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Cambridge

Cambridge
  • Author(s): Susanna Kaysen
  • Location(s): Athens, Cambridge (Massachusetts), Florence, London
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

So begins this novel-from-life by the best-selling author of Girl, Interrupted, an exploration of memory and nostalgia set in the 1950s among the academics and artists of Cambridge, Massachusetts. London, Florence, Athens: Susanna, the precocious narrator of Cambridge, would rather be home than...

Capital

Capital
  • Author(s): John Lanchester
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

Capital is set in London during the credit crunch. It is a large tome that follows the lives of a group of people who live in – or are connected to Pepys Road, in South London. It is a...

Capital Punishment

Capital Punishment
  • Author(s): Robert Wilson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller

Beautiful Alyshia D’Cruz has grown up in London and Mumbai wanting for nothing. But one night she takes the wrong cab home. Charles Boxer, expert in high-stakes kidnap resolution, teams up with his ex-partner, investigative cop Mercy Danquah, who’s...

Case Histories

Case Histories
  • Author(s): Kate Atkinson
  • Location(s): Cambridge
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Cambridge is sweltering, during an unusually hot summer. To Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, the world consists of one accounting sheet – Lost on the left, Found on the right – and the two never seem...

Cast-Iron Men

Cast-Iron Men
  • Author(s): Dominic Kearney
  • Location(s): Liverpool
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A tense, pacy, violent crime thriller, Cast-Iron Men looks beyond the gloss of Liverpool’s status as City of Culture, as two tough and vulnerable female reporters gun for the big fish who think they run their small pond. Brutal...

Chamber Music

Chamber Music
  • Author(s): Tom Benn
  • Location(s): Manchester
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): End of the 20th Century

Henry Bane is dead. Long Live Henry Bane, his son. It’s Manchester, 1998, and the funeral party is interrupted by a woman from Bane’s past. Róisín is back in Manchester and back in Bane’s life after an eight-year absence...

Christmas at the Cupcake Cafe

Christmas at the Cupcake Cafe
  • Author(s): Jenny Colgan
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

“The scent of cinnamon, orange peel and ginger perfumed the air, with a strong undercurrent of coffee. Outside the rain was battering against the large windows of the eau-de-nil-painted exterior of the Cupcake Café, tucked into a little grey...

Christmas at Tiffany’s

Christmas at Tiffany’s
  • Author(s): Karen Swan
  • Location(s): London, New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Cassie settled down too young, marrying her first serious boyfriend. Now, ten years later, she is betrayed and broken. With her marriage in tatters and no career or home of her own, she needs to work out where she...

Christmas Wishes for the Railway Girls (The Railway Girls #8)

Christmas Wishes for the Railway Girls (The Railway Girls #8)
  • Author(s): Maisie Thomas
  • Location(s): Manchester
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1943

This will be a Christmas to remember for the railway girls. . . Little Max is growing day by day and Joan is adjusting to her new life. But in her heart of hearts, she is desperate to return...

City of Halves

City of Halves
  • Author(s): Lucy Inglis
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Young Adult

London. Girls are disappearing. They’ve all got one thing in common; they just don’t know it yet \. Sixteen-year-old Lily was meant to be next, but she’s saved by a stranger: a half-human boy with gold-flecked eyes. Regan is...

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