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Us Three

Us Three
  • Author(s): Ruth Jones
  • Location(s): Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Friends forever is a difficult promise to keep… Meet Lana, Judith and Catrin. Best friends since primary school when they swore an oath on a Curly Wurly wrapper that they would always be there for each other, come what...

Utopia Avenue

Utopia Avenue
  • Author(s): David Mitchell
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

The imaginative and award-winning author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell returns to spin a web of music and money as a psychedelic British band in the ‘60s finds fame and fallout among such legends as...

Utrecht Rain

Utrecht Rain
  • Author(s): Jon Wilkins
  • Location(s): Utrecht
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Present Day

We are re-introduced to Hoofsinspecteur Caes Heda, widower and leader of a group of six police officers based at Kroonstraat Police Station in the fine old student town of Utrecht. The novel opens with two of his officers being...

Utrecht Snow

Utrecht Snow
  • Author(s): Jonathan Wilkins
  • Location(s): Utrecht
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present

Utrecht police inspector Caes Heda leads a team looking into the disappearance of young women. Meanwhile his daughter, Truus, bored with University takes up a job with disgraced former police office Thijs Orman at his Private Detective Agency and...

Utz

Utz
  • Author(s): Bruce Chatwin
  • Location(s): Czech Republic
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Bruce Chatwin’s bestselling novel traces the fortunes of the enigmatic and unconventional hero, Kaspar Utz. Despite the restrictions of Cold War Czechoslovakia, Utz asserts his individuality through his devotion to his precious collection of Meissen porcelain. Although Utz is...

V for Victory

V for Victory
  • Author(s): Lissa Evans
  • Location(s): Hampstead
  • Genre(s): Cli-fi, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

It’s late 1944. Hitler’s rockets are slamming down on London with vicious regularity and it’s the coldest winter in living memory. Allied victory is on its way, but it’s bloody well dragging its feet. In a large house next...

V2

V2
  • Author(s): Robert Harris
  • Location(s): Europe
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1944

The first rocket will take five minutes to hit London. You have six minutes to stop the second. Rudi Graf has dreamt since childhood of sending a rocket to the moon. Instead, along with his friend Werner von Braun,...

Vacant Possession

Vacant Possession
  • Author(s): Hilary Mantel
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Wolf Hall’, a savagely funny tale that revisits the characters from the much-loved ‘Every Day is Mother’s Day’. Muriel Axon is about to re-enter the lives of Colin Sidney, hapless husband, father...

Vacationland

Vacationland
  • Author(s): Sarah Stonich
  • Location(s): Minnesota
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On a lake in northernmost Minnesota, you might find Naledi Lodge – only two cabins still standing, its pathways now trodden mostly by memories. And there you might meet Meg, or the ghost of the girl she was, growing...

Vagablonde

Vagablonde
  • Author(s): Anna Dorn
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Prue is a 30-year-old attorney who wants two things, the first is to live without psychotropic medication, and the second is to experience success as a rap artist. Her life is good on paper: she has an easy government...

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