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The Year That Changed Us

The Year That Changed Us
  • Author(s): Helen Rolfe
  • Location(s): Bath, Paris
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

As young women, Lise and Emma had the kind of friendship people dream about. While Lise’s own family was distant and disengaged, Emma’s was welcoming and warm, and for the first twenty-six years of their life, growing up together...

Their Silent Graves

Their Silent Graves
  • Author(s): Carla Kovach
  • Location(s): The Midlands
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Some lies won’t stay buried forever… Cherie sees the anger on her husband’s face. She’s late home from work. Again. He’s always like this when she doesn’t call, and she’s scared he wouldn’t believe her even if she could...

Themis

Themis
  • Author(s): Paul Weil
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): Modern

SARAH CASTLE is a young celebrity reporter from London who stumbles upon the mystery of twelve extraordinary teenagers. One of them is HENRY BAXTER, an eighteen year-old unknown runner who just won The London Marathon. She accepts a position...

There’s Something About Cornwall

There’s Something About Cornwall
  • Author(s): Daisy James
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A knight in a shining camper van! Life is far from picture perfect for food photographer, Emilie Roberts. Not only has her ex-boyfriend cheated on her, he’s also stolen her dream assignment to beautiful Venice! Instead, Emilie is heading to the...

Things a Bright Girl Can Do

Things a Bright Girl Can Do
  • Author(s): Sally Nicholls
  • Location(s): East London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Suffragette Movement

Through rallies and marches, in polite drawing rooms and freezing prison cells and the poverty-stricken slums of the East End, three courageous young women join the fight for the vote. Evelyn is seventeen, and though she is rich and...

Things in Jars

Things in Jars
  • Author(s): Jess Kidd
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Victorian times

London, 1863. Bridie Devine, the finest female detective of her age, is taking on her toughest case yet. Reeling from her last job and with her reputation in tatters, a remarkable puzzle has come her way. Christabel Berwick has...

Thirteen

Thirteen
  • Author(s): Tom Hoyle
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

Born at midnight in London, on the stroke of the new millennium, Adam is the target of a cult that believes boys born on this date must die before the end of their thirteenth year. Twelve boys have been...

This Could Be Everything

This Could Be Everything
  • Author(s): Eva Rice
  • Location(s): Notting Hill
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1990

It’s 1990 and the streets of Notting Hill in London are filled with colour, life and the pulse of music from around the world. But behind the front door at 51 St Quentin Avenue, nineteen-year-old February Kingdom is Not...

This Is How It Ends

This Is How It Ends
  • Author(s): Eva Dolan
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

This is how it begins. With a near-empty building, the inhabitants forced out of their homes by property developers. With two women: idealistic, impassioned blogger Ella and seasoned campaigner, Molly. With a body hidden in a lift shaft. But...

This is London

This is London
  • Author(s): Ben Judah
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

This is London in the eyes of its beggars, bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers, witch-doctors and sex workers.  This is London in the voices of Arabs, Afghans, Nigerians, Poles, Romanians and Russians. This is London as you’ve never seen it...

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