- Location(s): Isle of Sheppey
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Wide Open is set on the Isle of Sheppey, “a strange place, flat and empty like the moon.” On the island is a nudist beach, a nature reserve, a wild boar farm and not much else. The landscape is...
- Location(s): Dominica, Jamaica
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1830s
A prequel to Jane Eyre, telling the story of the Creole heiress Antoinette, the “mad woman in the attic”. Born into the oppressive, colonialist society of Jamaica, white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn...
- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s to 1990s
- Location(s): London, United Kingdom
- Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future, Dystopian
- Era(s): 1953
To control the past, they edited history. To control the future, they edited literature. London, 1953, Coronation year – but not the Coronation of Elizabeth II. Thirteen years have passed since a Grand Alliance between Great Britain and Germany...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Romance, LGBTQIA+
- Era(s): contemporary
Set in the world of London academia, both past and present, Wife by Charlotte Mendelson is heart-breaking and funny, profound and gripping, as it takes the reader from the end of a relationship to its beginning, and back again....
- Location(s): Nantucket
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1849
A gorgeous debut, laced through with magic, following four generations of women as they seek to chart their own futures. Evangeline Hussey has made a home for herself on Nantucket, though she knows she is still an outsider to...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Victorian Era
A fiendishly pacy mystery-adventure story for 9+ readers, set in the seamy, smoggy underworld of Victorian London. BEHOLD THE SAVAGE SPECTACLE OF THE WILD BOY! London, 1841. A boy covered in hair, raised as a monster, condemned to life...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Victorian Era
The second in a series of pacy, mystery-adventure stories, set in the seamy, smoggy underworld of Victorian London. A new sensation grips London – a poisoner who strikes without a trace, leaving victims mad with terror … and then...
- Location(s): Wimbledon
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
It’s never too late to follow your dreams… Twenty years ago, Abigail Patterson put her promising tennis career on hold to have her baby son, Robbie. But after a wild card entry to Wimbledon, she suddenly finds herself swept...
- Location(s): Multiple locations
- Genre(s): Children, Nonfiction
- Era(s): N/A
Picture a city. What do you see? Traffic and towering buildings? Or maybe you imagine something a little . . . wilder? These are the astonishing stories of the animals who are adapting to live in our urban world...
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