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The Butcher’s Hook

The Butcher’s Hook
  • Author(s): Janet Ellis
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1760s

Georgian London, in the summer of 1763. At nineteen, Anne Jaccob is awakened to the possibility of joy when she meets Fub, the butcher’s apprentice, and begins to imagine a life of passion with him. The only daughter of...

The Bygones

The Bygones
  • Author(s): Jim Gibson
  • Location(s): Nottinghamshire
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Fiction

“When I met the Devil I was twelve years old. I’d just started holding hands with Holly from the top end of the village and, even though I thought she was only messing me around when she said that...

The Cambridge Siren

The Cambridge Siren
  • Author(s): Jim Kelly
  • Location(s): Cambridge
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1941

Autumn, 1941. The third year of war and still the siren sounds, driving the people of Cambridge from their beds to trudge to one of the city’s crowded bomb shelters. At dawn, the body of a young man is...

The Camomile Lawn

The Camomile Lawn
  • Author(s): Mary Wesley
  • Location(s): Cornwall, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1930s

Behind the large house, the fragrant camomile lawn stretches down to the Cornish cliffs. Here, in the dizzying heat of August 1939, five cousins have gathered at their aunt’s house for their annual ritual of a holiday. For most...

The Care and Management Of Lies

The Care and Management Of Lies
  • Author(s): Jacqueline Winspear
  • Location(s): Kent, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW1

By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since girlhood, have become strained – by Thea’s passionate embrace of women’s suffrage, and by the imminent marriage of Kezia to Thea’s brother, Tom, who runs the...

The Castaways

The Castaways
  • Author(s): Lucy Clarke
  • Location(s): Fiji, South London
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

t should be like any other holiday. Beautiful beaches. Golden sunsets. Nothing for miles. You’ll never want to leave. Until you can’t… Gripping, twisty and full of sun-soaked atmosphere, THE CASTAWAYS will whisk you far away to the island...

The Cheesemaker’s House

The Cheesemaker’s House
  • Author(s): Jane Cable
  • Location(s): Northallerton
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

“Just think, Alice, right now Owen could be putting a hex on you!” When Alice Hart’s husband runs off with his secretary, she runs off with his dog to lick her wounds in a North Yorkshire village. Battling with...

The Chocolate Girls

The Chocolate Girls
  • Author(s): Annie Murray
  • Location(s): Birmingham
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Three very different women work together at Cadbury’s Bournville factory, and their lives become entwined by war and work – and a child called David. Edie, the main character, marries young to escape her unhappy family home. Widowed at...

The Clifton Chronicles (1)

The Clifton Chronicles (1)
  • Author(s): Jeffrey Archer
  • Location(s): Bristol
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): First half of the 20th Century

The Clifton Chronicles is Jeffrey Archer’s most ambitious work in four decades as an international bestselling author. The epic tale of Harry Clifton’s life begins in 1919, in the backstreets of Bristol. His father was a war hero, but...

The Closer I Get

The Closer I Get
  • Author(s): Paul Burston
  • Location(s): South London, Hastings
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

’An intense, tightly calibrated thriller’ Huffington Post Tom is a successful author, but he’s struggling to finish his novel. His main distraction is an online admirer, Evie, who simply won’t leave him alone. Evie is smart, well read and...

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