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The Audacity Of Sara Grayson

The Audacity Of Sara Grayson
  • Author(s): Joani Elliott
  • Location(s): Maryland, London, Maine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What happens when your mother’s dying wish becomes your worst nightmare? What happens when the world’s greatest literary icon dies before she finishes the final book in her best-selling series? And what happens when she leaves that book in...

The Ballad of Peckham Rye

The Ballad of Peckham Rye
  • Author(s): Muriel Spark
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

A man of devilish charm and enterprising spirit, Dougal Douglas is employed to revitalize the ailing firm of Meadows, Meade & Grindley. He succeeds, but not quite in the way his employer intended. Strange things begin to happen as...

The Beach Hut

The Beach Hut
  • Author(s): Cassandra Parkin
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

It is autumn time and on a peaceful Cornish beach, Finn and his sister Ava defy planning regulations and achieve a childhood dream when they build themselves an illegal beach hut. This tiny haven will be their home until...

The Blackheath Seance Parlour

The Blackheath Seance Parlour
  • Author(s): Alan Williams
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Horror
  • Era(s): 1842

In 1842, two sisters drunkenly debate their future, their family chocolate business has failed and so they decide to open a seance parlour. The locals are shocked but soon their shop is crammed with people wanting to contact the...

The Book of Manchester

The Book of Manchester
  • Author(s): David Sue (editor)
  • Location(s): Manchester
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

Featuring: David Constantine, Tom Benn, Pete Kalu, Brontë Schiltz , Sophie Parkes, Ian Carrington, Shelagh Delaney, Mike Duff, Mish Green, Okechukwu Nzelu, Reshma Ruia & Yusra Warsama. Manchester has a reputation for being one of the UK’s loudest cities....

The Book of Newcastle (Reading The City)

The Book of Newcastle (Reading The City)
  • Author(s): Zoe Turner (Editor)
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

The original Northern Powerhouse, Newcastle upon Tyne has witnessed countless transformations over the last century or so, from its industrial heyday, when Tyneside engineering and innovation led the world, through decades of post-industrial decline, and underinvestment, to its more...

The Book of Summers

The Book of Summers
  • Author(s): Emylia Hall
  • Location(s): Devon, Hungary, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1980s onwards

Beth Lowe has been sent a parcel. Inside is a letter informing her that her long-estranged mother has died, and a scrapbook Beth has never seen before. Entitled The Book of Summers, it’s stuffed with photographs and mementos complied...

The Bookshop Murder

The Bookshop Murder
  • Author(s): Merryn Allingham
  • Location(s): West Sussex
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1950s

Join Flora Steele – bookshop owner, bicycle-rider, day dreamer and amateur detective as she tackles her first case! Sussex, 1955: When Flora Steele opens up her bookshop one morning she’s in for the surprise of her life! Because there,...

The Borrowdale Body

The Borrowdale Body
  • Author(s): Rebecca Tope
  • Location(s): Borrowdale
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Lake District Mysteries: 13 As the auction at High Gates House in Borrowdale nears, Christopher Henderson bumps into Jennifer Reade, the expected recipient of the proceeds of the house clearance sale. She discovers a dead man in the...

The Business of Dying

The Business of Dying
  • Author(s): Simon Kernick
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

DS Dennis Milne kills three innocent people, initiating an investigation. A few hours later Milne is on the streets again investigating the death of a woman found by Regent’s Canal. As his investigation grows, he discovers a level of...

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