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Trust Me

Trust Me
  • Author(s): Zosia Wand
  • Location(s): Coniston Water
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Lizzie lives in the Lake District with her partner, Jonty, and his teenage son, Sam. Though she’s only ten years older than her stepson, somehow their set-up works. They’re a unit, a family. But now Sam has become sullen...

Walk the Lines

Walk the Lines
  • Author(s): Mark Mason
  • Location(s): London
  • Era(s): Modern

The only way to truly discover a city, they say, is on foot. Taking this to extremes, Mark Mason sets out to walk the entire length of the London Underground – overground – passing every station on the way....

Wreaking

Wreaking
  • Author(s): James Scudamore
  • Location(s): England
  • Era(s): Modern

Three solitary characters remember their shared past in a sprawling, derelict psychiatric hospital on the English coast: a turbulent summer in the aftermath of the hospital’s closure that culminated in a shocking, life-altering accident. But the more each tries...

The Girl on the Train

The Girl on the Train
  • Author(s): Paula Hawkins
  • Location(s): London, The Home Counties
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She’s even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one...

A Cold Season

A Cold Season
  • Author(s): Alison Littlewood
  • Location(s): The Peak District, The Pennines
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Horror
  • Era(s): Modern

Cass is building a new life for herself and her young son Ben after the death of her soldier husband Pete, returning to the village where she lived as a child. But their idyllic new home is not what...

A Concert for Christmas

A Concert for Christmas
  • Author(s): Helen Hawkins
  • Location(s): The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Unwrap a story of festive song, good cheer and – just maybe – a sprinkling of love … Schoolteacher Sophie Lawson has fled to the Cotswold countryside after a tragic break-up and is throwing herself into dating and organising...

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
  • Author(s): Xiaolu Guo
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 2000s

A young Chinese woman comes to London to learn English, and learns about love, men, Europe and living amongst the British. She falls for a quasi hippie and the fact it is written in a stilted English adds to...

A Conspiracy of Friends

A Conspiracy of Friends
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The third novel in the London-based Corduroy Mansions series from Alexander McCall Smith, comparable in warmth and humour to 44 Scotland Street

A Conspiracy of Paper

A Conspiracy of Paper
  • Author(s): David Liss
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 18th Century

Benjamin Weaver, a Jew and an ex-boxer, is an outsider in eighteenth-century London, tracking down debtors and felons for aristocratic clients. The son of a wealthy stock trader, he lives estranged from his family-until he is asked to investigate...

A Cry in the Night

A Cry in the Night
  • Author(s): Tom Grieves
  • Location(s): The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern, looking back (with echoes of the 17th Century)

When night falls, fear spreads… The Lake District: a wild landscape, rife with stories. Detectives Zoe Barnes and Sam Taylor are called to investigate the disappearance of two children. But they quickly realise they have been drawn into a...

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