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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 Girl in the Letter

The Girl in the Letter
  • Author(s): Emily Gunnis
  • Location(s): Sussex
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s and modern

A heartbreaking letter. A girl locked away. A mystery to be solved. 1956. When Ivy Jenkins falls pregnant she is sent in disgrace to St Margaret’s, a dark, brooding house for unmarried mothers. Her baby is adopted against her...

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...

The Vintage Teacup Club

The Vintage Teacup Club
  • Author(s): Vanessa Greene
  • Location(s): Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

At a car boot sale in Sussex, three very different women meet and fall for the same vintage teaset. They decide to share it – and form a friendship that changes their lives . . . Jenny can’t wait...

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...

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...

Tell Me Everything

Tell Me Everything
  • Author(s): Laura Kay
  • Location(s): Brighton, Joshua Tree, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): RomCom, Fiction, LGBTQ+
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Would you entrust your life choices to someone hell-bent on avoiding theirs? Natasha has everything under control, at least that’s what her clients think. As a therapist, she has all the answers but when it comes to her personal...

33 Women

33 Women
  • Author(s): Isabel Ashdown
  • Location(s): Arundel
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When sisters Celine and Pip get a call telling them their reclusive mother has died, the women are reunited at her riverside home in Arundel to pick up the pieces. But someone is missing – their middle sister, Vanessa,...

A Kind of Vanishing

A Kind of Vanishing
  • Author(s): Lesley Thomson
  • Location(s): Hammersmith, Tide Mills
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1968 and 1999

Summer of 1968: on the same day that Robert Kennedy is shot, two nine-year old girls are playing hide and seek in the ruins of a deserted Sussex village. Alice has discovered a secret about Eleanor’s mother, and is...

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