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London and the South-East

London and the South-East
  • Author(s): David Szalay
  • Location(s): Hove, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The central character Paul is a man on the edge: alcoholic and seller of worthless ads in uncirculated magazines. He commutes from his suburban life in Hove on the south coast into London, to his pedestrian world of work,...

London Orbital

London Orbital
  • Author(s): Iain Sinclair
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2000s

Yes,this one man’s trip around the M25 – a walk in several stages, from Waltham Abbey to Shenley, Abbots Langley to Staines, Staines to Epsom and Epsom to Westerham before going on to Dartford, the river and Carfax and...

Meet Me At The Cupcake Café

Meet Me At The Cupcake Café
  • Author(s): Jenny Colgan
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Issy Randall has baked all her life, taught by her Grandfather. It is a hobby she keeps up, trying out recipes with flatmate Helena. After being made redundant she takes the plunge and with a group of people around,...

Mile High

Mile High
  • Author(s): Rebecca Chance
  • Location(s): London, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

First class is about to get dangerous . . . Pure Air’s new LuxeLiner is flying from London to LA – its inaugural journey – with a first-class cabin packed with A List celebrities. As the feuding crew compete...

Monte Carlo

Monte Carlo
  • Author(s): Peter Terrin
  • Location(s): Monte Carlo, England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1960s

It is the Monaco Grand Prix in May 1968. Jack Preston, a mechanic for Team Sutton, is making the final checks on his car as the beau monde mingles with the drivers under the eyes of the world’s press...

Mr. MacGregor

Mr. MacGregor
  • Author(s): Alan Titchmarsh
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Rob MacGregor, hired to recapture the declining audience for a daytime gardening programme, quickly becomes Britain’s latest heartthrob. The only trouble is, Rob’s co-presenter is not at all pleased to see his thunder stolen. Nor is Rob’s longterm girlfriend,...

Nothing Else

Nothing Else
  • Author(s): Louise Beech
  • Location(s): Caribbean, Hull, New York City (NYC), The Atlantic Ocean
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Heather Harris is a piano teacher and professional musician, whose quiet life revolves around music, whose memories centre on a single song that haunts her. A song she longs to perform again. A song she wrote as a child,...

Old Gold

Old Gold
  • Author(s): Jay Stringer
  • Location(s): Wolverhampton
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Half-gypsy detective Eoin Miller finds people for a living-usually people who would do anything to remain hidden. Ironic considering Eoin has done all he can to lose himself in a downward spiral that has cost him his job, his...

On Chesil Beach

On Chesil Beach
  • Author(s): Ian McEwan
  • Location(s): Dorset
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1962

It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come…

On the Floor

On the Floor
  • Author(s): Aifric Campbell
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1991

Geri Molloy is earning a huge salary working at a London investment bank just before the 1991 invasion of Kuwait. She is in on the verge of a breakdown, her boyfriend has left, she hardly sleeps and eats, and...

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