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Strangers

Strangers
  • Author(s): Anita Brookner
  • Location(s): London, Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

A beautifully crafted book, with an elegant style. Paul Burgess lives a quiet bachelor life in London. To avoid an invitation to spend Christmas with his cousin’s widow, Helena, he decides on a trip to Venice. Here, at age...

The Feng Shui Detective goes West

The Feng Shui Detective goes West
  • Author(s): Nury Vittachi
  • Location(s): London, Singapore
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

C.F. Wong, the Feng Shui practiioner meets a client onboard a cruise ship. Murder, Chinese Mafia and a commission to check out the balance of a plane owned by the British Government lead him to come into contact with...

A Letter From Sarah

A Letter From Sarah
  • Author(s): Dan Proops
  • Location(s): Fulham, Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern Day

Adam’s sister, Sarah, has been missing for seven years, but he hasn’t given up hope of finding her. He is a sculptor and lives with his bedridden father who is a bully and a curmudgeon. One morning, as the...

Because of You

Because of You
  • Author(s): Dawn French
  • Location(s): London, Bristol
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s/2010s

Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock . . . midnight. The old millennium turns into the new. In the same hospital, two very different women give birth to two very similar daughters. Hope leaves with a beautiful baby girl. Anna leaves with...

73 Dove Street

73 Dove Street
  • Author(s): Julie Owen Moylan
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1950s

‘Set in my end of 1950s London, the sense of time and place is beautifully evocative, the ghost of the war, and the sense of societal change about to come. It’s about pride and shame and love and loss...

A Bear Called Paddington

A Bear Called Paddington
  • Author(s): Michael Bond, Peggy Fortnum (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): London, Peru
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

“A bear on Paddington Station?” said Mrs Brown in amazement. “Don’t be silly – there can’t be.” Paddington Bear had travelled all the way from Darkest Peru when the Brown family first met him on Paddington station. Since then...

A Beautiful Spy

A Beautiful Spy
  • Author(s): Rachel Hore
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s/30s

Minnie Gray is an ordinary young woman. She is also a spy for the British government. It all began in the summer of 1928… Minnie is supposed to find a nice man, get married and have children. The problem...

A Beautiful Way to Die

A Beautiful Way to Die
  • Author(s): Eleni Kyriacou
  • Location(s): Hollywood, London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1950s

PLAY THEIR GAME Hollywood, 1953. Young actress Ginny Watkins is turning heads. Even the legendary – and married – actor Max Whitman can’t resist the allure of the hottest new starlet. He promises Ginny the world, in return for...

A Bit of Difference

A Bit of Difference
  • Author(s): Sefi Atta
  • Location(s): Nigeria, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

At thirty-nine, Deola Bello, a Nigerian expatriate in London, is dissatisfied with being single and working overseas. Deola works as a financial reviewer for an international charity. When her job takes her back to Nigeria in time for her...

A Blood Condition

A Blood Condition
  • Author(s): Kayo Chingonyi
  • Location(s): Leeds, London, Zambezi River
  • Genre(s): Poetry
  • Era(s): N/A

The moving, expansive, and dazzling second collection from award-winning poet Kayo Chingonyi A Blood Condition tells a story of inheritance – the people, places, cultures and memories that form us. Kayo Chingonyi explores how distance and time, nations and...

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