emotional, are...

Sweetness in the Belly

Sweetness in the Belly
  • Author(s): Camilla Gibb
  • Location(s): Harar, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s onward

In Thatcher’s London, Lilly, a white Muslim nurse, struggles in a state of invisible exile. As Ethiopian refugees gradually fill the flats of the housing estate where she lives, Lilly tentatively begins to share with them her longing for...

Tarnished

Tarnished
  • Author(s): Julia Crouch
  • Location(s): Whitstable
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Peg always felt a little blurred, a little lacking in definition. Her mother died when she was six, her father simply disappeared, and she was brought up by her grandparents and her obese, bedridden aunt. But, despite all this,...

Tell No Tales

Tell No Tales
  • Author(s): Eva Dolan
  • Location(s): Peterborough
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two men are kicked to death in brutal attacks.  Caught on CCTV, the murderer hides his face – but raises a Nazi salute.  In a town riddled with racial tension, Detectives Zigic and Ferreira from the Hate Crimes Unit...

Telling Tales (Vera Stanhope #2)

Telling Tales (Vera Stanhope  #2)
  • Author(s): Ann Cleeves
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Ten years after Jeanie Long was charged with the murder of fifteen-year-old Abigail Mantel, disturbing new evidence proving her innocence emerges in the East Yorkshire village of Elvet. Abigail’s killer is still at large. For Emma Bennett, the revelation...

Ten Things I’ve learnt about love

Ten Things I’ve learnt about love
  • Author(s): Sarah Butler
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Alice has just returned to London from months of travelling abroad. She is late to hear the news that her father is dying, and arrives at the family home only just in time to say goodbye. Daniel hasn’t had...

Tennyson’s Gift

Tennyson’s Gift
  • Author(s): Lynne Truss
  • Location(s): Isle of Wight
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1860s

In July 1864, a corner of the Isle of Wight is buzzing with literary and artistic creativity. A morose Tennyson is reciting ‘Maud’ to empty sofas: the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron is white-washing the roses for visual effect and...

The Accidental Assassin

The Accidental Assassin
  • Author(s): Jan Toms
  • Location(s): Isle of Wight
  • Genre(s): Humour, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

The Isle of Wight is the most unlikely place for gang warfare but when Victor Green falls from a tree he lands on Tommy Hewson, gangster, known in the underworlds as Gruesome. Members of Tommy’s gang, the Pretty Boys...

The Admiral’s Daughter (8)

The Admiral’s Daughter (8)
  • Author(s): Julian Stockwin
  • Location(s): Cornwall, Devon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1800s

1803. Tensions are escalating again between England and France. While the Royal Navy launches reconnaissance, rescue missions and spies on the continent, French privateer ships are lurking in English waters poised to strike at British trade. Smugglers, perilous storms...

The Amount of Evil

The Amount of Evil
  • Author(s): Mark Yarwood
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Influential businessmen are being slaughtered across London; each victim is given a local anaesthetic before witnessing his own body being cut to pieces. The decapitated head is then stuck on a pole as warning that revenge is being reaped....

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