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A Sister’s Shame

A Sister’s Shame
  • Author(s): Carol Rivers
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

They’d give up everything to dance on stage, but could they lose each other? London’s East End, 1934. Eighteen-year-old twins Marie and Vesta Haskins work at the local shoe factory to bring in a few pennies for the family,...

A Slow Fire Burning

A Slow Fire Burning
  • Author(s): Paula Hawkins
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘What is wrong with you?’ Laura has spent most of her life being judged. She’s seen as hot-tempered, troubled, a loner. Some even call her dangerous. Miriam knows that just because Laura is witnessed leaving the scene of a...

Ada’s Realm

Ada’s Realm
  • Author(s): Sharon Dodua Otoo, Jon Cho-Polizzi (translator)
  • Location(s): Ghana, Germany, London
  • Genre(s): In Translation, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1459 to present day

WHERE IS ADA? In a small village in West Africa, in what will one day become Ghana, Ada gives birth again, and again the baby does not live. As she grieves the loss of her child, Portuguese traders become...

All Her Secrets

All Her Secrets
  • Author(s): Jane Shemilt
  • Location(s): London, Paxos
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2003 and 2023

PAXOS, GREECE 2003 A young girl meets two boys on the beach one hot summer night. Her life will never be the same again. LONDON, ENGLAND 2023 Julia is the perfect spouse, mother, cook, cleaner and speech writer to...

All That I am

All That I am
  • Author(s): Anna Funder
  • Location(s): Germany, London, World
  • Genre(s): Biography, Fiction
  • Era(s): Various

London in 1933, Germany during and after WW1, Sydney in the recent past, and New York City in 1939 are a few of the settings. I came to this book having read and very much enjoyed Stasiland: Stories from...

An Ivy Hill Christmas

An Ivy Hill Christmas
  • Author(s): Julie Klassen
  • Location(s): London, Wiltshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1800s

Richard Brockwell, the younger son of Ivy Hill’s most prominent family, hasn’t been home for Christmas in years. He prefers to live in the London townhouse, far away from Brockwell Court, the old family secret that haunts him, and...

Bella Summer takes a chance

Bella Summer takes a chance
  • Author(s): Michele Gorman
  • Location(s): London

When is enough not enough? Bella’s career and relationship are her life’s foundationwear: not glamorous and perhaps a bit binding, but supportive enough… until she realizes that they are not enough. Her life is sagging badly. She’s never been...

By Battersea Bridge

By Battersea Bridge
  • Author(s): Janet Davey
  • Location(s): Bulgaria, Hampshire, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Anita Mostyn feels the need to take a holiday from her life. As a child, she was dismissed by her parents in favour of her self-confident brothers, and as an adult, her choices are disapproved of – the small...

City of The Mind

City of The Mind
  • Author(s): Penelope Lively
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

Architect Matthew Halland lets himself be influences by the blend of past and present, memories of childhood, his daughter and his marriage that has ended – architecture is his metaphor for life moving along and change. He is now...

Comfort and Joy

Comfort and Joy
  • Author(s): India Knight
  • Location(s): London, Marrakech
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2009-2011

It’s two days before Christmas and wife and mother of two, Clara Dunphy, has finally finished her last-minute shopping on Oxford Street. On a whim she decides to treat herself to a champagne cocktail at the Connaught hotel, where...

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