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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...

The Past

The Past
  • Author(s): Tessa Hadley
  • Location(s): Somerset
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Over five novels and two collections of stories Tessa Hadley has earned a reputation as a fiction writer of remarkable gifts, and been compared with Elizabeth Bowen and Alice Munro. In her new novel three sisters and a brother...

The Path to the Sea

The Path to the Sea
  • Author(s): Liz Fenwick
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Boskenna, the beautiful, imposing house standing on the Cornish cliffs, means something different to each of the Trewin women. For Joan, as a glamorous young wife in the 1960s, it was a paradise where she and her husband could...

The Paying Guests

The Paying Guests
  • Author(s): Sarah Waters
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa, a large silent house now bereft of brothers, husband and even servants,...

The Peacock Summer

The Peacock Summer
  • Author(s): Hannah Richell
  • Location(s): The Chilterns
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Post WW2 and contemporary

Hidden deep in the dusty wing of an old manor house stands a locked room, forgotten by all – except one. Sixty years ago Lillian Oberon was mistress of Cloudesley, until one glittering summer, when a doomed love affair...

The Penny Heart

The Penny Heart
  • Author(s): Martine Bailey
  • Location(s): Australia, Calderdale, London, New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th century

Sentenced to death for a simple confidence trick, Mary Jebb escapes the gallows … but her reprieve is harsh: seven years in the unforgiving penal colony of Botany Bay. Yet Mary is determined not to be forgotten, sending two...

The Perfect Christmas Village

The Perfect Christmas Village
  • Author(s): Bella Osborne
  • Location(s): Warwickshire
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Tis the season…. for a Christmas cynic to have his frozen heart melted by festive magic. When Christmas-hating Sam moves to Holly Cross, he thinks he’s found the perfect home, until he discovers that, each year, Holly Cross transforms...

The Plague Charmer

The Plague Charmer
  • Author(s): Karen Maitland
  • Location(s): Porlock
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1361

1361. Porlock Weir, Exmoor. Thirteen years after the Great Pestilence, plague strikes England for the second time. Sara, a packhorse man’s wife, remembers the horror all too well and fears for safety of her children. Only a dark-haired stranger...

The Pleasure Seekers

The Pleasure Seekers
  • Author(s): Tishani Doshi
  • Location(s): Chennai (Madras), London
  • Era(s): 1960s onwards

August, 1968: Babo Patel arrives in London from Madras, with curly hair, jhill mill teeth and dreams of becoming a success. When he meets the beautiful, auburn-haired Siân Jones, he falls in love instantly. She, like him, is in...

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