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Little Museum of Hope

Little Museum of Hope
  • Author(s): Sally Jenkins
  • Location(s): Birmingham, Zagreb
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present Day

An utterly uplifting and emotional story from award-winning Sally Jenkins. Vanessa is starting again at fifty-five after a betrayal ends her thirty-year marriage. She decides it’s time to follow her dream of opening a teashop. To attract customers, her...

Little Wilson and Big God

Little Wilson and Big God
  • Author(s): Anthony Burgess
  • Location(s): Manchester
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): First half of the 20th Century

The first volume of the autobiography by Anthony Burgess tells of a disaffected Manchester Catholic from his birth in 1917. It is a candid book of confessions, evocative of English life up to the start of his career as...

Live a Little

Live a Little
  • Author(s): Howard Jacobson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything – including her own children....

Liverpool Forgotten Landscapes, Forgotten Lives

Liverpool Forgotten Landscapes, Forgotten Lives
  • Author(s): John Hussey
  • Location(s): Liverpool
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1500s to 1900s

Forgotten Landscapes… Despite the proud boast of the Liverpudlians of today that there has always been a Liverpool and always will be a Liverpool, the truth is that for many centuries the world got on quite well without us,...

Liverpool Miss

Liverpool Miss
  • Author(s): Helen Forrester
  • Location(s): Liverpool
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Pre WW2

The second volume of Helen Forrester’s powerful, painful and ultimately uplifting four-volume autobiography of her poverty-stricken childhood in Liverpool during the Depression. The Forrester family are slowly winning their fight for survival. But fourteen-year-old Helen’s personal battle is to...

Local Resistance

Local Resistance
  • Author(s): J G Harlond
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Second World War

Make Do and Murder . . . Porthferris near Looe in Cornwall is a little fishing village with a lot of secrets. On a stormy night in March, 1941, Maisie Rose Hawkins leaves her husband, Stan, drunk as usual,...

Lockwood & Co: The Screaming Staircase

Lockwood & Co: The Screaming Staircase
  • Author(s): Jonathan Stroud
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

When the dead come back to haunt the living, Lockwood & Co. step in . . . For more than fifty years, the country has been affected by a horrifying epidemic of ghosts. A number of Psychic Investigations Agencies...

London belongs to Me

London belongs to Me
  • Author(s): Norman Collins
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1938 onwards

A group of Londoners set against the background of impending war, their individual stories, told with panache. Day to day lives vividly portrayed, the eccentrics, the comedy, and the heroism of the individaul.

London Belongs to Me

London Belongs to Me
  • Author(s): Jacquelyn Middleton
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Alex Sinclair couldn’t jump on a plane fast enough. Broken from an unexpected betrayal, she flees sunny Florida for the Britannia cool of London—home of her favourite TV shows, plays, and fangirl heroes. Alex believes London is where she...

London Bridge is Falling Down

London Bridge is Falling Down
  • Author(s): Christopher Fowler
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It was the kind of story that barely made the news. When 91-year-old Alice Hoffman died in her top-floor flat on a busy London road, it’s upheld as an example of what has gone wrong with modern society: she...

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