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- Location(s): Amsterdam, Nagasaki, Plymouth
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 1640s
How do you start a new life, leaving behind all you love? It’s 1641, and when Midori Kumashiro, the orphaned daughter of a warlord, is told she has to leave Japan or die, she has no choice but to...
- Location(s): Japan, Plymouth
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 1600s
Abducted by a Samurai warlord in 17th-century Japan what happens when fear turns to love? England, 1611, and young Hannah Marston envies her brother’s adventurous life. But when she stows away on a merchant ship, her powers of endurance...
- Location(s): Plymouth, Russia
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1943, WW2
Multi-award-winning author Tom Palmer returns with a thrilling naval adventure inspired by the incredible history of the Second World War Arctic convoys. Winter 1943. Teenagers Frank, Joseph and Stephen are Royal Navy recruits on their first mission at sea...
- Location(s): Plymouth
- Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age
- Era(s): Contemporary
Living on the streets is terrifying and exhausting. Grace’s only comforts are a steady stream of vodka, and a strange little boy who’s following her around. At nineteen, Grace has already had a child and endured an abusive marriage....
- Location(s): Plymouth, Exeter
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
HOW CAN YOU SOLVE A CRIME IF YOU CAN’T REMEMBER THE CLUES? There is an explosion at a military ball. The casualties are rushed to hospital in eight ambulances, but only seven vehicles arrive. Captain Harry Peterson is missing....
- Location(s): Plymouth
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 2015
“He’s going to kill me!” a 999 caller whispers. “Help me!” This gripping crime thriller is set against the backdrop of Plymouth, the Ocean City, in the winter of 2015. DI Lou Beradino and his transgender colleague, DS Fran...
- Location(s): Caribbean, Netherlands, Plymouth
- Genre(s): Historical, Adventure
- Era(s): 17th Century
In a rented room outside Plymouth in 1685, a daughter is born as her half-brother is dying. Her mother makes a decision: Mary will become Mark, and Ma will continue to collect his inheritance money. Mary’s dual existence as...
- Location(s): Plymouth
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
A new Second World War novel from best-selling author Diney Costeloe, based on a gripping and moving true story. Plymouth, 1941. As sirens blare all around, the Shawbrook family take refuge in a packed shelter. Bombs have already begun...
- Location(s): Plymouth
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Present day
Harry likes pretty things. He likes to look at them. Sometimes that isn’t enough. He wants to get closer. Naughty Harry. DI Charlotte Savage and her team in Plymouth are struggling with their investigation into a string of horrific...
- Location(s): Hertfordshire, Plymouth
- Genre(s): Horror, Short Stories
- Era(s): 2016
The harbinger, the oddball, the remaining twin… Weltanschauung seeks to open your eyes to different stories, set in different worlds and at different times, but with the same theme in mind: to make you question your worldview. This collection...
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