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Rootbound

Rootbound
  • Author(s): Alice Vincent
  • Location(s): South London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When she was a girl, Alice Vincent loved her grandfather’s garden – the freedom, the calm, the beauty of it. Twenty years later, living in a tiny flat in South London, that childhood in the garden feels like a...

Royal Holiday

Royal Holiday
  • Author(s): Jasmine Guillory
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Romance

IT’S THE CHRISTMAS ROMANCE YOU WON’T WANT TO MISS! When Vivian Forest gets the chance to tag along on her daughter Maddie’s work trip to England to style a member of the royal family, she can’t refuse. She’s excited...

Run Wild

Run Wild
  • Author(s): Gill Lewis
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Izzy and Asha need a space to call their own, away from difficult families, the Skull brothers and the trouble they bring. But the derelict building site where they stake their claim already belongs to something else, a wilderness...

Rupee Millionaires

Rupee Millionaires
  • Author(s): Frank Kusy
  • Location(s): India, London
  • Genre(s): Humour, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1990s

When Frank teams up with Spud, he thinks he’s got it made. But what he’s made is a deal with the Devil. ‘Dodgy’ Frank Kusy, born into poverty from immigrant parents, learns to live on his wits––first as an...

Safe and Sound

Safe and Sound
  • Author(s): Philippa East
  • Location(s): Brixton
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Home can be the most dangerous place… In a small London bedsit, a radio is playing. A small dining table is set for three, and curled up on the sofa is a body… Jenn is the one who discovers...

Saltwater

Saltwater
  • Author(s): Jessica Andrews
  • Location(s): County Donegal, London, Sunderland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Shortlisted for the Portico Prize. When Lucy wins a place at university, she thinks London will unlock her future. It is a city alive with pop up bars, cool girls and neon lights illuminating the Thames at night. At...

Sankofa

Sankofa
  • Author(s): Chibundu Onuzo
  • Location(s): West Africa, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to 1970s

Anna is at a stage of her life when she’s beginning to wonder who she really is. She has separated from her husband, her daughter is all grown up, and her mother – the only parent who raised her...

Saving Missy

Saving Missy
  • Author(s): Beth Morrey
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Seventy-nine is too late for a second chance. Isn’t it? Missy Carmichael is prickly, stubborn – and terribly lonely. Until a chance encounter in the park with two very different women opens the door to something new. Something wonderful....

Sawbones

Sawbones
  • Author(s): Catherine Johnson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Georgian Era

Sixteen-year-old Ezra McAdam has much to be thankful for: trained up as an apprentice by a well-regarded London surgeon, Ezra’s knowledge of human anatomy and skill at the dissection table will secure him a trade for life. However, his...

Scarlet Ibis

Scarlet Ibis
  • Author(s): Gill Lewis
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Red asks, ‘Will we always be together?’ ‘Always,’ I say. ‘Just you and me in that little boat, watching the scarlet ibis flying back to the Caroni Swamp.’ Scarlet’s used to looking after her brother, Red. He’s special –...

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