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The Book of Birmingham (Reading the City)

The Book of Birmingham (Reading the City)
  • Author(s): Kavita Bhanot (Editor)
  • Location(s): Birmingham
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

Few cities have undergone such a radical transformation over the last few decades as Birmingham. Culturally and architecturally, it has been in a state of perpetual flux and regeneration, with new communities moving in, then out, and iconic post-war...

The Book of Bradford (A City In Short Fiction)

The Book of Bradford (A City In Short Fiction)
  • Author(s): Saima Mir (Editor)
  • Location(s): Bradford
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

In the year 1905, infamous occultist Aleister Crowley gets more than he bargained for on a passing visit to Bradford… A successful businessman, returning to his native city, suddenly finds himself overwhelmed by a yearning for his youth… A single-mother despairs...

The Book of Days

The Book of Days
  • Author(s): Francesca Kay
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1546

Longlisted for the 2025 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction Longlisted in the 2024 HWA Crown Awards ANNO DOMINI 1546. In a manor house in England a young woman feels the walls are closing around her, while her dying...

The Book of Dreams

The Book of Dreams
  • Author(s): Nina George
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Warm, wise, and magical–the latest novel by the bestselling author of THE LITTLE PARIS BOOKSHOP and THE LITTLE FRENCH BISTRO is an astonishing exploration of the thresholds between life and death Henri Skinner is a hardened ex-war reporter on...

The Book of Echoes

The Book of Echoes
  • Author(s): Rosanna Amaka
  • Location(s): Lagos, Brixton
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

A sweeping, uplifting and inspirational story of how a boy from Brixton and a girl from Lagos reinvent their lives in modern-day London. 1981: England looks forward to a new decade. But on the streets of Brixton, it’s hard...

The Book of Leeds (Reading The City)

The Book of Leeds (Reading The City)
  • Author(s): Tom Palmer, Maria Crossan
  • Location(s): Leeds
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Millgarth Police Station reverberates with the early adrenalin-rush of a case they won’t close for years. A teenage boy trails the city centre bars of the eighties in thrall to his hero – a Leeds United football hooligan. A...

The Book of Liverpool (Reading The World)

The Book of Liverpool (Reading The World)
  • Author(s): Maria Crossan (Editor)
  • Location(s): Liverpool
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A baby blown out of an upstairs window by a WWII bomb lives to hear others tell the tale… A woman embarks on a long-term obsession with a city landmark, abandoning her lover for the Liver… A bricklayer working...

The Book of Sheffield (Reading the City)

The Book of Sheffield (Reading the City)
  • Author(s): Catherine Taylor (Editor)
  • Location(s): Sheffield
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

Known for both its industrial roots and arboreal abundance, Sheffield has always been a city of two halves. From elegant parks and gardens to brutalist high-rise estates and the hinterland nightclubs of ‘Centertainment’, it is a city caught between...

The Bookbinder

The Bookbinder
  • Author(s): Pip Williams
  • Location(s): Oxford
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1914

A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when World War I upends her life in this new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese’s Book...

The Bookbinder of Jericho

The Bookbinder of Jericho
  • Author(s): Pip Williams
  • Location(s): Oxford
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW1

‘Your job is to bind the books, not read them.’ When the men of Oxford University Press leave for the Western Front, Peggy, her twin sister Maude and their friends in the bookbindery must shoulder the burden at home....

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