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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...

I, Claudius

I, Claudius
  • Author(s): Robert Graves
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 40s AD

Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus, (Claudius) is a historian, a stutterer, crippled, and widely seen to be stupid. Claudius is isolated from the treachery of the Roman court during the years immediately after the death of Christ, and avoids...

Ibiza Summer

Ibiza Summer
  • Author(s): Anna Lou Weatherley
  • Location(s): Ibiza
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern

A perfect teen holiday read, set on the clubbers’ paradise island. “I wrapped my arms lightly around his waist – he felt warm and firm and I could feel his chest moving up and down beneath his white T-shirt....

Iced

Iced
  • Author(s): Felix Francis
  • Location(s): St Moritz
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Miles Pussett is a former steeplechase jockey. Now he gets his adrenaline rush from riding down the Cresta Run, a three-quarter-mile Swiss ice chute, head first, reaching speeds of up to eighty miles per hour. Finding himself in St Moritz...

Idle Grounds

Idle Grounds
  • Author(s): Krystelle Bamford
  • Location(s): New England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1989

On a bright summer day in 1989 New England, Abi, three years old, vanishes from her aunt’s secluded home. Upstairs, her young cousins are looking out of the window. Something is unfolding in the distance at the edge of...

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...

Illywhacker

Illywhacker
  • Author(s): Peter Carey
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

Impostor: An Alexander Gregory Thriller

Impostor: An Alexander Gregory Thriller
  • Author(s): LJ Ross
  • Location(s): County Mayo
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

There’s a killer inside all of us… After an elite criminal profiling unit is shut down amidst a storm of scandal and mismanagement, only one person emerges unscathed. Forensic psychologist Doctor Alexander Gregory has a reputation for being able...

In Every Mirror She’s Black

In Every Mirror She’s Black
  • Author(s): Lola Akinmade Akerstrom
  • Location(s): Stockholm
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A timely and arresting debut novel about what it means to be a Black woman in the world. Perfect for fans of Queenie and Americanah. Three Black women building new lives in Stockholm become linked in unexpected ways to...

In Other Words

In Other Words
  • Author(s): Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Location(s): Italy
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

In Other Words is a revelation. It is at heart a love story of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession: that of a writer for another language. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love...

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