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Fire Rush

Fire Rush
  • Author(s): Jacqueline Crooks
  • Location(s): Bristol, Jamaica, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s onwards

London, 1978. Yamaye, a woman in her 20s unsure of who she is, but with dreams of being a DJ and MC. Yamaye lives for the weekend, when she can go raving with her friends at The Crypt, an...

Firewatching

Firewatching
  • Author(s): Russ Thomas
  • Location(s): Sheffield
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

A police procedural introducing Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler, a cold case reviewer who lands a high-profile murder investigation, only to find the main suspect is his recent one-night stand . . . When financier Gerald Cartwright disappeared from his...

First and Only Destiny

First and Only Destiny
  • Author(s): Gloria Silk
  • Location(s): London, India
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

First Love… It’s love at first sketch for shy, sheltered art major Lia Abraham, when she meets the Bollywood-gorgeous Devraj Shah at a London university. But she refuses to show her undeniable attraction to the gregarious genius, who is...

First Love, Last Rites

First Love, Last Rites
  • Author(s): Ian McEwan
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 1980s

The fortieth anniversary edition of Ian McEwan’s first book, now with an introduction from the author Forty years on from first publication, these stories display McEwan’s dazzling early talent. Taut, brooding and densely atmospheric, they are stories of sex...

First One Missing

First One Missing
  • Author(s): Tammy Cohen
  • Location(s): Hampstead
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Current

There are three things no-one can prepare you for when your daughter is murdered: – You are haunted by her memory day and night – Your friends and family fear you are going mad – Only in a group...

First, and before all things

First, and before all things
  • Author(s): Kate Wilby
  • Location(s): Norwich
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): c. 1647 – 1724

Mary had little education beyond being able to read and write, no vote and no right to own property. As the kind, pious and unmarried daughter, Mary becomes a carer to those of her kindred affected by mental torment....

Five Days in Venice

Five Days in Venice
  • Author(s): Fiona Collins
  • Location(s): Venice, London
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2018 looking back over 20 years

He’s the old flame she’s tried to put out. But should they rekindle their love—one more time? When bestselling romance novelist Olivia Sackville arrives at Venice’s prestigious winter literary festival, she’s prepared for everything except seeing Leo Greene—Britain’s number-one...

Five Guns Blazing

Five Guns Blazing
  • Author(s): Emma Rose Millar, Kevin Allen
  • Location(s): Barbados, Jamaica, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1720

“Never had she imagined she would be brought so low, and all for the love of a very bad man.” 1710 Convict’s daughter, Laetitia Beedham, is set on an epic journey from the back streets of London, through transportation...

Five Strangers

Five Strangers
  • Author(s): E V Adamson
  • Location(s): Hampstead, London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A gripping new thriller about secrets, obsession and lies When disgraced journalist Jen Hunter witnesses a horrific murder-suicide on Hampstead Heath one February alongside four strangers, she is compelled to find out what really happened that day. They all...

Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London

Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London
  • Author(s): Lauren Elkin
  • Location(s): Paris, London, New York City (NYC), Tokyo, Venice
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Flâneuse , noun, from the French. Feminine form of flâneur , an idler, a dawdling observer, usually found in cities. That is an imaginary definition.’ If the word flâneur conjures up visions of Baudelaire, boulevards and bohemia – then...

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