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London Belongs to Us

London Belongs to Us
  • Author(s): Sarra Manning
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Twelve hours, two boys, one girl . . . and a whole lot of hairspray. Seventeen-year-old Sunny’s always been a little bit of a pushover. But when she’s sent a picture of her boyfriend kissing another girl, she knows...

London, With Love

London, With Love
  • Author(s): Sarra Manning
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Turn of the 21st Century

London. Nine million people. Two hundred and seventy tube stations. Every day, thousands of chance encounters, first dates, goodbyes and happy ever afters. And for twenty years it’s been where one man and one woman can never get their...

Madame Burova

Madame Burova
  • Author(s): Ruth Hogan
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Madame Burova – Tarot Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant is retiring and leaving her booth on the Brighton seafront after fifty years. Imelda Burova has spent a lifetime keeping other people’s secrets and her silence has come at a price....

Malc’s boy

Malc’s boy
  • Author(s): Shaun Wilson
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne, Pattaya, Wigton
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Autofiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘A stunning, hilarious depiction of northern working-class violent masculinity conveyed – in a skewed way – through the form of experimental literary fiction.’ – Chris Kraus, bestselling author of I Love Dick Malc’s Boy charts a son’s struggle and...

Matrix

Matrix
  • Author(s): Lauren Groff
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 12th century

Seventeen-year-old Marie, too wild for courtly life, is thrown to the dogs one winter morning, expelled from the royal court to become the prioress of an abbey. Marie is strange – tall, a giantess, her elbows and knees stick...

Milk Teeth

Milk Teeth
  • Author(s): Jessica Andrews
  • Location(s): The North East (England), Barcelona, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the author of the award-winning Saltwater comes a beautifully told love story set across England, France and Spain. A girl grows up in the north of England amid scarcity, precarity and the toxic culture of heroin chic, believing...

Monsoon Memories

Monsoon Memories
  • Author(s): Renita D'Silva
  • Location(s): Bangalore (Bengaluru), Harrow, Udupi
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Exiled from her family in India for more than a decade, Shirin and her husband lead a comfortable but empty life in London. Memories of her childhood – exotic fragrances, colours, stifling heat and tropical storms – fill Shirin...

Mr Loverman

Mr Loverman
  • Author(s): Bernardine Evaristo
  • Location(s): Hackney, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s onwards

Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he’s lived in Hackney since the sixties. A flamboyant, wise-cracking local character with a dapper taste in retro suits and a fondness for quoting...

Murder At Elm House

Murder At Elm House
  • Author(s): Helena Dixon
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1930s

1934. Accidental amateur sleuth Kitty Underhay is being escorted by ex-army captain Matthew Bryant on an errand of mercy, as she takes a basket of grapes to her nemesis Mrs Craven, who is recuperating from a recent operation. But...

Murder At The Allotment

Murder At The Allotment
  • Author(s): Julie Wassmer
  • Location(s): Whitstable
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Whitstable Pearl Mysteries Book 10) Pearl’s tiny garden of Eden is transformed into a battlefield when the out of towners come to Whitstable… Pearl Nolan’s coastal allotment has always been a quiet haven – somewhere for her to relax...

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