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We Bought a Zoo

We Bought a Zoo
  • Author(s): Benjamin Mee
  • Location(s): Dartmoor
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

A few years ago, Ben and his wife, Katherine, sold their small flat in Primrose Hill and moved to France to pursue their dream of restoring an old barn near Nimes.That dream then became much, much bigger, as they...

What I Never Told You

What I Never Told You
  • Author(s): Dawn Goodwin
  • Location(s): Padstow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980s and 2020s

How well do you know your children? And how well do they know you? When Helen Whitmore’s stepson brings home a new girlfriend one evening, her already imperfect family begins to tip towards breaking point. Diana is smart, beautiful,...

Whatever it Takes

Whatever it Takes
  • Author(s): Adele Parks
  • Location(s): Dartmouth, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Eloise Hamilton is a Londoner born and bred, so it is a momentous day when she reluctantly agrees to uproot to Dartmouth, leaving behind her perfect world so her husband can finally live in his. There are compensations, however....

When London was Capital of America

When London was Capital of America
  • Author(s): Julie Flavell
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 18th Century

Benjamin Franklin secretly loved London more than Philadelphia: it was simply the most exciting place to be in the British Empire. And in the decade before the outbreak of the American Revolution, thousands of his fellow colonists flocked to...

When the Lights Went Out

When the Lights Went Out
  • Author(s): Andy Beckett
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1970s

Where the Devil Can’t Go

Where the Devil Can’t Go
  • Author(s): Anya Lipska
  • Location(s): Gdansk, London
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Late 2000s

A NAKED girl is washed up on London’s Thames foreshore, the only clue to her identity a heart-shaped tattoo encircling two names. The sixteenth dead body recovered from the river in 2009, she is dubbed db16 by police. But...

Whispers Underground

Whispers Underground
  • Author(s): Ben Aaronovitch
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Modern

This book follow on from Rivers of London and Moon over Soho. Peter Grant is learning magic fast. And its just as well – he’s already had run ins with the deadly supernatural children of the Thames and a...

Whitstable

Whitstable
  • Author(s): Stephen Volk
  • Location(s): Whitstable
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): 1971

1971. A middle-aged man, wracked with grief, walks along the beach at Whitstable in Kent… A boy approaches him and, taking him for the famous vampire-hunter Doctor Van Helsing from the Hammer movies, asks for his help. Because he...

Who She Was

Who She Was
  • Author(s): Tony Parsons
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Nearby, a young woman waits for morning, and for the estate agent to arrive with the keys to her new life in the peaceful fishing village. She carries with her no trace of her previous life or the past...

Why She Died

Why She Died
  • Author(s): J G Roberts
  • Location(s): Berkshire
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It was a person after all, but she was suspended in mid-air. Abi’s heart began to thump against her ribcage as the full horror of what she was seeing became apparent. Her shrill scream pierced the silence, startling birds...

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