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Amber (Working Girls #4)

Amber (Working Girls #4)
  • Author(s): Heather Burnside
  • Location(s): Manchester
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

NOBODY TO CALL With a mother unfit for purpose and a brother who despises her, working girl Amber can rely on no one but herself – until the meanest pimp in Manchester, Kevin Pike, offers her his protection. Unfortunately,...

Americanah

Americanah
  • Author(s): Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Location(s): London, Nigeria, North America
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

From the award-winning author of ‘Half of a Yellow Sun,’ a powerful story of love, race and identity. As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the...

An Accident in Paris

An Accident in Paris
  • Author(s): Gavin Collinson
  • Location(s): London, South East England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present back to 1997

HE’S INVESTIGATING THE DEATH OF A PRINCESS. THE TRUTH COULD COST HIM HIS LIFE. AUGUST 1997: A PRINCESS DIES IN PARIS. NOW, MARC NOVAK MUST FIND OUT WHAT REALLY HAPPENED. When private investigator Marc Novak is hired to investigate...

An Alphabet of London

An Alphabet of London
  • Author(s): Christopher Brown
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

London is the only city in the world where you could ever find Gilbert and George sharing space with the Gherkin and the Globe while the Great Fire burns and a gin drinker glugs her favorite tipple, and where...

An Appetite for Violets

An Appetite for Violets
  • Author(s): Martine Bailey
  • Location(s): Florence, Lancashire, Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Food and Drink, Mystery
  • Era(s): Turn of the 18th Century

“That’s how it is for us servants. No one pays you much heed; mostly you’re invisible as furniture. Yet you overhear a conversation here, and add a little gossip there. Then you find something, something you should not have...

An Equal Music

An Equal Music
  • Author(s): Vikram Seth
  • Location(s): London, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

When The Maggiore, an English Quartet undertakes a challenging work of Beethoven’s, violinist Michael Holme is taken back to memories of playing this piece in Vienna as a student. At the same time he falls in love with Julia...

An Instance of the Fingerpost

An Instance of the Fingerpost
  • Author(s): Iain Pears
  • Location(s): Oxford
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1660s

The year is 1663, and the setting is Oxford, England, during the height of Restoration political intrigue. When Dr Robert Grove is found dead in his Oxford room, hands clenched and face frozen in a rictus of pain, all...

An Uncertain Place

An Uncertain Place
  • Author(s): Fred Vargas
  • Location(s): France, London, Serbia
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

This is the sixth novel featuring Commissaire Adamsberg that has been translated into English. It starts in London, at Highgate Cemetery where Adamsberg,along with two colleagues, is attending a conference.They chance upon a pile of shoes with severed feet...

And Only to Deceive

And Only to Deceive
  • Author(s): Tasha Alexander
  • Location(s): France, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): Mid 1800s

Emily is married and widowed within the first couple of pages and she comes to realise how little she knew of him. She starts to investigate this leads her into a mystery involving forgeries of Ancient Greek artefacts.

Angel Heart

Angel Heart
  • Author(s): Marie Laval
  • Location(s): Beaujolais, England
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Early 19th Century

Angel Heart is a lavish mix of romance, adventure, and a hint of the supernatural, largely set in France against the turbulent background of Napoleon’s return from Elba. Devonshire, January 1815. Marie-Ange, the young widow of an English officer,...

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