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The New Woman

The New Woman
  • Author(s): Charity Norman
  • Location(s): London, Oxfordshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

*A Radio 2 Book Club choice for Summer 2015* What would you do if you found out that your husband, your father, your son – was not who you thought? Could you ever love him again? Luke Livingstone is...

The Night before Christmas

The Night before Christmas
  • Author(s): Scarlett Bailey
  • Location(s): Cumbria
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

All Lydia’s ever wanted is a perfect Christmas… So when her oldest friends invite her to spend the holidays with them, it seems like a dream come true. She’s been promised log fires, roasted chestnuts, her own weight in...

The Night Ferry

The Night Ferry
  • Author(s): Michael Robotham
  • Location(s): Amsterdam, London, The English Channel
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Alisha Barba’s dreams of being a detective were shattered when a murder suspect broke her back across a brick wall. Now on her feet again, with her police career in limbo, she receives a message from an old school...

The Novel in the Viola

The Novel in the Viola
  • Author(s): Natasha Solomons
  • Location(s): England, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s onwards

This book starts off with Elise in her Austrian days, in Vienna, having a lovely time in the early thirties. Swiftly the story picks up at Tyneford House, a mansion on the south coast of Englan, where she is...

The Occasional Virgin

The Occasional Virgin
  • Author(s): Hanan al-Shaykh
  • Location(s): Italian Riviera, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Huda and Yvonne are on holiday in the Italian Riviera, enjoying the sun and the sparkling Mediterranean, reminiscent of their childhoods in Lebanon. Yvonne doesn’t know what she’s doing wrong, either there or back in London where she runs...

The Other Family

The Other Family
  • Author(s): Joanna Trollope
  • Location(s): London, Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Richie leaves his first wife and child (without going through the process of divorce) and goes off to live with another woman,and with her he fathers three daughters. His untimely death reveals the legal ramifications of his actions, and...

The Other Passenger

The Other Passenger
  • Author(s): Louise Candlish
  • Location(s): London, East London
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2019

You’re feeling pretty smug about your commute to work by riverboat. No more traffic gridlock or getting stuck on the tube in tunnels (you’re claustrophobic). Now you’ve got fresh air, an iconic Thames view, a whole lifestyle upgrade. You’ve...

The Other Twin

The Other Twin
  • Author(s): L V Hay
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A stunning, dark and sexy debut thriller set in the winding lanes and underbelly of Brighton, centring around the social media world, where resentments and accusations are played out, identities made and remade, and there is no such thing...

The Pact

The Pact
  • Author(s): Dawn Goodwin
  • Location(s): Teddington
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

“I’ll kill yours, if you kill mine.” Maddie’s life has come crashing down around her. Her husband has left her and moved on with a new woman and baby. No longer can she run from the past that’s been...

The Painter’s Daughters

The Painter’s Daughters
  • Author(s): Emily Howes
  • Location(s): Bath
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th Century

1759, Ipswich. Sisters Peggy and Molly Gainsborough are the best of friends and do everything together. They spy on their father as he paints, they rankle their mother as she manages the books, they tear barefoot through the muddy...

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