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Of Human Bondage

Of Human Bondage
  • Author(s): William Somerset Maugham
  • Location(s): England, Heidelberg, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Turn of the 20th Century

Of Human Bondage is absoulute Somerset Maugham. The book is set in the last decades of the nineteenth century and, part autobiographical, it is about a young orphan, his apprenticeship in art, then medicine as well as the theme...

Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist
  • Author(s): Charles Dickens
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1800s

The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens’s tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the...

On Brick Lane

On Brick Lane
  • Author(s): Rachel Lichtenstein
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

An assemblage of stunning characters who have populated this much written about street in London. Jewish jewellers, workers at the old Truman Brewery, market workers, artists and writers who live around the street.

One Hundred Christmas Proposals

One Hundred Christmas Proposals
  • Author(s): Holly Martin
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Novella, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

If you thought Harry & Suzie’s life couldn’t get anymore sweepingly romantic than Harry asking her to marry him at the end of One Hundred Proposals – think again! It’s Christmas in a snow-kissed London, and the PerfectProposal.com have...

One of Our Ministers Is Missing

One of Our Ministers Is Missing
  • Author(s): Alan Johnson
  • Location(s): Crete, North London
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Another fast-paced and warm-hearted thriller from award-winning writer, and former MP, Alan Johnson. A government minister in the Foreign Office has vanished into thin air. On holiday in Crete, Lord Bellingham had been solo trekking in the White Mountains...

Open Water

Open Water
  • Author(s): Caleb Azumah Nelson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong, both are now artists – he a photographer, she a dancer – trying...

Ordinary Thunderstorms

Ordinary Thunderstorms
  • Author(s): William Boyd
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

One May evening in London, as a result of a chance encounter and a split-second decision, the young climatologist Adam Kindred loses everything – home, job, reputation, passport, credit cards, money – never to get them back. With the...

Our Evenings

Our Evenings
  • Author(s): Alan Hollinghurst
  • Location(s): England, London, South East England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s to present

Dave Win is thirteen years old when he first goes to stay with the sponsors of his scholarship at a local boarding school. This weekend, with its games and challenges and surprising encounters, will open up heady new possibilities,...

Out of Sight

Out of Sight
  • Author(s): Isabelle Grey
  • Location(s): France, London, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2005 - 2011

Patrick is a loving husband and father, but when his parents come to stay one summer, he is desperate to escape the memories they provoke. Their departure leaves him exhausted and overwhelmed. The last thing he remembers is strapping...

Penguin Underground Lines

Penguin Underground Lines
  • Author(s): Various (Penguin)
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 2013

The sight of subway commuters with their noses buried in books is one that transcends iPods, Angry Birds and any number of technological and cultural advances. It’s only appropriate, then, that Penguin has teamed with Transport for London to...

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