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For Tibet With Love

For Tibet With Love
  • Author(s): Isabel Losada
  • Location(s): London, Nepal, Tibet
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Sometimes you just have to do something, don’t you? Sometimes an injustice comes along and you think ‘No, this cannot be’, and rather than just turn off the TV, you know it’s time to act’ So begins Isabel Losada’s...

Ghost Girl

Ghost Girl
  • Author(s): Lesley Thomson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2012 looking back to 1960s

Hammersmith, London… A year after her father’s death, the detective’s daughter inherits a strange new case. Terry Darnell was a detective with Hammersmith police. Now his daughter Stella has found a folder of photographs hidden in his cellar. Why...

Ghost Light

Ghost Light
  • Author(s): Joseph O'Connor
  • Location(s): Dublin, Ireland, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): First half of the 20th Century

Dublin, 1907. A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works. Outspoken and flirtatious, Molly Allgood is a Catholic girl from the slums of Dublin, dreaming of stardom...

Handbags and Poobags

Handbags and Poobags
  • Author(s): Alice Wright
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Romance

SOHO. Alice lives in Soho and her life revolves around her career and attending glamorous premieres and parties. But her life is completely transformed when her partner decides to buy a puppy. Hilarious anecdotes and how to clear up...

Hungry

Hungry
  • Author(s): Grace Dent
  • Location(s): London, Carlisle
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Food and Drink
  • Era(s): Late 20th century, early 21st century

From Frazzles to Foie Gras: a memoir of wanting more. From an early age, Grace Dent was hungry. As a little girl growing up in Currock, Carlisle, she yearned to be something bigger, to go somewhere better. Hungry traces...

I’m Sorry You Feel That Way

I’m Sorry You Feel That Way
  • Author(s): Rebecca Wait
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

THE BOOK THAT YOU WON’T BE ABLE TO PUT DOWN For Alice and Hanna, saint and sinner, growing up is a trial. There is their mother, who takes a divide-and-conquer approach to child-rearing, and their father, who takes an...

If Only I Could Tell You

If Only I Could Tell You
  • Author(s): Hannah Beckerman
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A twist that will break your heart . . . An ending that will put it back together Audrey’s family has fallen apart. Her two grown-up daughters, Jess and Lily, are estranged, and her two teenage granddaughters have never...

Joy

Joy
  • Author(s): Jonathan Lee
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Did she jump? Did she fall? Will she wake?’ On an ordinary Friday afternoon in the office, talented young lawyer Joy Stephens plummets forty feet onto a marble floor. In the shadow of this baffling event, the lives of...

Just One Evil Act (Inspector Linley 18)

Just One Evil Act (Inspector Linley 18)
  • Author(s): Elizabeth George
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

When Hadiyyah Upman disappears from London in the company of her mother, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers is as devastated as the girl’s father. They are her close friends as well as neighbours, but since the child is with her...

Killer Affair

Killer Affair
  • Author(s): Rebecca Chance
  • Location(s): London, Sandlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Stunning, charismatic Lexy O’Brien is the reigning queen of British reality TV. Her life in front of the camera is planned and manipulated as successfully as any military assault. But success breeds jealousy. When you’re on top, the only...

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