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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...

The Stranger Diaries

The Stranger Diaries
  • Author(s): Elly Griffiths
  • Location(s): Sussex
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

A gripping contemporary Gothic thriller from the bestselling author of the Dr Ruth Galloway mysteries: Susan Hill meets Gone Girl and Disclaimer. Clare Cassidy is no stranger to tales of murder. As a literature teacher specialising in the Gothic...

Trio

Trio
  • Author(s): William Boyd
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1968

A producer. A novelist. An actress. It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. There are riots in Paris and the Vietnam War is out of control. While the world...

One Moment, One Morning

One Moment, One Morning
  • Author(s): Sarah Rayner
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The Brighton to London line. The 07:44 train. Carriages packed with commuters. A woman applies her make-up. Another occupies her time observing the people around her. A husband and wife share an affectionate gesture. Further along, a woman flicks...

The Liar’s Chair

The Liar’s Chair
  • Author(s): Rebecca Whitney
  • Location(s): Brighton, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Rachel Teller and her husband David appear happy, prosperous and fulfilled. The big house, the successful business . . . They have everything. However, control, not love, fuels their relationship and David has no idea his wife indulges in...

Cuckoo

Cuckoo
  • Author(s): Julia Crouch
  • Location(s): Brighton, The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A dark, juicy, deliciously unsettling, read-it-in-one-sitting psychological drama. Rose has it all – the gorgeous children, the husband, the beautiful home. But then her best friend Polly comes to stay. Very soon, Rose’s cosy world starts to fall apart...

Everyone in the Group Chat Dies

Everyone in the Group Chat Dies
  • Author(s): L M Chilton
  • Location(s): Crowhurst
  • Genre(s): Comedy, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Kirby Cornell needs a break from everything: – Her crumbling flat in the sleepy town of Crowhurst (famous for its award-winning sausage rolls and a second-rate serial killer from the 90s). – Her dead-end job. – Her sleazy landlord....

London and the South-East

London and the South-East
  • Author(s): David Szalay
  • Location(s): Hove, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The central character Paul is a man on the edge: alcoholic and seller of worthless ads in uncirculated magazines. He commutes from his suburban life in Hove on the south coast into London, to his pedestrian world of work,...

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