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Tell Me Everything

Tell Me Everything
  • Author(s): Laura Kay
  • Location(s): Brighton, Joshua Tree, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): RomCom, Fiction, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Would you entrust your life choices to someone hell-bent on avoiding theirs? Natasha has everything under control, at least that’s what her clients think. As a therapist, she has all the answers but when it comes to her personal...

The Girl in the Letter

The Girl in the Letter
  • Author(s): Emily Gunnis
  • Location(s): Sussex
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s and modern

A heartbreaking letter. A girl locked away. A mystery to be solved. 1956. When Ivy Jenkins falls pregnant she is sent in disgrace to St Margaret’s, a dark, brooding house for unmarried mothers. Her baby is adopted against her...

The Vintage Teacup Club

The Vintage Teacup Club
  • Author(s): Vanessa Greene
  • Location(s): Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

At a car boot sale in Sussex, three very different women meet and fall for the same vintage teaset. They decide to share it – and form a friendship that changes their lives . . . Jenny can’t wait...

My Other Husband

My Other Husband
  • Author(s): Dorothy Koomson
  • Location(s): Brighton, Leeds
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2022 looking back to mid 1990s

Cleo Forsum is a bestselling novelist turned scriptwriter whose TV series, ‘The Baking Detective’ is a huge success. But now she has decided to walk away from it all and wants to divorce her husband, Wallace. But what is...

33 Women

33 Women
  • Author(s): Isabel Ashdown
  • Location(s): Arundel
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When sisters Celine and Pip get a call telling them their reclusive mother has died, the women are reunited at her riverside home in Arundel to pick up the pieces. But someone is missing – their middle sister, Vanessa,...

A Deadly Discovery

A Deadly Discovery
  • Author(s): Ciar Byrne
  • Location(s): Lewes
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

In the shadow of Lewes castle lies buried an ancient tablet. Hours after discovering it, dashing local archaeologist Gideon Rivers is dead. Writer Virginia Woolf and her artist sister, Vanessa, both know firsthand that it doesn’t take much to...

A Kind of Vanishing

A Kind of Vanishing
  • Author(s): Lesley Thomson
  • Location(s): Hammersmith, Tide Mills
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1968 and 1999

Summer of 1968: on the same day that Robert Kennedy is shot, two nine-year old girls are playing hide and seek in the ruins of a deserted Sussex village. Alice has discovered a secret about Eleanor’s mother, and is...

A Police Doctor Investigates

A Police Doctor Investigates
  • Author(s): Candy Denman
  • Location(s): Hastings
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): present

A MUST FOR FANS OF PATRICIA CORNWELL AND KATHY REICHS A Police Doctor Investigates – the Sussex murder mysteries Books 1-3 The first three standalone titles in a great series following part-time English GP and police medical examiner Callie...

A Shot in the Dark

A Shot in the Dark
  • Author(s): Lynne Truss
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After the notorious ‘Middle Street Massacre’ of 1951, when the majority of Brighton’s criminals wiped one another out in a vicious battle as the local police force enjoyed a brief stop en route for an ice cream, Inspector Steine...

After the Party

After the Party
  • Author(s): Cressida Connolly
  • Location(s): Sussex, Isle of Man
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

‘I always wanted to be friends with both my sisters. Perhaps that was the source, really, of all the troubles of my life…’ It is the summer of 1938 and Phyllis Forrester has returned to England after years abroad....

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