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Dennis Bisskit and the Basset Hound from Beacon’s Bottom
- Location(s): Kensington, Beacon's Bottom, Birmingham
- Genre(s): Humour, Crime
- Era(s): 1970
1970. Dennis Bisskit and best friend, Stinky Blackshaw are now recognised as Dudley’s finest private investigators. After foiling a gang of shoplifters at Lewis’s Department Store, they are hired by Lady Babbington-Perch, to guard her Crufts Dog Show favourite,...
Dennis Bisskit and the Man from Paris with the Very Large Head
- Location(s): Birmingham, Dudley
- Genre(s): Humour, Crime
- Era(s): 1969
Set in Dudley and Birminghay in 1969, Dennis Bisskit and best friend, Stinky Blackshaw, have recently left the army and begun a new career as Dudley’s finest (and only) private investigators. Full of the laughter and hilarious situations that...
- Location(s): Birmingham
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1885
To believe in her future, she must uncover her past… Birmingham, 1885. Born in a gaol and raised in a workhouse, Cora Burns has always struggled to control the violence inside her. Haunted by memories of a terrible crime,...
- Location(s): London, Birmingham
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
This the story of how, over the course of a year, Alys, the Guardian gardening writer, learns how to keep bees; and Steve, the urban beekeeper, learns how to plant a pollinator-friendly garden. Part beautifully designed coffee-table book, part...
- Location(s): Birmingham
- Genre(s): Children, Mystery
- Era(s): Turn of 20th Century
The setting is Birmingham Zoo ‘Mr Wills Crofts is deservedly a first favourite with all who want a real puzzle’ – Times Literary Supplement ‘He always manages to give us something that really keeps us guessing’ – Daily Mirror...
- Location(s): Birmingham, Brighton, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany after Dunkirk. As the long German war against Russia rages on in the east, the British people find themselves under dark authoritarian...
- Location(s): Birmingham
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
Three very different women work together at Cadbury’s Bournville factory, and their lives become entwined by war and work – and a child called David. Edie, the main character, marries young to escape her unhappy family home. Widowed at...
- 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....
- Location(s): Birmingham
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1970s, early 80s
When Pete’s parents moved from Cyprus to Birmingham in the 1960s in the hope of a better life, they had no money and only a little bit of English. They opened a fish-and-chip shop in Acocks Green. The Great...
- Location(s): Birmingham
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Robin Lyons #1 Detective Inspector Robin Lyons is going home. Dismissed for misconduct from the Met’s Homicide Command after refusing to follow orders, unable to pay her bills (or hold down a relationship), she has no choice but to...
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