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Transit

Transit
  • Author(s): Rachel Cusk
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In the wake of her family’s collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of this upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions–personal, moral, artistic, and practical–as she endeavors to construct a...

Troublemakers

Troublemakers
  • Author(s): Catherine Barter
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

In three years I will be able to vote and I will still have less power than I did at the moment that I saw that email, which was such a tiny thing but look what happened. Fifteen-year-old Alena...

True Blue

True Blue
  • Author(s): Joe Thomas
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Political, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

New Year’s Eve 1988. An illegal rave in Hackney. Acid House has arrived in the UK. But the Second Summer of Love is no golden era for Britain. A decade of Thatcher is starting to bite and her planned...

Trust Me

Trust Me
  • Author(s): T M Logan
  • Location(s): London, The Home Counties
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

TWO STRANGERS. A CHILD. AND A SPLIT SECOND CHOICE THAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING. The chance encounter Ellen was just trying to help a stranger. Giving a few minutes respite to a flustered young mother sitting opposite her on the...

Truth Be Told

Truth Be Told
  • Author(s): Kia Abdullah
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Kamran Hadid feels invincible. He attends Hampton school, an elite all-boys boarding school in London, he comes from a wealthy family, and he has a place at Oxford next year. The world is at his feet. And then a...

Turn a Blind Eye

Turn a Blind Eye
  • Author(s): Vicky Newham
  • Location(s): East London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller

A headmistress is found strangled in an East London school, the victim of a ritualistic act of violence. Found at the scene is a single piece of card, upon which is written an ancient Buddhist precept: I SHALL ABSTAIN...

Turn Right At The Rainbow: A Diary of Househunting, Happenstance and Home

Turn Right At The Rainbow: A Diary of Househunting, Happenstance and Home
  • Author(s): Roz Morris
  • Location(s): Cheshire, London, Surrey
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Current

Place-driven memoir about searching for home in the UK You don’t find home. Home finds you. Roz has lived in her London house for thirty years. She arrived there bewildered and reckless, moving in with a man she’d known...

Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas

Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas
  • Author(s): Adam Kay
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Humour
  • Era(s): 2021

The number one Sunday Times bestseller, Adam Kay’s festive hospital diaries, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas, is the perfect stocking filler from the author of multi-million-copy bestseller This is Going to Hurt – now a major BBC TV series....

Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky

Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky
  • Author(s): Patrick Hamilton
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

Bob – bartender in a pub just off the Euston Road – is desperate to become a writer. He inherits a small sum of money and carefully builds it up, but the arrival Jenny Maples changes his life… (Part...

Two O’Clock Boy

Two O’Clock Boy
  • Author(s): Mark Hill
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Conteporary

TWO CHILDHOOD FRIENDS… ONE BECAME A DETECTIVE… ONE BECAME A KILLER… Thirty years ago, the Longacre Children’s Home stood on a London street where once-grand Victorian homes lay derelict. There its children lived in terror of Gordon Tallis, the...

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