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The Shadow Year

The Shadow Year
  • Author(s): Hannah Richell
  • Location(s): Glossop, The Peak District
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s and Modern

1980. On a hot summer’s day five friends stumble upon an abandoned cottage hidden deep in the English countryside. Isolated and run-down, it offers a retreat, somewhere they can escape from the world. But as the seasons change, tensions...

The Murder Wall

The Murder Wall
  • Author(s): Mari Hannah
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Eleven months after discovering a brutal double murder in a sleepy Northumbrian town, Detective Chief Inspector Kate Daniels is still haunted by her failure to solve the case. Then the brutal killing of a man on Newcastle’s Quayside gives...

Deadly Deceit

Deadly Deceit
  • Author(s): Mari Hannah
  • Location(s): The North East (England)
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Four a.m on a wet stretch of the A1 and a driver skids out of control. Quick on the scene, Senior Investigating Officer Kate Daniels and partner DS Hank Gormley are presented with a horrifying image of carnage and...

Shadows on the Nile

Shadows on the Nile
  • Author(s): Kate Furnivall
  • Location(s): Egypt, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1930s

It’s 1932 and 27-year-old Jessica is living London life to the full when her younger brother Tim, an ancient Egyptian archaeology expert, goes missing. Teaming up with Sir Montague Chamford – who can resist neither a damsel in distress...

The Other Child

The Other Child
  • Author(s): Charlotte Link
  • Location(s): London, Scarborough
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern, 1970s, WW2

In the northern seaside town of Scarborough, a student is found cruelly murdered. For months, the investigators are in the dark, until they are faced with a copy-cat crime. The investigation continues apace, yet they are still struggling to...

The Space Between Things

The Space Between Things
  • Author(s): Charlie Hill
  • Location(s): Birmingham, Moseley
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

How far would you go to win the love of a woman? Arch, a wannabe poet living in a bohemian Birmingham suburb, likes to party and has no time for love or seriousness. Then he meets the mysterious Vee....

When God was a Rabbit

When God was a Rabbit
  • Author(s): Sarah Winman
  • Location(s): Cornwall, Essex, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s- turn of the 21st Century

1968. The year Paris takes to the streets. The year Martin Luther King loses his life for a dream. The year Eleanor Maud Portman is born. Young Elly’s world is shaped by those who inhabit it: her loving but...

A Complicated Matter

A Complicated Matter
  • Author(s): Anne Youngson
  • Location(s): London, Gibraltar, Witney
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

I used to believe the world had been created for me; every stone and grain of sand. As I grew older, I began to think of myself as something tacked on to the edge. 1939, London: From McPhail’s Passage...

About a Boy

About a Boy
  • Author(s): Nick Hornby
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): 1990s

Set in London in the 90s, this is Hornby at full throttle. Will is in his mid 30s, comfortably well off and no children by choice. His discovery that he can meet women through single-parent groups allows him access...

Ashenden

Ashenden
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Wilhide
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern, Various

Spring 2010, and when Charlie and Ros inherit Ashenden from their aunt Reggie a decision must be made. The beautiful eighteenth-century house, set in acres of English countryside, is in need of serious repair. Do they try to keep...

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