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Belonging

Belonging
  • Author(s): Umi Sinha
  • Location(s): India, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century to early 1920s

Lila Langdon is twelve years old when she witnesses a family tragedy after her mother unveils her father’s surprise birthday present – a tragedy that ends her childhood in India and precipitates a new life in Sussex with her...

Berlin

Berlin
  • Author(s): Bea Setton
  • Location(s): Kreuzberg, Neukölln
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Daphne Ferber arrives in Berlin for a fresh start in a thrilling new city, the last thing she expects is to run into more drama than she left behind. Of course, she knew she’d need to do the...

Betrayal

Betrayal
  • Author(s): David Gilman
  • Location(s): Washington DC, Honduras
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Dan Raglan, former Foreign Legion fighter, alias The Englishman, returns. The new high-octane international thriller from David Gilman. Someone’s trying to start a war. And Raglan’s just walked into the kill zone. It has been many years since Dan...

Betty

Betty
  • Author(s): Tiffany McDaniel
  • Location(s): Ohio
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

Born in a bathtub in 1954 to a Cherokee father and white mother, Betty is the sixth of eight siblings. The world they inhabit is one of poverty and violence – both from outside the family and also, devastatingly,...

Between Love and Hate

Between Love and Hate
  • Author(s): Toni Morgan
  • Location(s): China, Bahrain, Idaho, Montenegro, North Carolina
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 1930-2010

Short stories that spread around the world and told from the viewpoints of everyday people.

Between the Stops

Between the Stops
  • Author(s): Sandi Toksvig
  • Location(s): South London
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Between the Stops is a sort of a memoir, my sort. It’s about a bus trip really, because it’s my view from the Number 12 bus (mostly top deck, the seat at the front on the right), a double-decker...

Between the Woods and the Water

Between the Woods and the Water
  • Author(s): Patrick Leigh Fermor
  • Location(s): Europe, Hungary, Romania
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1930s

this is the sequel to ‘A Time of Gifts’, and Fermor continues his walk through the length of 1930s Europe. Starting from where the previous book left off, at the border into Hungary, and on to “the Iron Gates”...

Beyond A Broken Sky

Beyond A Broken Sky
  • Author(s): Suzanne Fortin
  • Location(s): Somerset, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1945 and 2022

Some secrets are better left buried… 2022. Stained-glass expert Rhoda Sullivan is called to Telton Hall to examine a window designed by an Italian prisoner of war during WW2. It should be a quick job but when she and...

Black Reed Bay

Black Reed Bay
  • Author(s): Rod Reynolds
  • Location(s): Long Island
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Don’t trust ANYONE… When a young woman makes a distressing middle-of-the-night call to 911, apparently running for her life in a quiet, exclusive beachside neighbourhood, miles from her home, everything suggests a domestic incident. Except no one has seen...

Blackwatertown

Blackwatertown
  • Author(s): Paul Waters
  • Location(s): County Armagh, County Tyrone, Ireland, Northern Ireland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1950s

When maverick police sergeant Jolly Macken is banished to the sleepy 1950s Irish border village of Blackwatertown, he vows to find the killer of his brother – even if the murderer is in the police. But a lot can...

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