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  • Location: Athens, Crete

Heavenly’s Child

1960s, 1970s: A coming of age story in Athens and Crete with a difference  (sequel to The House of Dust and Dreams)

  • Location: The Lake District

The Lake District Murder (British Library Crime Classics)

Early 1900s: Can murder really bleaken the gorgoeous landscape of the Lake District?

  • Location: Edinburgh

Northanger Abbey

2000s: “It was a source of constant disappointment to Catherine Morland that her life did not more closely resemble her books”

  • Location: Devon

A Game For All The Family

2000s: Moving from London to Devon should mean less stress, more time to relax and a happier, more peaceful life shouldn’t it?

  • Location: Hong Kong

The Piano Teacher

1940s, 1950s: Exotic Hong Kong takes center stage in this sumptuous novel, set in the 1940s and ’50s.

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White City

1952: An elaborate midnight heist, the biggest robbery in British history.

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