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Absolute Beginners

Absolute Beginners
  • Author(s): Colin MacInnes
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1958

‘I swore by Elvis and all the saints that this last teenage year of mine was going to be a real rave. Yes, man, come whatever, this last year of the teenage dream I was out for kicks and...

After Before

After Before
  • Author(s): Jemma Wayne
  • Location(s): England, Rwanda
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2015 Shortlisted for the Waverton Good Read Award  That was the day that Mama made the rules: If they come, run. Be quiet and run. But not together. Never together. If...

Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death

Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death
  • Author(s): M C Beaton
  • Location(s): The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Revenge is a dish best served warm…High-flying public relations supremo Agatha Raisin has decided to take early retirement. She’s off to make a new life in a picture-perfect Cotswold village. To make friends, she enters the local quiche-making competition...

Agency

Agency
  • Author(s): William Gibson
  • Location(s): London, San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Dystopian, Thriller, Time Slip

San Francisco, 2017. Clinton’s in the White House, Brexit never happened – and Verity Jane’s got herself a new job. They call Verity ‘the app-whisperer,’ and she’s just been hired by a shadowy start-up to evaluate a pair-of-glasses-cum-digital-assistant called...

All the hopeful Lovers

All the hopeful Lovers
  • Author(s): William Nicholson
  • Location(s): Lewes
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

This book loosely follows on from The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life. Belinda wistfully reflects how much better at sex she is now than when she was in her twenties. She’s thought about taking a lover, but ultimately could...

All the Little Bird-Hearts

All the Little Bird-Hearts
  • Author(s): Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
  • Location(s): The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Sunday Forrester lives with her sixteen-year-old daughter, Dolly, in the house she grew up in. She does things more carefully than most people. On quiet days, she must eat only white foods. Her etiquette handbook guides her through confusing...

All Tomorrow’s Parties

All Tomorrow’s Parties
  • Author(s): Nicole Fitton
  • Location(s): Italy, London, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1980

Set in the music industry of 1980’s London, All Tomorrow’s Parties is a journey through life and love. Laine Marshall isn’t a product of the 1980s she is the epitome of it. 18 years of age and working for...

Already Dead

Already Dead
  • Author(s): Stephen Booth
  • Location(s): The Peak District
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

A summer of endless rain in the Peak District leaves the officers of Derbyshire’s CID with a problem. They have discovered a man’s body lying in shallow water, but torrential rain has swollen the rivers and flooded the roads,...

Alys, Always

Alys, Always
  • Author(s): Harriet Lane
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Frances Thorpe, a sub-editor on the books pages of the Questioner, is one of those quiet women it’s advisable to watch. A thirty-something living alone in a shabby north London flat, she’s stuck in a job that she thinks...

Amazing Disgrace

Amazing Disgrace
  • Author(s): James Hamilton-Paterson
  • Location(s): London, Tuscany
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Set both in Tuscany and in the trendy haunts of London, this is the hilarious sequel to Cooking with Fernet Branca. The inimitable Gerald Samper is back, with his musings on the absurdities of modern life and his entertaining...

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