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The London Bookshop Affair

The London Bookshop Affair
  • Author(s): Louise Fein
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1962 / 1942

A Novel of the Cold War Two courageous women. One astonishing secret. A world on the brink of war. London, 1962: The world is teetering on the brink of nuclear war but life must go on. Celia Duchesne longs...

The Loney

The Loney
  • Author(s): Andrew Michael Hurley
  • Location(s): Lancashire, Morecambe
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Horror
  • Era(s): Modern

If it had another name, I never knew, but the locals called it the Loney – that strange nowhere between the Wyre and the Lune where Hanny and I went every Easter time with Mummer, Farther, Mr and Mrs...

The Long Call

The Long Call
  • Author(s): Ann Cleeves
  • Location(s): North Devon
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

In North Devon, where the rivers Taw and Torridge converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father’s funeral takes place. The day Matthew turned his back on the strict evangelical community...

The Machine

The Machine
  • Author(s): James Smythe
  • Location(s): Isle of Wight
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): Near Future

Haunting memories defined him. The machine took them away. She vowed to rebuild him. From the author of The Testimony comes a Frankenstein for the twenty-first century. Beth lives alone on a desolate housing estate near the sea. She...

The Man Who Saw Everything

The Man Who Saw Everything
  • Author(s): Deborah Levy
  • Location(s): London, Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1988 & 2016

In 1989, Saul is hit by a car on the Abbey Road crossing. He is fine; he gets up and goes to see his girlfriend, Jennifer. They have sex and then break up. He leaves for the GDR, where...

The Meaning of Night

The Meaning of Night
  • Author(s): Michael Cox
  • Location(s): England, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1850s

A cold October night, 1854. In a dark passageway, an innocent man is stabbed to death. So begins the extraordinary story of Edward Glyver, book lover, scholar and murderer. As a young boy, Glyver always believed he was destined...

The Memory Garden

The Memory Garden
  • Author(s): Rachel Hore
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Various, modern

Lamorna Cove – a tiny bay in Cornwall, picturesque, unspoilt. A hundred years ago it was the haunt of a colony of artists. Today, Mel Pentreath hopes it is a place where she can escape the pain of her...

The Memory of Midnight

The Memory of Midnight
  • Author(s): Pamela Hartshorne
  • Location(s): York
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 16th Century

One hot day in Elizabethan York, young Nell Appleby is trapped in a wooden chest, and a horror of the stifling dark – and of the man who trapped her – dogs her for the rest of her life....

The Mercury Travel Club

The Mercury Travel Club
  • Author(s): Helen Bridgett
  • Location(s): Manchester, World
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

He took her to dinner: that was annoying He slept with her: that was hurtful He bought new underwear to impress her: quite frankly astounding He left me to bloody wash his FILTHY WHORING PANTS: INFURIATING!  After twenty-four years...

The Midnight Feast

The Midnight Feast
  • Author(s): Lucy Foley
  • Location(s): Dorset
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Midsummer, the Dorset coast In the shadows of an ancient wood, guests gather for the opening weekend of The Manor: a beautiful new countryside retreat. But under the burning midsummer sun, darkness stirs. Old friends and enemies circulate among...

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