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Open Water

Open Water
  • Author(s): Caleb Azumah Nelson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong, both are now artists – he a photographer, she a dancer – trying...

Ordinary Thunderstorms

Ordinary Thunderstorms
  • Author(s): William Boyd
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

One May evening in London, as a result of a chance encounter and a split-second decision, the young climatologist Adam Kindred loses everything – home, job, reputation, passport, credit cards, money – never to get them back. With the...

Our Evenings

Our Evenings
  • Author(s): Alan Hollinghurst
  • Location(s): England, London, South East England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s to present

Dave Win is thirteen years old when he first goes to stay with the sponsors of his scholarship at a local boarding school. This weekend, with its games and challenges and surprising encounters, will open up heady new possibilities,...

Our Picnics in the Sun

Our Picnics in the Sun
  • Author(s): Morag Joss
  • Location(s): Exmoor
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

One night, two strangers. A damage that cannot be undone. For thirty years, Howard and Deborah Morgan have poured all their energy and modest savings into Stoneyridge, a smallholding deep in the English moors. Howard putters with pottery, Deborah...

Out of Sight

Out of Sight
  • Author(s): Isabelle Grey
  • Location(s): France, London, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2005 - 2011

Patrick is a loving husband and father, but when his parents come to stay one summer, he is desperate to escape the memories they provoke. Their departure leaves him exhausted and overwhelmed. The last thing he remembers is strapping...

Pearl of Pit Lane

Pearl of Pit Lane
  • Author(s): Glenda Young
  • Location(s): Ryhope, Sunderland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1919

‘Put me to work on the pit lane, would you? Is that all you think I’m worth?’ When her mother dies in childbirth, Pearl Edwards is left in the care of her aunt, Annie Grafton. Annie loves Pearl like...

Penguin Underground Lines

Penguin Underground Lines
  • Author(s): Various (Penguin)
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 2013

The sight of subway commuters with their noses buried in books is one that transcends iPods, Angry Birds and any number of technological and cultural advances. It’s only appropriate, then, that Penguin has teamed with Transport for London to...

Penshaw

Penshaw
  • Author(s): LJ Ross
  • Location(s): The North East (England)
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2019

When you sell your soul, the devil gives no refunds… When an old man is burned alive in a sleepy ex-mining village, Detective Chief Inspector Ryan is called in to investigate. He soon discovers that, beneath the facade of...

Picture You Dead

Picture You Dead
  • Author(s): Peter James
  • Location(s): Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Detective Superintendent Roy Grace finds himself plunged into an unfamiliar and rarefied world of fine art. Outwardly it appears respectable, gentlemanly, above reproach. But beneath the veneer, he rapidly finds that greed, deception and violence walk hand-in-hand. Harry and...

Pig Iron

Pig Iron
  • Author(s): Benjamin Myers
  • Location(s): Durham, The North East (England)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

John-John wants to escape his past. But the legacy of brutality left by his bare-knuckle boxer father, King of the Gypsies, Mac Wisdom, overshadows his life. His new job as an ice cream man should offer freedom, but instead...

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