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We Are All Birds of Uganda

We Are All Birds of Uganda
  • Author(s): Hafsa Zayyan
  • Location(s): Uganda, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s/Contemporary

‘You can’t stop birds from flying, can you, Sameer? They go where they will…’ 1960s UGANDA. Hasan is struggling to run his family business following the sudden death of his wife. Just as he begins to see a way...

Block 46

Block 46
  • Author(s): Johana Gustawsson
  • Location(s): Falkenberg, Hampstead, London
  • Genre(s): Thriller

Falkenberg, Sweden. The mutilated body of talented young jewellery designer, Linnea Blix, is found in a snow-swept marina. Hampstead Heath, London. The body of a young boy is discovered with similar wounds to Linnea’s. Buchenwald Concentration Camp, 1944. In...

Crooked Heart

Crooked Heart
  • Author(s): Lissa Evans
  • Location(s): London, St Albans
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

When Noel Bostock – aged ten, no family – is evacuated from London to escape the Blitz, he ends up living in St Albans with Vera Sedge – thirty-six and drowning in debts and dependents. Always desperate for money,...

The Forgotten Garden

The Forgotten Garden
  • Author(s): Kate Morton
  • Location(s): Brisbane, Cornwall, London
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1913-2005

A well crafted and multi layered novel – it spans three generations and almost a whole century, going back and forth over time as Nell’s abandonment is explored.From the wilds of Cornwall, the slums of London, to the suburbs...

Being Someone

Being Someone
  • Author(s): Adrian Harvey
  • Location(s): India, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Turn of the 20th century

Two stories interweave. The story of an elephant in Southern India and turn of the 21st London where a romance between a Londoner and a New Yorker is burgeoning. It is deft the way these two stories intertwine. The...

Rivers of London

Rivers of London
  • Author(s): Ben Aaronovitch
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

My name is Peter Grant and until January I was just probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Service (and as the Filth to everybody else). My only concerns...

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol
  • Author(s): Charles Dickens
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Victorian

Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean, miserable, bitter old man with no friends. One cold Christmas Eve, three ghosts take him on a scary journey to show him the error of his nasty ways. By visiting his past, present and...

A Death in the Afternoon (The Clapham Trilogy Book 2)

A Death in the Afternoon (The Clapham Trilogy Book 2)
  • Author(s): Julie Anderson
  • Location(s): Clapham
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1948

Summer 1948 London swelters amid post-war reconstruction, while continued rationing and the black-market fuel the rising crime wave. The empires of gangland bosses grow and thrive, protected by corruption and bribery. During a party in Clapham a student nurse...

A Sister’s Promise

A Sister’s Promise
  • Author(s): Renita D'Silva
  • Location(s): Udupi, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Two sisters. Bound by blood. Torn apart by love. My sister – the glue that held our family together and the gatekeeper to the memories of our shared childhood. The girl I made a pact with – to protect...

Adelaide

Adelaide
  • Author(s): Genevieve Wheeler
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 2010s

On an otherwise ordinary day, 26-year-old American expat Adelaide Williams walks into a London hospital and asks for help. Something’s not right. She doesn’t feel like herself any more. For the past year, she’s been dating Rory Hughes, the...

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