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The Last of the Spirits

The Last of the Spirits
  • Author(s): Chris Priestley
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Victorian Era

Sam and Lizzie are freezing and hungry on the streets of Victorian London. When Sam asks a wealthy man for some coins, he is rudely turned away. Months of struggle suddenly find their focus, and Sam resolves to kill...

The Last of the Warrior Kings

The Last of the Warrior Kings
  • Author(s): Sarah Mussi
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Current day

It’s a snowy evening, South London. From a bus, Max Wolf and his brother Angelo see a gang ominously tracking a well-known rapper, Mogul King, through the dark streets. Minutes later, Mogul King boards the bus, presses a parcel...

The Last Reunion

The Last Reunion
  • Author(s): Kayte Nunn
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar), Galway, London, Oxford
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1945, 1976, 1999

War would bring them together. But would it ultimately tear them apart? Burma, 1945. Bea, Plum, Bubbles, Joy and Lucy are five young women looking for adventure, fighting a forgotten war in the jungle attached to the Fourteenth Army....

The Late Train to Gipsy Hill

The Late Train to Gipsy Hill
  • Author(s): Alan Johnson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Espionage, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

If you know London well, the setting will feel particularly familiar to you..(Emma Hardy) Gary Nelson has a routine for the commute to his rather dull job in the city. Each day, he watches as a woman on the...

The Left-Handed Booksellers of London

The Left-Handed Booksellers of London
  • Author(s): Garth Nix
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Magical Realism
  • Era(s): 1980s

A girl’s quest to find her father leads her to an extended family of magical fighting booksellers who police the mythical Old World of England when it intrudes on the modern world. From the bestselling master of fantasy, Garth...

The Legacy of Eve

The Legacy of Eve
  • Author(s): Natasha Boydell
  • Location(s): Palmers Green, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present Day

Can she discover the truth about her long-lost mother before becoming a mother herself? A tale of fear and family secrets by the author of The Missing Husband. Annie’s mother, Eve, died in childbirth thirty-five years ago. Despite this...

The Lesser Bohemians

The Lesser Bohemians
  • Author(s): Eimear McBride
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

One night an eighteen-year-old Irish girl, recently arrived in London to attend drama school, meets an older man – a well-regarded actor in his own right. While she is naive and thrilled by life in the big city, he...

The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus

The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus
  • Author(s): Emma Knight
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, London, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Pen and Alice, childhood best friends from Toronto, are in their first year at the University of Edinburgh. Each has come to the city for her own reasons. Pen knows her divorced parents back in Canada are hiding something...

The Lighterman

The Lighterman
  • Author(s): Simon Michael
  • Location(s): East London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s

Psychopathic gangster Ronnie Kray has a “List” of persons who have “taken liberties” and who are to be disposed of, and now East End barrister Charles Holborne finds his name at the top of the list. He can’t spend...

The Line of Beauty

The Line of Beauty
  • Author(s): Alan Hollinghurst
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

CHELSEA. Nick Guest has just graduated from Oxford and starts rooming at his friend’s parents house. Gerald Fedden M.P, is the head of the household and mixes in the higher echelons of society. Nick is very taken with the...

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