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The Match Factory Girls

The Match Factory Girls
  • Author(s): Kay Brellend
  • Location(s): East London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1880's/1890's

When Amelia Spencer finds herself unmarried, pregnant, and cast out by society, she flees to the Bryant & May match factory, searching for her estranged sister, Sadie. But the East End is no refuge – Sadie is trapped in...

The Meal of Fortune

The Meal of Fortune
  • Author(s): Philip Brady
  • Location(s): West London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

A delightfully comic crime thriller bringing together Russian hit-men, M15 spies, the Eurovision song contest and a TV chef. A celebrity agent is hired by a shady Russian billionaire (who is under surveillance by the British Security service) to...

The Memory of Animals

The Memory of Animals
  • Author(s): Claire Fuller
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Neffy is a young woman running away from grief and guilt, and the one big mistake that has derailed her career. When she answers the call to volunteer in a controlled vaccine trial, it offers her a way to...

The Memory of Us

The Memory of Us
  • Author(s): Camille Di Maio
  • Location(s): London, Liverpool
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

Julianne Westcott was living the kind of life that other Protestant girls in prewar Liverpool could only dream about: old money, silk ball gowns, and prominent young men lining up to escort her. But when she learns of a...

The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock

The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock
  • Author(s): Imogen Hermes Gowar
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th Century

SHORLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 One September evening in 1785, the merchant Jonah Hancock finds one of his captains waiting eagerly on his doorstep. He has sold Jonah’s ship for what appears to be a mermaid....

The Mess We’re In

The Mess We’re In
  • Author(s): Annie Macmanus
  • Location(s): Kilburn, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s onwards

I’m a Londoner now. I’m a voice in the noise. I’m ready. It’s the turn of the millennium and, landing in London with nothing but her CD collection and demo tape, Orla Quinn moves into a squalid Kilburn house...

The Midnight Guardians

The Midnight Guardians
  • Author(s): Ross Montgomery, David Dean (illustrator)
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Sometimes at the darkest hour, hope shines the brightest… When Col’s childhood imaginary friends come to life, he discovers a world where myths and legends are real. Accompanied by his guardians – a six-foot tiger, a badger in a...

The Midnight Peacock (The Sinclair’s Mysteries)

The Midnight Peacock (The Sinclair’s Mysteries)
  • Author(s): Katherine Woodfine, Júlia Sardà (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Edwardian era

A fast-paced historical mystery adventure for readers aged 9+ years, with gorgeous Edwardian period detail. Perfect for fans of Chris Riddell’s Goth Girl series, Enid Blyton and Robin Stevens’s Murder Most Unladylike series. You are cordially invited to Sinclair’s...

The Miracle on Ebenezer Street

The Miracle on Ebenezer Street
  • Author(s): Catherine Doyle
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An enchanting tale of Christmas magic from multi-award-winning and bestselling writer Catherine Doyle. A treat for the whole family, perfect for fans of The Christmasaurus and A Boy Called Christmas. ‘An absolute Christmas cracker!’ Ross Montgomery ‘Fizzes with festive...

The Missing Family

The Missing Family
  • Author(s): Tim Weaver
  • Location(s): Dartmoor, London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One family… On a beautiful summer’s day, at a remote lake in the middle of Dartmoor, three members of the Fowler family take a dinghy out onto the water, leaving mother Sarah at the shore. Less than sixty seconds...

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