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Great North Road

Great North Road
  • Author(s): Peter F Hamilton
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): 2120s

When attending a Newcastle murder scene, Detective Sidney Hurst finds a dead North family clone. Yet none have been reported missing. And in 2122, twenty years ago, a North clone billionaire was horrifically murdered in the same manner on...

Gun

Gun
  • Author(s): Ray Banks
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Crime, Novella
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Richie sat on the Metro, a copy of the free newspaper in his lap to cover up most of the blood, as well as the bag with the gun in it. He stared at his reflection in the opposite...

Loving Geordie

Loving Geordie
  • Author(s): Andrea Badenoch
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

It is August 1960 and Glue Terrace, overlooking the River Tyne, is due to be demolished. All that remains is the abandoned rubbish of former lives. The residents themselves have already been shifted.In the midst of this desolation lives...

Secrets and Shadows

Secrets and Shadows
  • Author(s): Evelyn Orange
  • Location(s): London, Sheffield, Sunderland
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1940s

In 1940, a young woman makes a decision that will have repercussions for generations to follow… On the eve of VE Day 1945, six-year-old Alexandra Graham is torn from her comfortable wartime existence in Scotland, to begin an uneasy...

Silent Voices (Vera Stanhope #4)

Silent Voices (Vera Stanhope #4)
  • Author(s): Ann Cleeves
  • Location(s): Tyne Valley
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When DI Vera Stanhope finds the body of a woman in the sauna room of her local gym, she wonders briefly if, for once in her life, she’s uncovered a simple death from natural causes. But a closer inspection...

Teesside Steal (Nick Guymer 1)

Teesside Steal (Nick Guymer 1)
  • Author(s): John Nicholson
  • Location(s): Teesside
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Nick Guymer’s life is a total mess. His dad has just died, he’s being made bankrupt, he’s getting evicted, his girlfriend has left him and Middlesbrough are 2-0 down in the UEFA Cup. But there’s a way out. His...

The Crow Trap (Vera Stanhope £1)

The Crow Trap (Vera Stanhope £1)
  • Author(s): Ann Cleeves
  • Location(s): North Pennines
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Three very different women come together at isolated Baikie’s Cottage on the North Pennines, to complete an environmental survey. Three women who each know the meaning of betrayal . . . Rachael, the team leader, is still reeling after...

The Midwife

The Midwife
  • Author(s): Tricia Cresswell
  • Location(s): London, Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century

A haunting and moving debut, The Midwife by Tricia Cresswell is perfect for fans of The Familiars and The Binding. 1830. After a violent storm, a woman is found alone, naked, near death on the Northumberland moors. She has...

The Quality of Mercy

The Quality of Mercy
  • Author(s): Barry Unsworth
  • Location(s): Durham
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1760s

This novel stands alone, but is a sequel to Sacred Hunger. The book picks up in the Spring of 1767 and interweaves several lives, in the coal fields and in Durham. It is the spring of 1767, two years...

The Sun’s Companion

The Sun’s Companion
  • Author(s): Kathleen Jones
  • Location(s): Cumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne, North Shields
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

It’s 1935. Tamar Fell has no family – or so she’s been told – and she relies on the friends she makes as she’s dragged from lodging house to lodging house by her mother – the reckless, beautiful Sadie....

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