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Disputed Land

Disputed Land
  • Author(s): Tim Pears
  • Location(s): Shropshire, Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

Leonard and Rosemary Cannon summon their middle-aged offspring, along with partners and children, to the family home in the Welsh Marches for the Christmas holiday. As the gathered family settle in to their first Christmas together for some years,...

Ever Rest

Ever Rest
  • Author(s): Roz Morris
  • Location(s): Nepal, London, Mount Everest, Shropshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s and 2014

Twenty years ago, Hugo and Ash were on top of the world. As the acclaimed rock band Ashbirds they were poised for superstardom. Then Ash went missing, lost in a mountaineering accident, and the lives of Hugo and everyone...

Murder at the Maples

Murder at the Maples
  • Author(s): Joanne Phillips
  • Location(s): Shropshire
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

A cosy mystery set in North Shropshire: Flora Lively is a likeable and interesting character trying against all the odds to keep Shakers Removals going – it’s the business she’s inherited from her Dad. And what is going on...

My Rude Awakening

My Rude Awakening
  • Author(s): Edward Charles Featherstone
  • Location(s): Berkshire, Shropshire
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Erotica
  • Era(s): Modern

The honest, explicit and extraordinary memoir of Edward Charles Featherstone—Englishman, Businessman, Polo Player and Combat Pilot—My Rude Awakening reveals an astonishing account of life lived with passion and intensity. From the lush green Berkshire’s polo fields, through the ardours...

Nordy Bank

Nordy Bank
  • Location(s): Shropshire
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 20th Century

A group of children – similar feel to the Famous Five but greater age range – set up camp on Nordy Bank. Unsettling developments morph the book into darker fantasy but returns to the average experiences that any children...

All the Little Children

All the Little Children
  • Author(s): Jo Furniss
  • Location(s): Shropshire
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a family camping trip takes a dark turn, how far will one mother go to keep her family safe? Struggling with working-mother guilt, Marlene Greene hopes a camping trip in the forest will provide quality time with her...

Blood-Tied

Blood-Tied
  • Author(s): Wendy Percival
  • Location(s): Shropshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Present day

Esme Quentin is devastated when her sister Elizabeth is beaten unconscious, miles from her home. Two days later Esme discovers that Elizabeth has a secret past. Desperate for answers which the comatose Elizabeth cannot give, Esme begins a search...

Dead Ground in Between

Dead Ground in Between
  • Author(s): Maureen Jennings
  • Location(s): Ludlow
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

It’s late 1942; the war is still raging and the upcoming Christmas season looks bleak. Detective Inspector Tom Tyler is settling into his placement in Ludlow, Shropshire, a small town jammed with people sent there by the conflict. On...

Death At The Devil’s Chair

Death At The Devil’s Chair
  • Author(s): Saskia van der Zee
  • Location(s): Shropshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A body found in a bottomless pool. A second victim, meticulously staged and left for dead. In the desolate hills of Shropshire, a killer has arrived, and for local bunkhouse owner Marianne Leonard, the investigation is personal. When the...

Precious Bane

Precious Bane
  • Author(s): Mary Webb
  • Location(s): Shropshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th century

Born at the time of Waterloo in the wild country of Shropshire, Prudence Sarn is a wild, passionate girl, cursed with a hare lip — her ‘precious bane’. Cursed for it, too, by the superstitious people amongst whom she...

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