- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): WW2, 1940s
This is a classic wartime tale of a (real!) cat who made his home at the Faber offices and decided he’d never leave. ‘This time we need to get you – get all of the kittens, safe out of...
- Location(s): North Carolina
- Genre(s): Fiction, Magical Realism
- Era(s): Contemporary
New York Times bestselling author Karen Hawkins crafts an unforgettable story about a sleepy Southern town, two fiercely independent women, and a truly magical friendship. Sarah Dove is no ordinary bookworm. To her, books have always been more than...
- Location(s): Dun Laoghaire
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Izzy O’Brien flees the city centre apartment she shared with her controlling partner, she relocates to the seaside town of Dun Laoghaire, and the house she inherited from her aunt. Isolated and insecure, Izzy is relieved to be...
- Location(s): Cambridgeshire
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
A group of old friends reunite for an idyllic week-long retreat. By Friday, their lives will never be the same again… In August, eight friends gather at a house in the Cambridgeshire countryside for a week-long writers’ retreat. There...
- Location(s): Harlem
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 20th Century
In the 1930s, Lewis’s dad, Lewis Michaux Sr., had an itch he needed to scratch a book itch. How to scratch it? He started a bookstore in Harlem and named it the National Memorial African Bookstore. And as far...
- Location(s): Wivenhoe, Essex
- Genre(s): Police Procedural
- Era(s): 1990s
Even the most respectable people have secrets. Sometimes those secrets get them killed. Janet West and Laura Stebbing operate the mobile library that travels the villages of north-east Essex on a schedule as precise as a railway timetable. Janet...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
Saint Petersburg, 1905. Behind the gates of the Karenin Palace, Sergei, son of Anna Karenina, meets Tolstoy in his dreams and finds reminders of his mother everywhere: the vivid portrait that the tsar intends to acquire and the opium-infused...
- Location(s): London, Highgate
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Jo Sorsby is hiding from her past when she agrees to run her uncle’s beloved stationery shop. Glimpsing the lives of her customers between the warm wooden shelves, as they scribble little notes and browse colourful notebooks, distracts her...
The Book of Beijing: Reading The City
- Location(s): Beijing (Peking)
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
Bringing together fiction from celebrated writers, The Book of Beijing is an anthology of short stories charting the social and and cultural change of Beijing over the last fifty years, creating a literary map of the city.
The Book of Birmingham (Reading the City)
- Location(s): Birmingham
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
Few cities have undergone such a radical transformation over the last few decades as Birmingham. Culturally and architecturally, it has been in a state of perpetual flux and regeneration, with new communities moving in, then out, and iconic post-war...
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