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Albion

Albion
  • Author(s): Anna Hope
  • Location(s): Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Brookes are gathering in their eighteenth-century ancestral home – twenty bedrooms of carved Sussex sandstone – to bury Philip, the head of the family – the blinding sun around which they have all orbited for as long as...

All Change (Cazalet Chronicles 5)

All Change (Cazalet Chronicles 5)
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Jane Howard
  • Location(s): Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

It is the 1950s and as the Duchy, the Cazalets’ beloved matriarch, dies, she takes with her the last remnants of a disappearing world – of houses with servants, of class and tradition – in which the Cazalets have...

An Amsterdam Affair

An Amsterdam Affair
  • Author(s): Amanda Addison
  • Location(s): Amsterdam, Brighton, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction

An Amsterdam Affair follows Sam and her idealistic teenaged son, Matty. Phil, Sam’s husband, is unemployed because of a short-lived affair that cost him his job as a geologist. Sam finds solace in wild swimming and making art in...

Arbitrage

Arbitrage
  • Author(s): Colette Kebell
  • Location(s): London, Brighton, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980s to present

Ryan Logan thinks he has it all… A young attorney specialising in finance and tax law, Logan has earned an impressive reputation and commands a hefty fee for his services. But when he advises his corporate employers against a...

Before I Found You

Before I Found You
  • Author(s): Daisy White
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1960's

Do you love gripping mysteries? Then discover Ruby Baker, a young woman with a talent for uncovering the truth. A child found alone on the beach, shouting into the waves. A mother who served ten years for a crime...

Before I Left

Before I Left
  • Author(s): Daisy White
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1960's

A LONG HOT SUMMER, A CITY BY THE SEA, AND A SERIAL KILLER ON THE LOOSE. Nineteen-year-old runaway Ruby Baker and pregnant best friend Mary escape domestic violence in London to find a new home in Brighton. They join...

Before I Trust You

Before I Trust You
  • Author(s): Daisy White
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1960s

Rita Stonehill runs in front of the horses on a sunny day at Brighton racecourse. Why did she kill herself and is there more to it than meets the eye? Ruby Baker is shocked to witness this dramatic event....

Body Heat

Body Heat
  • Author(s): Candy Denman
  • Location(s): Hastings
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present

When police doctor Callie Hughes is called to a crime scene, pronouncing death isn’t difficult. More difficult will be determining the age and sex of the victim. The charred body found inside a burned-out car is so badly damaged,...

Bones of Contention

Bones of Contention
  • Author(s): Candy Denman
  • Location(s): Hastings
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

A police doctor tries to extricate herself from a tricky situation in this gripping medical thriller When human remains are discovered in the garden of a house in the seaside town of Hastings, Dr Callie Hughes can’t resist trying...

Brighton Rock

Brighton Rock
  • Author(s): Graham Greene
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock tells the story of a young leader of one of the infamous razor gangs in 1930s Brighton who murders a journalist and then finds that his attempts to avoid any possibility of arrest lead him...

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