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Death of a Mermaid

Death of a Mermaid
  • Author(s): Lesley Thomson
  • Location(s): Newhaven
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Freddy Power walked out of her childhood home twenty-two years ago, and swore never to return. But now she’s back, helping run her family’s fishery in Newhaven in the wake of her mother’s death. It feels as if time...

So Pretty

So Pretty
  • Author(s): Ronnie Turner
  • Location(s): Rye
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Fear blisters through this town like a fever… When Teddy Colne arrives in the small town of Rye, he believes he will be able to settle down and leave his past behind him. Little does he know that fear...

The Light Keeper

The Light Keeper
  • Author(s): Cole Moreton
  • Location(s): East Sussex, Beachy Head
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sarah stands on the brink, arms open wide as if to let the wind carry her away. She s come to the high cliffs to be alone, to face the truth about her life, to work out what to...

The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter

The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Cherry Radford
  • Location(s): Beachy Head, Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

After the break-up of her marriage, Imogen escapes to her aunt’s converted lighthouse on Beachy Head. Writing for a tedious online magazine but hoping to start a novel, she wants to be alone until she finds an entrancing flamenco...

The Mystery Of Yew Tree House

The Mystery Of Yew Tree House
  • Author(s): Lesley Thomson
  • Location(s): Bishopstone
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1940s and Present Day

1940. At Yew Tree House, recently widowed Adelaide Stride is raising her two daughters alone – but it’s not just the threat of German invasion that keeps her up at night. She is surrounded by enemies posing as allies...

Death in the Harbour, an Inspector Ryga Mystery (2)

Death in the Harbour, an Inspector Ryga Mystery (2)
  • Author(s): Pauline Rowson
  • Location(s): Newhaven
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1950s

Myra Swinley is convinced that her police constable husband’s death was no accident, and that he would never have lost his footing on a dark, foggy November night on the quayside of Newhaven Harbour while on his beat. Determined...

Never Let Me Go

Never Let Me Go
  • Author(s): Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Location(s): East Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s and early 2000s

In one of the most acclaimed novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never Let Me Go...

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