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The Runaways

The Runaways
  • Author(s): Holly Webb
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): WW2, 1930s

Written by bestselling author Holly Webb, The Runaways beautifully captures the spirit of Great Britain during the Second World War, weaving together themes of resilience, identity and what it means to call a place your home. It’s London in...

The Sandglass

The Sandglass
  • Author(s): Romesh Gunesekera
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon), London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

The Sandglass tells the story of two feuding families whose lives are interlinked by the changing fortunes of postcolonial Sri Lanka. Moving back and forth between London and Sri Lanka, the novel brings to life Prins Ducal and his...

The School of Night

The School of Night
  • Author(s): Karl Ove Knausgaard, Martin Aitken (translator)
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

London. 1985. A city rife with possibility and desire. One young man who wants it all. Kristian Hadeland, newly arrived in the city, seethes with ambition and contempt. His family in Norway never understood him; his fellow photography students...

The Schoolhouse

The Schoolhouse
  • Author(s): Sophie Ward
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s and current

‘The Schoolhouse is taut, gripping and intensely moving right until the very last page. I truly couldn’t put Sophie Ward’s beautifully written novel down’ Susannah Wise, author of This Fragile Earth Isobel lives an isolated life in North London,...

The Seamstress Of Warsaw

The Seamstress Of Warsaw
  • Author(s): Rebecca Mascull
  • Location(s): Poland, London, Warsaw
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Daring, tragic, haunting, and unforgettable – Mascull is a superb writer. – Louisa Treger , author of The Dragon Lady 1940 London A man learns a shocking truth about his past. Warsaw A mother writes a diary as the...

The Second Cup

The Second Cup
  • Author(s): Sarah Marie Graye
  • Location(s): London, Berkhamsted, Blackpool, Manchester
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Would your life unravel if someone you knew committed suicide? Theirs did. Faye’s heart still belongs to her first love, Jack. She knows he might have moved on, but when she decides to track him down, nothing prepares her...

The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley

The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley
  • Author(s): Sean Lusk
  • Location(s): The City of London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1750s

Leadenhall Street, London, 1754. Raised amongst the cogs and springs of his father’s workshop, Zachary Cloudesley has grown up surrounded by strange and enchanting clockwork automata. He is a happy child, beloved by his father Abel and the workmen...

The Secret Book of Flora Lea

The Secret Book of Flora Lea
  • Author(s): Patti Callahan Henry
  • Location(s): England, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2 and later 20th Century

In the war-torn London of 1939, fourteen-year-old Hazel and five-year-old Flora are evacuated to a rural village to escape the horrors of the Second World War. Living with the kind Bridie Aberdeen and her teenage son, Harry, in a...

The Secret Messenger

The Secret Messenger
  • Author(s): Mandy Robotham
  • Location(s): Venice, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1943 /2017

Venice, 1943 The world is at war, and Stella Jilani is leading a double life. By day she works in the lion’s den as a typist for the Reich; by night, she risks her life as a messenger for...

The Secret of Secrets

The Secret of Secrets
  • Author(s): Dan Brown
  • Location(s): Prague, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Robert Langdon, esteemed professor of symbology, travels to Prague to attend a groundbreaking lecture by Katherine Solomon–a prominent noetic scientist with whom he has recently begun a relationship. Katherine is on the verge of publishing an explosive book that...

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