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You Me Everything

You Me Everything
  • Author(s): Catherine Isaac
  • Location(s): Dordogne
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Set in the French countryside over one hot summer, You Me Everything is a tender novel about finding joy and love even in the most unexpected places. Jess and her ten-year-old son William set off to spend the summer...

You Must Set Forth at Dawn

You Must Set Forth at Dawn
  • Author(s): Wole Soyinka
  • Location(s): Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Second half 20th century

The first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as a political activist of prodigious energies, Wole Soyinka now follows his modern classic Ake: The Years of Childhood with an equally important chronicle of his turbulent...

You People

You People
  • Author(s): Nikita Lalwani
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Pizzeria Vesuvio looks like any other Italian restaurant in London – with a few small differences. The chefs who make the pizza fiorentinas are Sri Lankan, and half the kitchen staff are illegal immigrants. At the centre is...

You Then, Me Now

You Then, Me Now
  • Author(s): Nick Alexander
  • Location(s): Santorini
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s/present day

Laura has been hiding the truth from her daughter Becky about who her father was. A surprise visit to Santorini leads to past secrets being exposed and a new future for both of them.

You Truly Assumed

You Truly Assumed
  • Author(s): Laila Sabreen
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In this compelling and thought-provoking debut novel, after a terrorist attack rocks the country and anti-Islamic sentiment stirs, three Black Muslim girls create a space where they can shatter assumptions and share truths. Sabriya has her whole summer planned...

You Wish!

You Wish!
  • Author(s): James Collins
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Humour
  • Era(s): 1990s

A trainee witch, an East End lad made good, an art student and a homophobic gym instructor. Whoever could guess that a chance meeting of these five people could lead to such madness and mayhem, could cause a riot...

You’d Be Mine

You’d Be Mine
  • Author(s): Erin Hahn
  • Location(s): Michigan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Annie Mathers is America’s sweetheart and heir to a country music legacy full of all the things her Gran warned her about. Superstar Clay Coolidge is most definitely going to end up one of those things. But unfortunately for...

You’re Invited

You’re Invited
  • Author(s): Amanda Jayatissa
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Amaya is invited to Kaavi’s over-the-top wedding in Sri Lanka, Amaya is surprised and a little hurt to hear from her former best-friend after so many years of radio silence. But when Amaya learns that the groom is...

You’ve Got Cake

You’ve Got Cake
  • Author(s): Susan Willis
  • Location(s): Surbiton
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2021

With a teenage daughter to raise and a bakery to run Michelle struggles to find time for herself. She has put her heart and soul into her cake shop, and the business is going from strength to strength. When...

Young Jane Young

Young Jane Young
  • Author(s): Gabrielle Zevin
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This is the story of five women . . . Meet Rachel Grossman. She’ll stop at nothing to protect her daughter, Aviva, even if it ends up costing her everything. Meet Jane Young. She’s disrupting a quiet life with...

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