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England Expects

England Expects
  • Author(s): Sara Sheridan
  • Location(s): Brighton, Cambridge, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

1953, Brighton, London and Cambridge. When sports hack Joey Gillingham is murdered in a barber’s chair the reason he is in Brighton for the day is unclear. His body is whisked away mysteriously and ex-Secret Service backroom girl Mirabelle...

England’s Lane

England’s Lane
  • Author(s): Joseph Connolly
  • Location(s): England, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s, 1960s

Jim and Milly. Stan and Jane. Jonathan and Fiona. Winter, 1959. Three married couples: each living in England’s Lane, each with an only child, and each attending to family, and their livelihoods – the ironmonger, the sweetshop and the...

England, England

England, England
  • Author(s): Julian Barnes
  • Location(s): England, Isle of Wight
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Novella
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

What constitutes England and Englishness? The plot revolves around a businessman’s attempt to create a legacy by creating a sort of mini-England on the Isle of Wight (The Island). A Utopia-cum-Dystopia what is “englishness” – Robin Hood? Fish and...

Engleby

Engleby
  • Author(s): Sebastian Faulks
  • Location(s): Cambridge
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Mike Engleby has a secret… This is the story of Mike Engleby, a working-class boy who wins a place at an esteemed English university. But with the disappearance of Jennifer, the undergraduate Engleby admires from afar, the story turns...

English Passengers

English Passengers
  • Author(s): Matthew Kneale
  • Location(s): Isle of Man, Tasmania
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1800s

Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley wants only to smuggle a little tobacco, brandy and French pornography from the Isle of Mann to a secluded beach in England. Yet somehow in the process he and his crew end up weighing anchor...

Entry Island

Entry Island
  • Author(s): Peter May
  • Location(s): Gulf of St Lawrence

When Detective Sime Mackenzie boards a light aircraft at Montreal’s St. Hubert airfield, he does so without looking back. For Sime, the 850-mile journey ahead represents an opportunity to escape the bitter blend of loneliness and regret that has...

Epiphany

Epiphany
  • Author(s): Susan Slater
  • Location(s): Florida
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

It’s Christmas in St. Augustine, where Dan and Elaine Mahoney are taking an extended honeymoon. But not all is sunny in Florida when Dan’s company sends him to investigate the theft of 1.2 million dollars’ worth of religious relics...

Epiphany Jones

Epiphany Jones
  • Author(s): Michael Grothaus
  • Location(s): Cannes, Mexico, Oporto (Porto), United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jerry has a traumatic past that leaves him subject to psychotic hallucinations and depressive episodes. When he stands accused of stealing a priceless Van Gogh painting, he goes underground, where he develops an unwilling relationship with a woman who...

Ermita: A Filipino Novel

Ermita: A Filipino Novel
  • Author(s): F Sionil José
  • Location(s): Manila
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Set mainly during the pre-martial law era of the 1950s, the story takes its reader back to the arrogant world of Ermita, the former “rich district” of the Philippine Republic.

Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
  • Author(s): Balli Kaur Jaswal
  • Location(s): Southall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

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