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Earth’s Time: The Hidden City of Chelldrah-ham: Book 4

Earth’s Time: The Hidden City of Chelldrah-ham: Book 4
  • Author(s): Stephan von Clinkerhoffen
  • Location(s): Winchcombe
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Past, present and future

In Earth’s Time, the fourth book of the award-winning science fiction and fantasy series, The Hidden City of Chelldrah-ham, Stig and Meg find themselves back in their world. They arrive in Chelldrah-ham, having passed through the rift from Earth....

East of Hounslow

East of Hounslow
  • Author(s): Khurrum Rahman
  • Location(s): Hounslow
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Meet Jay. Small-time dealer. Accidental jihadist. The one man who can save us all? Javid – call him Jay – is a dope dealer living in West London. He goes to mosque on Friday, and he’s just bought his...

Edie and the Box of Flits

Edie and the Box of Flits
  • Author(s): Kate Wilkinson, Joe Berger (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A modern classic for readers of THE BORROWERS – about eleven-year-old Edie Winter and her magical box of winged people that only children can see. When eleven-year-old Edie Winter finds a mysterious box on the London Underground she’s amazed...

Edward Trencom’s Nose

Edward Trencom’s Nose
  • Author(s): Giles Milton
  • Location(s): The City of London
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1960s

Edward Trencom has bumbled through life, relying on his trusty nose to turn the family cheese shop into the most celebrated fromagerie in England. But his world is turned upside down when he stumbles across a crate of family...

Eleanor’s Secret

Eleanor’s Secret
  • Author(s): Caroline Beecham
  • Location(s): London, Kent, Melbourne
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Dual timeline of Second World War and 2016

An engrossing wartime mystery of past deceptions, family secrets and long-lasting love. Shifting between a Second World War ravaged London and the present day, Eleanor’s Secret is a surprising mystery and compelling love story. London, 1942: When art school...

Ella’s Ice-Cream Summer

Ella’s Ice-Cream Summer
  • Author(s): Sue Watson
  • Location(s): Appledore
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Life hasn’t always been easy for single mum Ella, but she has just hit an all-time low; she’s jobless, loveless, very nearly homeless and, to make matters worse, now the owner of a pocket-sized pooch with a better wardrobe...

Elmet

Elmet
  • Author(s): Fiona Mozley
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Daniel is heading north. He is looking for someone. The simplicity of his early life with Daddy and Cathy has turned sour and fearful. They lived apart in the house that Daddy built for them with his bare hands....

Elsetime

Elsetime
  • Author(s): Eve McDonnell, Holly Ovenden (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1928

It’s January 1928, the day before the great flood. There’s a snowstorm and the river is about to burst its banks-fourteen souls will be lost. Can Glory an orphan with only one hand and her time-travelling friend Needle and...

Elsewhere, Home

Elsewhere, Home
  • Author(s): Leila Aboulela
  • Location(s): Khartoum, Aberdeen, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Winner of the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year Award 2018 From one of our finest contemporary writers whose work has been praised by J.M. Coetzee, Ali Smith and Aminatta Forna, Leila Aboulela’s Elsewhere, Home offers us a...

Emily Brontë: A Life in 20 Poems

Emily Brontë: A Life in 20 Poems
  • Author(s): Nick Holland
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 19th century

Whilst Emily Brontë wrote only one novel, the mysterious and universally adored Wuthering Heights, she is widely acknowledged as the best poet of the Bronte sisters, and indeed as one of the greatest female poets of all time. Taking...

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