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Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years

Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years
  • Author(s): Sue Townsend
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

Sunday 1st July NO SMOKING DAY A momentous day! Smoking in a public place or place of work is forbidden in England. Though if you a lunatic, a prisoner, an MP or a member of the Royal Family you...

Adrift

Adrift
  • Author(s): Will Dean
  • Location(s): The Midlands
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Three of them adrift on the narrowboat. Mother, son, and wickedness. Peggy Jenkins and her teenage son, Samson, live on a remote stretch of canal in the Midlands. She is a writer and he is a schoolboy. Together, they...

Adults

Adults
  • Author(s): Emma Jane Unsworth
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘HILARIOUS’ Stylist ‘DAZZLING’ Marian Keyes ‘WITTY’ Guardian ‘HEARTBREAKING’ Dolly Alderton ‘INCREDIBLE’ Candice Carty-Williams Jenny is unloved, unemployable and emotionally unfiltered. Her long-suffering friends seem sick of her and whilst her social media portrays her life...

After Leaving the Village

After Leaving the Village
  • Author(s): Helen Matthews
  • Location(s): Albania, London
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Suspense
  • Era(s): Present day

Two women. Two villages. Different destinies. Odeta’s life has shrunk to a daily round of drudgery, running her father’s grocery store in a remote Albanian village. One day an enigmatic stranger from Tirana walks into the shop and promises...

After Phoenix

After Phoenix
  • Author(s): Martine McDonagh
  • Location(s): Bristol
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1973-1974

A darkly comic tale of family, friendship and grief. When Penny’s older brother is killed in a motorbike accident, her mother is admitted to the local psychiatric hospital and her father moves into the garden shed, leaving Penny alone...

After She Fell

After She Fell
  • Author(s): Mary-Jane Riley
  • Location(s): Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set on the North Norfolk coast. There are so many ways to fall… Catriona needs help. Her seventeen-year-old daughter Elena was found dead at the bottom of a cliff near her boarding school. The death has been ruled a...

After the Party

After the Party
  • Author(s): Cressida Connolly
  • Location(s): Sussex, Isle of Man
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

‘I always wanted to be friends with both my sisters. Perhaps that was the source, really, of all the troubles of my life…’ It is the summer of 1938 and Phyllis Forrester has returned to England after years abroad....

After The Sleepover

After The Sleepover
  • Author(s): Kerry Wilkinson
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Present Day

“Gone. They’re gone.” Dylan’s wide-eyed mother bites her nails in desperation. “All three kids. They wanted to sleep outside. But I went to check this morning and… the tents are empty. They’re gone.” Twenty-five years ago: teenage Leah had...

After the Sun

After the Sun
  • Author(s): Katharine E Smith
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): present-day

When things seem too good to be true, they usually are. Alice is finding her feet managing the Sail Loft Hotel when Sam is presented with an offer he can’t refuse. The bad news is, if he says yes,...

After You’d Gone

After You’d Gone
  • Author(s): Maggie O'Farrell
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s and looking back

AFTER YOU’D GONE is the groundbreaking debut novel from the Costa-Award winning Maggie O’Farrell, author of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE and I AM, I AM, I AM. It is a stunning, best-selling novel of wrenching love and grief....

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