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Swing Time

Swing Time
  • Author(s): Zadie Smith
  • Location(s): The Gambia, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Dazzlingly energetic and deeply human, Swing Time is a story about friendship and music and true identity, how they shape us and how we can survive them. Moving from north-west London to West Africa, it is an exuberant dance...

Take It Back

Take It Back
  • Author(s): Kia Abdullah
  • Location(s): East London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Jodie Wolfe, a sixteen-year-old girl with severe facial deformities accuses four boys in her class of an unthinkable crime, the community is torn apart. The defendants are four handsome teenagers from hard-working immigrant families, all with proven alibis....

TAKE NO MORE

TAKE NO MORE
  • Author(s): Seb Kirkby
  • Location(s): Florence, London, Venice
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

‘An artistic voyage in crime – thrilling and original’ Julia Blake is a conservator, working with classic art. Her expertise includes imaging beneath the surface of paintings to discover what lies beneath. She is sure that a number of...

Tall Dark and Kilted

Tall Dark and Kilted
  • Author(s): Lizzie Lamb
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands, London, Wester Ross
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Notting Hill Meets Monarch of the Glen Fliss Bagshawe longs for a passport out of Pimlico where she works as a holistic therapist. After attending a party in Notting Hill she loses her job and with it her dream...

Terra Nova

Terra Nova
  • Author(s): Henriette Lazaridis Power
  • Location(s): Antarctica, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

The year is 1910, and two Antarctic explorers, Watts and Heywoud, are racing to the South Pole.  Back in London, Viola, a photo-journalist, harbors love for them both.  In Terra Nova, Henriette Lazaridis seamlessly ushers the reader back and forth between...

TfL: The Story of the London Underground

TfL: The Story of the London Underground
  • Author(s): David Long, Sarah McMenemy (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): N/A

When the first passengers climbed aboard the earliest ever underground train in 1863, it would have been impossible to imagine how the London Underground would change and grow over the next 150 years. From smelly steam trains running along...

The Louder I Will Sing

The  Louder I Will Sing
  • Author(s): Lee Lawrence
  • Location(s): Brixton
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1985 to present day

What would you do if the people you trusted to uphold the law committed a crime against you? Who would you turn to? And how long would you fight them for? On 28th September 1985, Lee Lawrence’s mother Cherry...

The 24-Hour Cafe

The 24-Hour Cafe
  • Author(s): Libby Page
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Welcome to the café that never sleeps. Day and night Stella’s Café opens its doors for the lonely and the lost, the morning people and the night owls. It is many things to many people but most of all...

The Absolute Book

The Absolute Book
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Knox
  • Location(s): London, Auckland, Norfolk, Wye Valley
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Taryn Cornick believes her sister Bea was deliberately run down and killed. She believes it so hard she allows a man called the Muleskinner to exact the justice Bea was denied. An eye for an eye. Which is when...

The Accidental Mother

The Accidental Mother
  • Author(s): Rowan Coleman
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sophie Mills has worked her Manolo Blahniks off to reach the near-top of her profession. And she’s very happy with her priorities in life – her job, her neurotic cat Artemis and her passion for shoes. After all, relationships...

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