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The Proposal

The Proposal
  • Author(s): Tasmina Perry
  • Location(s): London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern and 1950s

Just say yes to this unforgettable read and take a spellbinding, romantic journey from the dazzling days of the debutantes in 1950s London to glamorous modern Manhattan. When Amy Carrell’s wealthy boyfriend ends their relationship just before Christmas, she’s...

The Queen of Diamonds

The Queen of Diamonds
  • Author(s): Juliet Moore
  • Location(s): England, South Africa
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Victorian era, later 1800s

A priceless diamond leads to love and adventure in late nineteenth century England… Only once has anyone cared for abandoned Catherine Claremont’s welfare. Handsome Harrison Foster saved her from a pack of cruel neighborhood girls, and walked out of...

The Quietness

The Quietness
  • Author(s): Alison Rattle
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Young Adult

When fifteen-year-old Queenie escapes from the squalid slums of nineteenth-century London, she has no idea about the dangers of the dark world she is about to become embroiled in. Initially thrilled at being taken on as a maid for...

The Rembrandt Secret

The Rembrandt Secret
  • Author(s): Alex Connor
  • Location(s): London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1500s and Modern

A serial killer keeping the past’s darkest secret hidden. A centuries-old conspiracy is about to explode into the present with devastating consequences. The first victim was forced to swallow stones. The second was whipped to death. The third was...

The Repentent Morning

The Repentent Morning
  • Author(s): Chris Paling
  • Location(s): Barcelona, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

Fitzrovia, Soho in London, 1930s. Meredith Kerr is spending another evening of inebriation with three men. Harry Bowden, billy boyle and Arthur Lawler all want her for themselves. But Meredith has forgotten how to understand what it is she...

The Retreat

The Retreat
  • Author(s): Sarah Pearse
  • Location(s): South Devon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This is a warning for all our guests at the wellness retreat. A woman’s body has been found at the bottom of the cliff beneath the yoga pavilion. We believe her death was a tragic accident, though DS Elin...

The Rewilding of Molly McFlynn

The Rewilding of Molly McFlynn
  • Author(s): Sue Reed
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Covid Pandemic 2020 and 1649 Witch Trials

It’s spring 2020 and fifteen-year-old Molly McFlynn is uprooted from town life by her mam to live with her bohemian grandparents in rural Northumberland. Molly is furious – her friends abandon her, the food is inedible and her grandmother...

The Rings of Saturn

The Rings of Saturn
  • Author(s): W G Sebald
  • Location(s): East Anglia
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1992

There is a narrative thread in the form of a journey through East Anglia but this is broken by tangental episodes and characters that drift in often seemingly from out of nowhere. This mixture of abstraction and convention is...

The Road to Urbino

The Road to Urbino
  • Author(s): Roma Tearne
  • Location(s): London, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Tuscany
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A story of obsession, love and art set in Tuscany, Sri Lanka and London. Ras, a Sri Lankan who fled his country as a child following the violent death of his mother and his father’s disappearance, has committed a...

The Room of the Dead

The Room of the Dead
  • Author(s): M R C Kasasian
  • Location(s): Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): WW2

A cold-blooded killer stalks a sleepy Suffolk town in this pitch-perfect WWII crime mystery. December 1939. Sackwater Police Station feels a million miles from the war effort. Elderly Mr Orchard keeps wandering off in his pyjamas, little Sylvia Satin...

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