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The Last Night

The Last Night
  • Author(s): Cesca Major
  • Location(s): Devon, Lynmouth
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern and 1952

In a quiet coastal village, Irina spends her days restoring furniture, passing the time in peace and hiding away from the world. A family secret, long held and never discussed, casts a dark shadow and Irina chooses to withdraw...

The Last Stage

The Last Stage
  • Author(s): Louise Voss
  • Location(s): Surrey
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern and 1980s/90s

At the peak of her career as lead singer of a legendary 1980s indie band, Meredith Vincent was driven off the international stage by a horrific incident. Now living a quiet existence in a cottage on the grounds of...

The Last Summer

The Last Summer
  • Author(s): Judith Kinghorn
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): WW1

Clarissa is almost seventeen when the spell of her childhood is broken. It is 1914, the beginning of a blissful, golden summer – and the end of an era. Deyning Park is in its heyday, the large country house...

The Levelling Sea

The Levelling Sea
  • Author(s): Philip Marsden
  • Location(s): Falmouth
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

The story of Britain’s colourful maritime past seen through the changing fortunes of the Cornish port of Falmouth. Within the space of few years, during the 1560s and 1570s, a maritime revolution took place in England that would contribute...

The Light Keeper

The Light Keeper
  • Author(s): Cole Moreton
  • Location(s): East Sussex, Beachy Head
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sarah stands on the brink, arms open wide as if to let the wind carry her away. She s come to the high cliffs to be alone, to face the truth about her life, to work out what to...

The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter

The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Cherry Radford
  • Location(s): Beachy Head, Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

After the break-up of her marriage, Imogen escapes to her aunt’s converted lighthouse on Beachy Head. Writing for a tedious online magazine but hoping to start a novel, she wants to be alone until she finds an entrancing flamenco...

The Little House By The Sea

The Little House By The Sea
  • Author(s): Tracy Rees
  • Location(s): South Wales, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Bluebells bob in the salty sea wind and the cottage gate swings open to reveal the inky-blue cove. It’s exactly how Kitty always pictured it… except in her head, she wasn’t standing here alone. Kitty Roberts spends her days...

The Little Red Chairs

The Little Red Chairs
  • Author(s): Edna O'Brien
  • Location(s): Balkans, Ireland, London, The Hague (Den Haag)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s and 2000s

When a man who calls himself a faith healer arrives in a small, west-coast Irish village, the community is soon under the spell of this charismatic stranger from the Balkans. One woman in particular, Fidelma McBride, becomes enthralled in...

The Little Stranger

The Little Stranger
  • Author(s): Sarah Waters
  • Location(s): Warwickshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline,...

The Lollipop Man

The Lollipop Man
  • Author(s): Daniel Sellers
  • Location(s): West Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1990s

When a young girl is snatched from a West Yorkshire town there are eerie similarities with a cold case from many years earlier. It can’t be the same killer, can it? Yorkshire, 1994. Eighteen-year-old Adrian Brown spends his days...

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