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Nothing Ventured

Nothing Ventured
  • Author(s): Jeffrey Archer
  • Location(s): Oxford, London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This is not a detective story, this is a story about a detective William Warwick has always wanted to be a detective, and decides, much to his father’s dismay, that rather than become a barrister like his father, Sir...

Notting Hill in the Snow

Notting Hill in the Snow
  • Author(s): Jules Wake
  • Location(s): Notting Hill
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s mayhem in Bethlehem…unless they can work together! Viola Smith plays the viola in an orchestra (yes really!), but this year she’s been asked to stretch her musical talents to organising Notting Hill’s local nativity. Nate Williams isn’t looking...

Number 11 (The Winshaw Legacy #2)

Number 11 (The Winshaw Legacy #2)
  • Author(s): Jonathan Coe
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This is a novel about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us all. It’s about the legacy of war and the end of innocence. It’s about how comedy and politics...

Off the Beaten Track: My Crazy Year in Asia

Off the Beaten Track: My Crazy Year in Asia
  • Author(s): Frank Kusy
  • Location(s): India, Australia, London, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Humour
  • Era(s): 1980s

One man. Four continents. And a love-crazed travel writer going off the beaten track… In 1989, Frank Kusy found himself the unwilling love pawn of a booted and bodiced Boadicea on a Harley low rider. Then he fell in...

Old Baggage

Old Baggage
  • Author(s): Lissa Evans
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

What do you do next, after you’ve changed the world? It is 1928. Matilda Simpkin, rooting through a cupboard, comes across a small wooden club – an old possession of hers, unseen for more than a decade. Mattie is...

Old Sins Never Die

Old Sins Never Die
  • Author(s): Danielle Collins
  • Location(s): Scotland, London
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Never look back…Treason is deadly While in the Lake District, journalist Emmeline Kirby and jewel thief/insurance investigator Gregory Longdon overhear a man attempting to hire international assassin Hugh Carstairs, a MI5 agent who went rogue. They race back to London to...

Old Sins Never Die

Old Sins Never Die
  • Author(s): Daniella Bernett
  • Location(s): Scotland, London, The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Never look back…Treason is deadly While in the Lake District, journalist Emmeline Kirby and jewel thief/insurance investigator Gregory Longdon overhear a man attempting to hire international assassin Hugh Carstairs, a MI5 agent who went rogue. They race back to...

On Beauty

On Beauty
  • Author(s): Zadie Smith
  • Location(s): London, Boston
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

Why do we fall in love with the people we do? Why do we visit our mistakes on our children? What makes life truly beautiful? Set between New England and London, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families...

Once We Were Witches

Once We Were Witches
  • Author(s): Sarah Driver, Fabi Santiago (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): London, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

A spellbinding new middle grade series crackling with magic and adventure, perfect for fans of Starfell, Nevermoor and A Pinch of Magic. I am Spel. Daughter of witches. The only one who can step between worlds. The only one...

One

One
  • Author(s): Eve Smith
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Future, Fiction
  • Era(s): The Future

A powerful, prescient speculative thriller: a woman’s job of enforcing climate-emergency Britain’s one-child policy is compromised when she discovers a personal link to an illegal sibling on the ministry hit-list, leading to a shocking discovery that changes everything… One...

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