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Tuppenny Hat Detective #1

Tuppenny Hat Detective #1
  • Author(s): Brian Sellars
  • Location(s): Sheffield
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1951

A Period Murder Mystery: Was the old Star Woman murdered? Young Billy Perks, who found her body, is sure she was, but the authorities disagree. Their haste to close the case heightens Billy’s suspicions and he and his pals...

Turn To Dust (Detective Kay Hunter Book #9)

Turn To Dust (Detective Kay Hunter Book  #9)
  • Author(s): Rachel Amphlett
  • Location(s): Kent, Maidstone
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present Day

When the body of a naked man is found in the middle of a barren field, Detective Kay Hunter realises the investigation will test her skills to the limit. With only one clue to the victim’s identity, her inquiries...

Turning Blue

Turning Blue
  • Author(s): Benjamin Myers
  • Location(s): North Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Horror
  • Era(s): Modern

Nothing stays hidden forever. In the depths of winter in an isolated Yorkshire hamlet, a teenage girl, Melanie Muncy, is missing. The elite detective unit Cold Storage dispatches its best man to investigate. DI Jim Brindle may be obsessive,...

Two Caravans

Two Caravans
  • Author(s): Marina Lewycka
  • Location(s): Kent, Sheffield
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour

A field of strawberries in Kent and sitting in it are two caravans – one for the men and one for the women. The residents are from all over: miner’s son Andriy is from the old Ukraine, while sexy...

Twopence to Cross the Mersey

Twopence to Cross the Mersey
  • Author(s): Helen Forrester
  • Location(s): Liverpool
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Pre WW2

Twopence To Cross The Mersey is the first volume of Helen Forrester’s autobiography. It describes how she and her family (her bankrupted father, her difficult mother and her six siblings) arrive in depression-ridden, pre-World-War-Two Liverpool, in the hope of...

Undercurrent

Undercurrent
  • Author(s): Pauline Rowson
  • Location(s): Portsmouth
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Suicide, or murder? When Detective Inspector Horton’s bosses block his investigation, he starts to suspect there’s been a cover-up at the highest level …When naval historian Dr Douglas Spalding is found dead in Portsmouth’s Historic Dockyard, the Major Crime...

Underground London

Underground London
  • Author(s): Stephen Smith
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Various

History has never been so vivid with the sights and sounds of London gone by echoing in every page, in this subterranean exploration of London’s “tube”.

Unexploded

Unexploded
  • Author(s): Alison MacLeod
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2 and Modern

May, 1940. On Park Crescent, Geoffrey and Evelyn Beaumont and their eight-year-old son, Philip, anxiously await news of the expected enemy landing on the beaches of Brighton. It is a year of tension and change. Geoffrey becomes Superintendent of...

Union Street

Union Street
  • Author(s): Pat Barker
  • Location(s): Cleveland (UK)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Vivid, bawdy and bitter’ (The Times), Pat Barker’s first novel shows the women of Union Street, young and old, meeting the harsh challeges of poverty and survival in a precarious world. There’s Kelly, at eleven, neglected and independent, dealing...

Up with the Larks

Up with the Larks
  • Author(s): Tessa hainsworth
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Having given up a high-powered job and the lifestyle to match, Tessa Hainsworth had no idea how hard she would struggle when, full of optimism, she fulfilled her dream of moving to rural Cornwall with her young family one...

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