Narrative theme: Sense of place

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The Burning Chambers
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France, 1562. As the Wars of Religion begin to take hold, a courageous Catholic woman and a passionate Huguenot believer find themselves united in a quest to uncover a long-buried secret . ....
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The City of Tears
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The second instalment in The Joubert Family Chronicles. In the 16th century, from the Languedoc to Paris and Amsterdam, one family struggles to survive in the wake of the St Batholomew’s Day ...
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Daughter of the Sea
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A captivating and page-turning romance perfect for fans of Christina Courtenay and Barbara Erskine!

On a windswept British coastline the tide bestows an unexpected gift? Add to basket
Poems of the Sea
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A gorgeous collection of classic poetry all about the sea and the rivers and lakes that feed them. Introduced by author Adam Nicolson.
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Breasts and Eggs
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A strange and beguiling novel from Japan’s most exciting young writer, Mieko Kawakami.
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The Thursday Murder Club
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In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders. But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club f...
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The sentinel
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Jack Reacher gets off the bus in a sleepy no-name town outside Nashville, Tennessee. He plans to grab a cup of coffee and move right along. Not going to happen. The town has been shut down by a cyb...
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American Dirt
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‘American Dirt’ explores the experience of attempting to illegally cross the US-Mexico border, a journey which thousands of migrants make each year. Yesterday, Lydia had a bookshop. Yes...
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Mum & dad
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Their parents made a choice years ago. Now they’re counting on the children to step in. After so much time, can old wounds heal? Mum & Dad by the Sunday Times bestseller...
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Tales from the Cafe
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The second novel from the author of the phenomenon, Before the Coffee Gets Cold: more tales from Cafe Funiculi Funicula, where customers may travel back in time – if they obey the rule...
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On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
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‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’ is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family&#...
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Beach Read: The New York Times bestselling laugh-out-loud love story you’ll want
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January is a hopeless romantic who likes narrating her life as if she’s the heroine in a blockbuster movie. Augustus is a serious literary type who thinks true love is a fairy-tale. January a...
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Lark Rise To Candleford
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A captivating evocation of rural life at the turn of the 19th century, presented in a beautiful collector’s edition with an introduction from Bill Gallagher, writer of the BBC television adap...
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Children of War
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Fifteen generations of Hassanakis’s family have been Cretan. After WW1, amidst rumours that Cretan Muslims will be sent to Turkey, Hassanakis worries he will have to leave behind his great lo...
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Path To The Sea
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Sometimes going home is just the beginning?

‘Vivid and beautifully written, Liz Fenwick is a gifted storyteller’ Sarah Morgan, Sunday Times bestselling author<...
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Doll Factory
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The Doll Factory, the debut novel by Elizabeth Macneal, is a story of art, obsession and possession set in Victorian London.
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Daisy Jones and The Six: Read the hit novel everyone’s talking about
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Daisy Jones & the Six rose from the 1970s LA music scene to become one of the biggest bands in the world. They sold out arenas from coast to coast. Their music defined an era and every girl in...
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Before The Coffee Gets Cold
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A beautiful, moving story about a small Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time. For fans of The Guest Cat and If Cats Disappeared from the World.
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Love Is Blind
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When Brodie is offered a job in Paris, he seizes the chance to flee Edinburgh and his tyrannical clergyman father, and begin a wildly different new chapter in his life. In Paris, a fateful encounte...
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If Cats Disappeared From The World
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A million-copy bestseller, a poignant and thought-provoking Japanese tale that asks what it really is that makes life worth living.
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Kite Runner
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Winter, 1975: Afghanistan, a country on the verge of an internal coup. 12-year-old Amir is desperate to win the approval of his father, one of the richest merchants in Kabul. He’s failed to d...
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Ubik
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Glen Runciter is dead. Or is he? Someone died in the explosion orchestrated by his business rivals, but even as his funeral is scheduled, his employees are receiving bewildering messages from their...
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Demelza
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A collector’s edition of Demelza, the second book in Winston Graham’s evocative and dramatic Cornish Poldark series.
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Miniaturist
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The sensational debut novel that became a Sunday Times No.1 bestseller and took the world by storm.
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Inferno
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Set in the heart of Europe, ‘Inferno’ follows renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon as he becomes drawn into a harrowing world centred around one of history’s most enduring ...
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