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Hold

Hold
  • Author(s): Michael Donkor
  • Location(s): Ghana, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Moving between Ghana and London, Hold is an intimate, powerful coming-of-age novel. It’s a story of friendship and family, shame and forgiveness; of learning what we should cling to, and when we need to let go. ‘You have to...

Holding On

Holding On
  • Author(s): Mervyn Jones
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1880s-1960s

This is the story of a street in London’s docklands and of a family who lived in it. The street was built in the 1880s, and the Wheelright family (originally dockers) lived there until its tragic demolition in the...

Home Stretch

Home Stretch
  • Author(s): Graham Norton
  • Location(s): Ireland, Liverpool, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1987 onwards

Shame and longing can flow through generations, but the secrets of the heart will not be buried for ever. It is 1987 and a small Irish community is preparing for a wedding. The day before the ceremony a group...

Homecoming

Homecoming
  • Author(s): Luan Goldie
  • Location(s): Kenya, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 21st century

For years Yvonne has tried to keep her demons buried and focus on moving forward. But her guilt is always with her and weighs heavily on her heart. Kiama has had to grow up without a mother, and while...

Homesick

Homesick
  • Author(s): Catrina Davies
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Aged thirty-one, Catrina Davies was renting a box-room in a house in Bristol, which she shared with four other adults and a child. Working several jobs and never knowing if she could make the rent, she felt like she...

Homework

Homework
  • Author(s): Geoff Dyer
  • Location(s): Cheltenham
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

Born in 1958, the only child of a dinner lady and a sheet-metal worker, Geoff Dyer grew up in a world shaped by memories of shortages and the Second World War. But far from being a story of hardship...

Hooked on You

Hooked on You
  • Author(s): AnneMarie Brear
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Katie Edwards is 28 and single and living the life, or so she thinks. After leaving a leech of a boss, who enjoyed putting the personal in personal assistant, Katie lands a job as a PA for Liam Kennedy,...

Hopeful Hearts at the Cornish Cove

Hopeful Hearts at the Cornish Cove
  • Author(s): Kim Nash
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 2020s

A gorgeous story about community, friendship and having the courage to start over, perfect for fans of Carole Matthews, Milly Johnson and Lucy Dillon – A perfect new start in Cornwall… Meredith’s life is at a standstill. She’s stuck...

Hopeless

Hopeless
  • Author(s): Diane M Dickson
  • Location(s): London, Manchester
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present Day

A light-hearted take on a serious topic! The spring Ewan had in his step before heading to London to look for work quickly disappears when his belongings tumble down a drain and he hits his head. Disorientated and befuddled,...

Horace Fox in the City

Horace Fox in the City
  • Author(s): Jaq Hazell
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A fantastically funny adventure from an award-winning author. Horace Fox is being followed. Deadly hit-snake Zigzag McVitie is after him. Horace has been left a swish den in London but evil Badger Burnhard wants it. Can Horace avoid the...

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