Tristan Darby has experience spanning over 20 years in the catering, hospitality and wine trade – working in the kitchen, front of house, bar, retail and education – interspersed with time touring as a professional actor and singer. Tristan is drinks columnist for The Bath Magazine and the Bristol Read more
Diving Belles by Lucy Wood Along Cornwall’s ancient coast, the flotsam and jetsam of the past becomes caught in the cross-currents of the present and, from time to time, a certain kind of magic can float to the surface… Straying husbands lured into the sea can be fetched back, Read more
The House at Riverton by Kate Morton Summer 1924: On the eve of a glittering Society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again. Winter 1999: Read more
A Quiet Life by Natasha Walter Wife. Mother. Spy. A double life is no life at all. Since the disappearance of her husband in 1951, Laura Leverett has been living in limbo with her daughter in Geneva. All others see is her conventional, charming exterior; nobody guesses the secret she Read more
Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore Lizzie Fawkes has grown up in Radical circles where each step of the French Revolution is followed with eager idealism. But she has recently married John Diner Tredevant, a property developer who is heavily invested in Bristol’s housing boom, and he has everything Read more
Lie with Me by Sabine Durrant A few little lies never hurt anyone. Right? Wrong. Paul has a plan. He has a vision of a better future, and he’s going to make it happen. If it means hiding or exaggerating a few things here and there, no harm Read more
Lady Susan by Jane Austen Written in 1795, Jane Austen’s epistolary novel Lady Susan brims with satire and wit. The recently widowed Lady Susan is beautiful and attractive, yet selfish and manipulative. She flirts atrociously in order to secure a good marriage not only for herself but for her daughter Read more
The Bugle Back Issues 2014-17 As part of the website refresh, we have brought together all past editions of The Bugle under one menu location. Now, when you want to browse your favourite newsletter, just hover your mouse over The Bugle in the top menu, and select The Bugle Newsletter. Read more
Beloved by Toni Morrison Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe’s Read more
Restless by William Boyd Winner of the Costa Novel Award 2006 It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian émigrée living in Paris. As war breaks out she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious Englishman and under his tutelage Read more