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Uphill All the Way

Uphill All the Way
  • Author(s): Sue Moorcroft
  • Location(s): Malta, Northamptonshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction

When 51 year old Judith lost Giorgio, she lost her life in Malta – joy, love, her income, her own space, and her circle of friends. She even lost the view from her sun-warmed balcony of the sparkling blue...

Vanessa

Vanessa
  • Author(s): Hugh Walpole
  • Location(s): The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1720-1930

The fourth and final book in the Herries Chronicles. The fourth and final volume of the Herries Chronicles, described as ‘incomparably the best’ in The Daily Telegraph is a love story of ‘effortless brilliance’ (Observer) which starts with the...

Vanished

Vanished
  • Author(s): Tim Weaver
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Vanished is the brilliant new missing persons case in the David Raker series by Tim Weaver. No life is perfect. Everyone has secrets. For millions of Londoners, the morning of 17 December is just like any other. But not...

Vanishing Cornwall

Vanishing Cornwall
  • Author(s): Daphne du Maurier
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1960s

With her son, Christian Browning, Daphne du Maurier, who lived in Cornwall for most of her life and used her knowledge of the county in her novels “Rebecca”, “Frenchman’s Creek” and “Jamaica Inn”, chronicles all aspects of this part...

Virgin Earth

Virgin Earth
  • Author(s): Philippa Gregory
  • Location(s): England, Virginia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 17th Century

Sequel to the outstanding historical novel Earthly Joys, and written by the bestselling Philippa Gregory, the author of The Other Boleyn Girl and The Virgin’s Lover. John Tradescant the Younger has inherited his father’s unique collection of plants along...

Vita and the Birds

Vita and the Birds
  • Author(s): Polly Crosby
  • Location(s): Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1938 and 1997

A haunting mystery for fans of Eve Chase, Kate Morton and Kate Mosse. 1938: Lady Vita Goldsborough lives in the menacing shadow of her controlling older brother, Aubrey. But when she meets local artist Dodie Blakeney, the two women...

Viviens’ Heavenly Ice Cream Shop

Viviens’ Heavenly Ice Cream Shop
  • Author(s): Abby Clements
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

When Imogen and Anna unexpectedly inherit their grandmother Vivien’s ice cream parlour, it turns both their lives upside-down. The Brighton shop is a seafront institution, but while it’s big on charm it’s critically low on customers. If the sisters...

Walking in Pimlico

Walking in Pimlico
  • Author(s): Ann Featherstone
  • Location(s): England, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): Late 1800s

To ‘walk in Pimlico’ is, according to the Penguin Dictionary of Historical Slang, the colloquial expression ‘to be handsomely dressed’.Comedian, clog dancer, comic vocalist, actor and all-round funny fellow Corney Sage is treading the boards at the Constellation in...

Waterland

Waterland
  • Author(s): Graham Swift
  • Location(s): Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century up to 1945

‘Perfectly controlled, superbly written. Waterland is original, compelling and narration of the highest order’ Guardian In the years since its first publication, in 1983, Waterland has established itself as one of the classics of twentieth-century British literature: a visionary...

Waterline

Waterline
  • Author(s): Ross Raisin
  • Location(s): Glasgow, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

Mick Little used to be a shipbuilder on the Glasgow yards. But as they closed one after another down the river, the search for work took him and his beloved wife Cathy to Australia, and back again, struggling for...

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