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Flesh

Flesh
  • Author(s): David Szalay
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Through chance, luck and choice, one man’s life takes him from a modest apartment in Hungary to the elite society of London – in this captivating new novel about the forces that make and break our lives *A summer...

Flesh and Blood

Flesh and Blood
  • Author(s): John Harvey
  • Location(s): Nottinghamshire
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

This is the first in a trilogy featuring Frank Elder. A strong story around the release and subsequent disappearance of a young offender. Elder is drawn into the investigation when repeats of the offenders modus operandi starting happening again,...

Forget You Had a Daughter: Doing Time in the Bangkok Hilton

Forget You Had a Daughter: Doing Time in the Bangkok Hilton
  • Author(s): Sandra Gregory
  • Location(s): Bangkok, England
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Sandra Gregory was living a life in Bangkok that many only dream of – until illness, unemployment and political unrest turned it into a nightmare. Desperate to get home, she agreed to smuggle an addict’s personal supply of heroin....

Frank and Red

Frank and Red
  • Author(s): Matt Coyne
  • Location(s): North London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Frank and Red are a mess. Frank is a grumpy old curmudgeon. A recluse whose only company is the ‘ghost’ of his dead wife, Marcie. He is estranged from his friends, his son, and the ever-changing world beyond his...

Ghost Knight

Ghost Knight
  • Author(s): Cornelia Funke
  • Location(s): Salisbury
  • Genre(s): Children

Eleven-year-old Jon Whitcroft never expected to enjoy boarding school. He never expected to be confronted by a pack of vengeful ghosts either. And then he meets Ella, a quirky new friend with a taste for adventure… Together, Jon and...

Girl Reading

Girl Reading
  • Author(s): Katie Ward
  • Location(s): Amsterdam, London, Siena
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Various

An orphan poses nervously for a Renaissance maestro in medieval Siena, and an artist’s servant girl in seventeenth-century Amsterdam snatches a moment away from her work to lose herself in tales of knights and battles. A woman reading in...

Girls Who Travel

Girls Who Travel
  • Author(s): Nicole Trilivas
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Last year, Kika Shores was traveling across the globe without a care in the world. Now she’s stuck at home with her mom, pining for a sexy charmer who lives across the big pond. But then Kika lands a...

Gladio: We Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny

Gladio: We Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny
  • Author(s): Steve Chambers
  • Location(s): Amsterdam, Ireland, Italy, Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

State sponsored murder, international covert surveillance and counter-terrorism. Ambitious young TV journalist John Bradley discovers the biggest story of his career. Putting his life and people close to him in danger, he embarks on a perilous journey into the...

Glasshopper

Glasshopper
  • Author(s): Isabel Ashdown
  • Location(s): Brighton, Isle of Wight, Portsmouth
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

From the suburban disorder of 1980s southern England, 13-year-old Jake watches his world unravel as his father and older brother leave the family home and his mother increasingly finds solace in drink. Even as Jake outwardly shrugs off doubts...

Going Green

Going Green
  • Author(s): Nick Spalding
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the bestselling author of Dumped, Actually comes a laugh-out-loud story about saving your job…and maybe saving the planet in the process. Meet Ellie Cooke. When it comes to all things environmental she’s, well, a bit ‘green’. It’s not...

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