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Meeting the English

Meeting the English
  • Author(s): Kate Clanchy
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1989

Literary Giant seeks young man to push bathchair. Own room in Hampstead, all found, exciting cultural milieu. Modest wage. Ideal ‘gap year’ opportunity. Apply Prys Box 4224XXC. ‘It’s only England,’ said Mr Fox, ‘just a few hours on the...

Mistress of My Fate

Mistress of My Fate
  • Author(s): Hallie Rubenhold
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1780s

22 October 1789: I shall never forget that day. I shall never forget the decision I made. I was seventeen and so ill prepared for life that I hardly knew how to dress myself, let alone how to board...

N-W

N-W
  • Author(s): Zadie Smith
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

NW is Zadie Smith’s masterful novel about London life. Zadie Smith’s brilliant tragi-comic NW follows four Londoners – Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan – after they’ve left their childhood council estate, grown up and moved on to different lives....

Nothing Important Happened Today

Nothing Important Happened Today
  • Author(s): Will Carver
  • Location(s): London, World
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Nine suicides One Cult No leader Nine people arrive one night on Chelsea Bridge. They’ve never met. But at the same time, they run, and leap to their deaths. Each of them received a letter in the post that...

Ordinary Joe

Ordinary Joe
  • Author(s): Jon Teckman
  • Location(s): California, Cannes, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A brilliant, fast-paced comedy about what happens when all of your dreams become true. What would you do if… …you were happily married …with two gorgeous children …and the most gorgeous film star in the world walked up to...

Pendulum

Pendulum
  • Author(s): Adam Hamdy
  • Location(s): London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

‘James Patterson calls it “one of the best thrillers of the year”, and it is plain to see why…told at a great pace, has a strong central character and a snaking plot’ – Daily Mail You wake. Confused. Disorientated....

Perfect Strangers

Perfect Strangers
  • Author(s): Tasmina Perry
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Romance, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Just an innocent invitation… When Sophie Ellis is asked to house-sit at a luxurious Knightsbridge townhouse, it appears to be the offer of a lifetime. Drawn into the glittering circle of the home’s owner, she meets wealthy American businessman...

Piglet

Piglet
  • Author(s): Lottie Hazell
  • Location(s): Oxford, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Her life is so full, so why is she hungry? For Piglet – an unshakable childhood nickname – getting married is her opportunity to reinvent. Together, Kit and Piglet are the picture of domestic bliss – effortless hosts, planning...

Secrets and Shadows

Secrets and Shadows
  • Author(s): Evelyn Orange
  • Location(s): London, Sheffield, Sunderland
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1940s

In 1940, a young woman makes a decision that will have repercussions for generations to follow… On the eve of VE Day 1945, six-year-old Alexandra Graham is torn from her comfortable wartime existence in Scotland, to begin an uneasy...

Shakespeare’s Local

Shakespeare’s Local
  • Author(s): Pete Brown
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 15th Century onwards

Welcome to the George Inn near London Bridge: a cosy, wood-pannelled, galleried coaching house a few minutes’ walk from the Thames. Grab yourself a pint, listen to the chatter of the locals and consider this: who else has made...

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