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The Austen Girls

The Austen Girls
  • Author(s): Lucy Worsley
  • Location(s): Kent
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 19th century

Would she ever find a real-life husband? Would she even find a partner to dance with at tonight’s ball? She just didn’t know. Anna Austen has always been told she must marry rich. Her future depends upon it. While...

The Austrian Bride

The Austrian Bride
  • Author(s): Helen Parusel
  • Location(s): Linz
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Austria, 1938 After years of hardship, Ella is full of hope for a better future for Austrians, and when Hitler marches into Linz, she can’t help but become swept up in the euphoria of her boyfriend, Max. But she...

The Authenticity Project

The Authenticity Project
  • Author(s): Clare Pooley
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Six strangers with one thing in common: their lives aren’t always what they make them out to be. What would happen if they told the truth instead? Julian Jessop is tired of hiding the deep loneliness he feels. So...

The Autograph Man

The Autograph Man
  • Author(s): Zadie Smith
  • Location(s): London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

The Autograph Man follows one Alex-Li Tandem: a twenty-something Chinese-Jewish autograph dealer turned on by sex, drugs and organised religion. From London to New York, love to death, fathers to sons, Alex tries to discover how a piece of...

The Autumn of the Ace

The Autumn of the Ace
  • Author(s): Louis de Bernières
  • Location(s): Peshawar, Canada, England
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s & 1950s

Louis de Bernières is the master of historical fiction that makes you both laugh and cry, in the perfect nostalgic read to escape with this autumn. Is it ever too late to change your story? Daniel Pitt was an...

The Awakening

The Awakening
  • Author(s): Kate Chopin
  • Location(s): Grand Isle
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 19th Century

When ‘The Awakening’ was first published in 1899, charges of sordidness and immorality seemed to consign it into obscurity and irreparably damage its author’s reputation. But a century after her death, it is widely regarded as Kate Chopin’s great...

The Awkward Squad

The Awkward Squad
  • Author(s): Sophie Hénaff
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Suspended from her job as a promising police officer for firing “one bullet too many”, Anne Capestan is expecting the worst when she is summoned to H.Q. to learn her fate. Instead, she is surprised to be told that...

The Aziola’s Cry: A Novel of the Shelleys

The Aziola’s Cry: A Novel of the Shelleys
  • Author(s): Ezra Harker Shaw
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Regency Era

Love, tragedy, and the pursuit of literary greatness intertwine in a tumultuous journey that defies societal norms and tests the resilience of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and Percy Bysshe Shelley. In the year 1814, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, a gifted teenager...

The Baby is Mine

The Baby is Mine
  • Author(s): Oyinkan Braithwaite
  • Location(s): Lagos
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When his girlfriend throws him out during the pandemic, Bambi has to go to his Uncle’s house in lock-down Lagos. He arrives during a blackout, and is surprised to find his Aunty Bidemi sitting in a candlelit room with...

The Bachelor and Spinster Ball

The Bachelor and Spinster Ball
  • Author(s): Janet Gover
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sexy Nick, feisty Bec and dreamy Hailey all grew up together in the tiny town of Farwell Creek. In fact, Nick and Bec were the town’s teen-dream couple, until Bec made a break for it and shook the dust...

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