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Frank and Red

Frank and Red
  • Author(s): Matt Coyne
  • Location(s): North London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Frank and Red are a mess. Frank is a grumpy old curmudgeon. A recluse whose only company is the ‘ghost’ of his dead wife, Marcie. He is estranged from his friends, his son, and the ever-changing world beyond his...

Girl Reading

Girl Reading
  • Author(s): Katie Ward
  • Location(s): Amsterdam, London, Siena
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Various

An orphan poses nervously for a Renaissance maestro in medieval Siena, and an artist’s servant girl in seventeenth-century Amsterdam snatches a moment away from her work to lose herself in tales of knights and battles. A woman reading in...

Girls Who Travel

Girls Who Travel
  • Author(s): Nicole Trilivas
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Last year, Kika Shores was traveling across the globe without a care in the world. Now she’s stuck at home with her mom, pining for a sexy charmer who lives across the big pond. But then Kika lands a...

Good Women

Good Women
  • Author(s): Jane Stevenson
  • Location(s): England, London, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Novella, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

In ‘Light My Fire’ a passionate relationship cannot withstand a clash of tastes and an ancient Aga: a housewife’s life is transformed when she starts to see angels in ‘Walking with Angels’: and ‘Garden Guerillas’ follows a widow plotting...

Great Expectations

Great Expectations
  • Author(s): Charles Dickens
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century and Modern

Considered by many to be Dickens’ finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book’s narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on...

Greenwich Park

Greenwich Park
  • Author(s): Katherine Faulkner
  • Location(s): Greenwich
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Helen has it all… Daniel is the perfect husband. Rory is the perfect brother. Serena is the perfect sister-in-law. And Rachel? Rachel is the perfect nightmare. When Helen, finally pregnant after years of tragedy, attends her first antenatal class,...

Guilty Not Guilty

Guilty Not Guilty
  • Author(s): Felix Francis
  • Location(s): Oxfordshire, London, Welsh Borders
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It is said that everyone over a certain age can remember distinctly what they were doing when they heard that President Kennedy had been assassinated, or that Princess Diana had been killed in a Paris car crash, but I,...

Highly Desirable

Highly Desirable
  • Author(s): Anonymous 1
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Biography
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Tales of London’s super-prime property from the Secret Agent Spanning the course of a year, Max – the alias of London’s most exclusive property agent – guides us through the unimaginable highs and bank-breaking lows of his business, where...

Homesick

Homesick
  • Author(s): Roshi Fernando
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 1980s

17 interrelated short stories. It is New Year’s Eve, 1982, and the whole gang is at Victor and Nandini’s house. The Godfather is on repeat upstairs. Baila music is blaring from the record player in the lounge. Poppadoms are...

Honour

Honour
  • Author(s): Elif Shafak
  • Location(s): London, Türkiye (Turkey)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Leaving her twin sister behind, Pembe leaves Turkey for love – following her husband Adem to London. There the Topraks hope to make new lives for themselves and their children. Yet, no matter how far they travel, the traditions...

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