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Wahala

Wahala
  • Author(s): Nikki May
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ronke, Simi, Boo are three mixed-race friends living in London. They have the gift of two cultures, Nigerian and English, though not all of them choose to see it that way. Everyday racism has never held them back, but...

Walking Pepys’s London

Walking Pepys’s London
  • Author(s): Jacky Colliss Harvey
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Literary Travel
  • Era(s): Modern/17th Century

Samuel Pepys walked round London for miles. The 21/2 miles to Whitehall from his house near the Tower of London was accomplished on an almost daily basis, and so many of his professional conversations took place whilst walking that...

Walking Wounded

Walking Wounded
  • Author(s): Anna Franklin Osborne
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Born at the end of the First World War, a young girl struggles to find her own identity in her big family and is pushed into a stormy marriage through a terrible misunderstanding from which her pride refuses to...

Warlight

Warlight
  • Author(s): Michael Ondaatje
  • Location(s): London, Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century (second half)

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 London, 1945. The capital is still reeling from the war. 14-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister Rachel are abandoned by their parents who leave the country on business, and are left in...

Washington Black

Washington Black
  • Author(s): Esi Edugyan
  • Location(s): Barbados, Canada, London, Morocco
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Historical

When two English brothers take the helm of a Barbados sugar plantation, Washington Black – an eleven year-old field slave – finds himself selected as personal servant to one of these men. The eccentric Christopher ‘Titch’ Wilde is a...

Water Street

Water Street
  • Author(s): J P Maxwell
  • Location(s): Liverpool, Ireland, London, New Orleans
  • Genre(s): Historical, Espionage, Fiction
  • Era(s): Victorian

Liverpool 1863. The American Civil War comes to the British Empire’s second city and the world’s richest port. Confederate Commander Banastre X. Dunwoody has a plan to turn the conflict by securing advanced warships, but the U.S. Government is...

We All Fall Down

We All Fall Down
  • Author(s): Various
  • Location(s): Venice, Edinburgh, Greece, Ireland, Italy, London, Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Medieval, Renaissance

Plague has no favorites. In this anthology, USA Today, international bestselling, and award-winning authors imagine a world where anyone—rich, poor, young, old—might be well in the morning and dead by sundown. Readers will follow in the footsteps of those...

West End Girls

West End Girls
  • Author(s): Jenny Colgan
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

They may be twin sisters, but Lizzie and Penny Berry are complete opposites – Penny is blonde, thin and outrageous: Lizzie quiet, thoughtful and definitely not thin. The one trait they do share is a desire to DO something...

What Happens at Christmas

What Happens at Christmas
  • Author(s): Evonne Wareham
  • Location(s): Brecon Beacons, London
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Kidnapped for Christmas? Best-selling author Andrew Vitruvius knows that any publicity is good publicity. His agent tells him that often, so it must be true. In the run-up to Christmas, she excels herself – talking him into the craziest...

What Red Was

What Red Was
  • Author(s): Rosie Price
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Kate Quaile,’ he said. ‘I like your name.’ Kate frowned. ‘How do you know my name?’ Throughout their four years at university, Kate and Max are inseparable. For him, she breaks her solitude; for her, he leaves his busy...

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