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the Treatment

the Treatment
  • Author(s): Mo Hayder
  • Location(s): Bath, London
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

A husband and wife are discovered, imprisoned in their own home. Badly dehydrated, they’ve been bound and beaten. He is close to death. But worse is to come: their young son is missing. When Detective Inspector Jack Caffery is...

The Trinity 6

The Trinity 6
  • Author(s): Charles Cumming
  • Location(s): Europe, London, Moscow
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Perfect for fans of John le Carré – the most explosive secret of the Cold War could be exposed: but the bigger the lie, the more ruthlessly it will be protected… Hard-up Russia expert Dr Sam Gaddis finally has...

The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
  • Author(s): Joanna Cannon
  • Location(s): The Midlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1976

England,1976. Mrs Creasy is missing and The Avenue is alive with whispers. As the summer shimmers endlessly on, ten-year-olds Grace and Tilly decide to take matters into their own hands. And as the cul-de-sac starts giving up its secrets,...

The Victory Garden

The Victory Garden
  • Author(s): Rhys Bowen
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW1

As the Great War continues to take its toll, headstrong twenty-one-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to contribute to the war effort. She is convinced by a cheeky and handsome Australian pilot that she can do more, and it is...

The Visitor

The Visitor
  • Author(s): Katherine Stansfield
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1880s onwards

He turns and waves, twenty feet or so away… she can’t swim as strongly as usual. She can taste blood again. Nicholas bobs where he is, letting her catch up. Her nightdress blooms around her like a sail. She...

The Wardrobe Department

The Wardrobe Department
  • Author(s): Elaine Garvey
  • Location(s): County Donegal, The West End
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2002

Mairéad works all hours in a run-down West End theatre’s wardrobe department, her whole existence made up of threads and needles, running errands to mend shoes, fixing broken zips and handwashing underwear. She must also do her best to...

The Warrior’s Princess

The Warrior’s Princess
  • Author(s): Barbara Erskine
  • Location(s): England, Rome, Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Modern, 100AD

Jess, a young teacher in London, is attacked by someone she fears knows her well. Fleeing to her sister’s house in the Welsh borders to recuperate, she is disturbed by the cries of a mysterious child. Two thousand years...

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
  • Author(s): Alan Garner
  • Location(s): Alderley
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): Various

A tale of Alderley When Colin and Susan are pursued by eerie creatures across Alderley Edge, they are saved by the Wizard. He takes them into the caves of Fundindelve, where he watches over the enchanted sleep of one...

The Whispering Trees

The Whispering Trees
  • Author(s): Anne Allan
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

“They call me a witch, Liv, and maybe I am, in a manner of speaking.” Olivia doesn’t believe in magic. No sensible person does. So why, when the family moves to Devon after her dad’s accident, does the hill...

The White Company

The White Company
  • Author(s): Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Location(s): England, France, Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 14th Century

The White Company by Arthur Conan Doyle was the best selling book of its time. Set in the mediaeval era, this work presents a time when swordsmen and archers were the best kind of army. From Britain to France...

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