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Author
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Kitty Cartwright has always solved her problems in the kitchen. Her cookbooks are her life, and there isn't an issue that cooking with aspic can't fix. Her only wish is that she had a book entitled 'Rustling Up Dinner When Your Husband Has Left You'. Forty years later on Rosemary Lane, Della Cartwright has just opened a very special little bookshop. Not knowing what to do with the hundreds of cookbooks her mother left to her, she now wants to share...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
On top of the Yorkshire Moors, in an isolated spot carved out of the barren landscape, lies White Windows, a house of shadows and secrets. Here lives Marcus Twentyman, a hard-drinking but sensitive man, and his sister, the brisk widow, Hester. When Annaleigh, a foundling who has fled her home in London, finds herself at the remote house, in service to the Twentymans, she discovers all is not as it seems behind closed doors. Isolated and lonely, Annaleigh...
Author
Publisher
Hodder
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Newly-qualified vet Mandy Hope is leaving Leeds - and her boyfriend Simon - to return to the Yorkshire village she grew up in. There, she will help out in her parents' surgery whilst they're short-staffed. Mandy's life has always revolved around her work with rescued animals, and Welford offers an opportunity to work with creatures of all sizes, from hedgehogs and puppies to farm stock and even wild deer. But rural Yorkshire is very different to the...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
After facing the horrors of the Crimean War, Adam Brooksbank returns to Black Moss Farm filled with regret over the path in life he has chosen. Starting anew, he decides to focus on rebuilding his family's rundown farm and make it a home again. Lucy Bancroft lives with her parents on Prospect Terrace which backs onto the local tannery, and is the most beautiful girl in the village. But unfortunately her wealth doesn't match her looks, and she soon...
6) Royal
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
As the war rages on in the summer of 1943, the King and Queen choose to quietly send their youngest daughter, Princess Charlotte, to live with a trusted noble family in the Yorkshire countryside. Despite her fiery, headstrong nature, the princess's fragile health poses far too great a risk for her to remain in war-torn London. Third in line to the throne, seventeen year-old Charlotte reluctantly uses an alias upon her arrival in Yorkshire. A talented...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
1666. A child is born in the farmhouse at Windebank, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Named Rejoice (Joy) by her dying father, Joy grows up witness to the persecution of the farming community for following a banned faith. Defying the authority of the local priest, she joins a group of Yorkshire pioneers travelling to the New World to form a colony close to Philadelphia - a passionate, rebellious and courageous woman fighting against the constraints...
Author
Series
Publisher
Clipper Large Print Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Staying alone in the shadow of an abandoned manor house in Yorkshire would be madness to some, but art enthusiast Lissy de Luca can't wait. Lissy has her reasons for seeking isolation, and she wants to study the Staithes Group - an artists' commune active at the turn of the 20th century. Lissy is fascinated by the imposing Sea Scarr Hall - but the deeper she delves, the stranger things get.
Author
Publisher
Clipper Large Print Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Cassandra Parkin stuns in her latest dark fiction, focusing on what constructs family dynamics and what happens when they fall apart. On Yorkshire's gradually-crumbling mud cliffs sits an Edwardian seaside house. In the bathroom, Jacob and Ella hide from their parents' passionate arguments by playing the `Underwater Breathing' game - until the day Jacob wakes to find his mother and sister gone. Years later, the sea is creeping closer, his father is...
11) Brutal
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Frank Peters' peaceful life on his farm in the isolated Yorkshire Moors comes to an abrupt end when his beloved wife Maureen dies. Depressed when his daughter emigrates to Australia two weeks after the funeral, and that his son rarely visits or calls, Frank believes he is destined for a bleak and lonely future. Then one night, disturbed by a noise at the back of the house, he finds a badly injured young woman called Irena, and he's shocked when she...
12) Cow girl
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
Billie fled her Yorkshire upbringing to pursue her dreams of finding a cure for the illness which killed her mother, yet when her father gets sick, she must return home to save the farm. But the transition from city girl to country lass isn't easy, not least because leaving London means leaving her relationship with Joely Chevalier, French pharmaceutical femme fatale, just as it was heating up. And when she gets to Yorkshire, Billie's shocked to discover...
Author
Series
Publisher
Hodder
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Christmas has arrived in the village of Welford, bringing with it the scent of hot roasted chestnuts and a layer of frost sparkling on the ground. This year, vet Mandy Hope is looking forward to the holidays. Her animal rescue centre, Hope Meadows, is up and running - and she's finally going on a date with Jimmy Marsh, owner of the local outward bound centre. The advent of winter sees all sorts of animals cross Mandy's path, from goats named Rudolph...
Author
Series
Cavendon Hall volume 2
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a summer weekend in 1926 the Ingham family gathers at Cavendon Hall, the great house in Yorkshire that has been their family home for centuries, summoned by the Earl. With them are the Swanns who have served the house for generations - and know all their secrets. The estate is under threat; the aftermath of the Great War has left Cavendon facing ruin. Its heir is pushing for divorce so he can follow his heart. And the Earl has a surprise of his...
15) I found you
Author
Language
English
Description
East Yorkshire. Single mum Alice Lake finds a man on the beach outside her house. He has no name, no jacket, no idea what he is doing there. Against her better judgement she invites him in to her home. Surrey. Twenty-one-year-old Lily Drew has only been married for three weeks. When her new husband fails to come home from work one night she is left stranded in a new country where she knows no one. Then the police tell her that her husband never existed....
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A puzzling locked-room mystery that puts someone Oldroyd loves in terrible danger.When a film shoot on Wharfedale's vintage railway turns into a grisly crime scene, DCI Oldroyd's idyllic visit to the countryside with his partner Deborah is well and truly stopped in its tracks. One of the film's stars has been shot dead in a train carriage while the cameras rolled outside. But nobody else went in-or came out. Has the killer really pulled off the perfect,...
Author
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Language
English
Description
A successful Hollywood composer, Chris always promised his wife they would return to the Yorkshire Dales. Now, after his wife's death, Chris rents a house in the Dales so he can come to terms with his grief. But when he finds that the house was the scene of a murder in the 1950s, he finds himself distracted by the history of the property.
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