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Disbanded Kingdom

Disbanded Kingdom
  • Author(s): Polis Loizou
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): Current

Twenty-two-year-old Oscar is a lost cause. He roams central London looking for love and distraction. But this isn’t quite Bright Lights, Big City: Oscar is gay but feels disconnected from London’s gay scene. He is naive and rootless, an...

Disputed Land

Disputed Land
  • Author(s): Tim Pears
  • Location(s): Shropshire, Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

Leonard and Rosemary Cannon summon their middle-aged offspring, along with partners and children, to the family home in the Welsh Marches for the Christmas holiday. As the gathered family settle in to their first Christmas together for some years,...

Dominion

Dominion
  • Author(s): C J Sansom
  • Location(s): Birmingham, Brighton, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany after Dunkirk. As the long German war against Russia rages on in the east, the British people find themselves under dark authoritarian...

Don’t Look Away

Don’t Look Away
  • Author(s): Rachel Abbott
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The breathless thriller from Rachel Abbott. DON’T LOOK AWAY will have you up listening late into the night, unable to tear yourself from it. From the moment I open my eyes, I know. Her bed is made, the wardrobe...

Down and Out in Paris and London

Down and Out in Paris and London
  • Author(s): George Orwell
  • Location(s): London, Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1920s

You have talked so often of going to the dogs – and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them.’ George Orwell’s vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute in London and Paris...

Downriver

Downriver
  • Author(s): Iain Sinclair
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

Downriver is constructed as twelve interlocking narratives, in which Iain Sinclair traces the ruins of Margaret Thatcher’s reign through the lens of a fictional film crew that has been hired to make a documentary about what’s left of London’s...

Earthly Joys

Earthly Joys
  • Author(s): Philippa Gregory
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1600s

Sweeping historical novel from Philippa Gregory the author of The Other Boleyn Girl and The Virgin’s Lover. Set in the 1600s and seen through the eyes of John Tradescant, gardener to the great men of the age. A traveller...

East End Jubilee

East End Jubilee
  • Author(s): Carol Rivers
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

This appeared und the original title of Rose of Ruby Street. June 2nd, 1953. The residents of Ruby Street in London’s East End are celebrating the new Queen’s coronation. It’s a day of joy and laughter, a new beginning...

Edgware Road

Edgware Road
  • Author(s): Yasmin Cordery Khan
  • Location(s): North London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s and 2000s

A wide-ranging and affecting debut novel about family and identity, from an award-winning historian. 1981. Khalid Quraishi is one of the lucky ones. He works nights in the glitzy West End, and comes home every morning to his beautiful...

Elijah’s Mermaid

Elijah’s Mermaid
  • Author(s): Essie Fox
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1800s

Since she was found as a baby, floating in the Thames one foggy night, the web-toed Pearl has been brought up in a brothel known as the House of Mermaids. Cosseted and pampered there, it is only when her...

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