Northern Reader

Young Mrs. Savage by D.E. Stevenson – a lovely 1949 novel of family reprinted by Furrowed Middlebrow at Dean Street Press

Death on Fleet Street by Anna Sayburn Lane – the latest in a brilliant 1920s series of murder mysteries tackled by Marjorie Swallow

Silence After Dinner by Clifford Witting – a 1953 murder mystery set in an English village with a definate twist reprinted by Galileo Publishers

A Death on Location by the Reverend Richard Coles – the latest installment of murder and more from the English village of Champton

The Eights by Joanna Miller – four of the first female undergraduates at Oxford in 1920 in a novel of loyalty and love.

A New Home at the Wartime Hotel by Maisie Thomas – a saga of wartime women in difficult circumstances in Manchester 1941

Double Stakes by Alison Morton – a contemporary thriller featuring a determined young woman in multiple cases

Bookish – How Reading Shapes Our Lives by Lucy Mangan – a life dominated by the joys of reading and the pleasures of books

New Horizons for the Woolworths Girls by Elaine Everest – a standalone novel of wartime experiences and Woolworths Girls

The Ten Teacups by Carter Dickson- a true classic of the Golden Age of Detection reprinted in the British Library Crime Classics series

Winter and Rough Weather by D.E. Stevenson – a book of rural life and characters from 1951 republished by Furrowed Middlebrow at Dean Street Press