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The Alone Alternative

The Alone Alternative
  • Author(s): Linda MacDonald
  • Location(s): London, Devon, Isles of Scilly
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2012

Former classmates Edward and Marianne, now fifty-five, have experienced a turbulent few years having lost contact with each other and suffered painful disruption to their home lives. Reunited again, this time through Twitter, they set about a search for...

The Apartment

The Apartment
  • Author(s): K L Slater
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

It’s an opportunity she can’t refuse. The woman before her tried… Freya Miller needs a miracle. In the fallout of her husband’s betrayal, she’s about to lose her family home, and with it the security she craves for her...

The Apothecary

The Apothecary
  • Author(s): Maile Meloy
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern

It’s 1952 and the Scott family has just moved from Los Angeles to London. Here, fourteen-year-old Janie meets a mysterious apothecary and his son, Benjamin Burrows—a fascinating boy who’s not afraid to stand up to authority and dreams of...

The Art of a Lie

The Art of a Lie
  • Author(s): Laura Shepherd-Robinson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1749

London, 1749 Hannah Cole’s world shatters following her husband’s brutal murder. Her confectionary shop, the Punchbowl and Pineapple, teeters on the brink of ruin. Just as she uncovers a hidden fortune―money her husband secretly possessed―a new nightmare begins. Magistrate...

The Authenticity Project

The Authenticity Project
  • Author(s): Clare Pooley
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Six strangers with one thing in common: their lives aren’t always what they make them out to be. What would happen if they told the truth instead? Julian Jessop is tired of hiding the deep loneliness he feels. So...

The Autograph Man

The Autograph Man
  • Author(s): Zadie Smith
  • Location(s): London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

The Autograph Man follows one Alex-Li Tandem: a twenty-something Chinese-Jewish autograph dealer turned on by sex, drugs and organised religion. From London to New York, love to death, fathers to sons, Alex tries to discover how a piece of...

The Beast of Buckingham Palace

The Beast of Buckingham Palace
  • Author(s): David Walliams, Tony Ross (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 2120, Future

Fly into a fiery and fantastical future with No. 1 bestselling author David Walliams, in an epic adventure of myth and legend, good and evil, and one small boy who must save the world Illustrated by the artistic genius...

The Boleyn Secret

The Boleyn Secret
  • Author(s): Alison Weir
  • Location(s): London, Southern England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 16th Century

A BOLEYN WOMAN IS NO STRANGER TO SECRETS… At twelve years old, Kate Carey attends her aunt, Queen Anne Boleyn, to the scaffold. Horrified by what she witnesses, Kate is convinced that King Henry VIII has sent an innocent...

The Book Cat

The Book Cat
  • Author(s): Polly Faber, Clara Vulliamy (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): WW2, 1940s

This is a classic wartime tale of a (real!) cat who made his home at the Faber offices and decided he’d never leave. ‘This time we need to get you – get all of the kittens, safe out of...

The Book of Beginnings

The Book of Beginnings
  • Author(s): Sally Page
  • Location(s): London, Highgate
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jo Sorsby is hiding from her past when she agrees to run her uncle’s beloved stationery shop. Glimpsing the lives of her customers between the warm wooden shelves, as they scribble little notes and browse colourful notebooks, distracts her...

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