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A Long Way Down

A Long Way Down
  • Author(s): Nick Hornby
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): early 2000s

‘Can I explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower block?’ For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer’s pretty simple: he has, in his own words, ‘pissed his life away’. And on New Year’s...

A Madness Of Angels

A Madness Of Angels
  • Author(s): Kate Griffin
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Magical Realism

When a man is tired of London he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford – Samuel Johnson In fact, Dr Johnson was only half right. There is in London much more...

A Meeting of a Different Kind

A Meeting of a Different Kind
  • Author(s): Linda MacDonald
  • Location(s): London, Devon, Isles of Scilly
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 2000s

Set in SE London and Devon with a chapter on the Isles of Scilly When archaeologist Edward Harvey’s wife Felicity inherits almost a million, she gives up her job, buys a restaurant and, as a devotee of Hugh Fernley-Whittingstall,...

A Memory of Violets

A Memory of Violets
  • Author(s): Hazel Gaynor
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1912 looking back to 1870s

1876. Among the depravity of Covent Garden’s flower markets, orphaned Irish sisters Flora and Rosie Flynn sell posies of violets and watercress to survive. When they become separated, their lives are set on very different paths… 1912. Twenty-one-year-old Tilly...

A Message From the Other Side

A Message From the Other Side
  • Author(s): Moira Forsyth
  • Location(s): London, Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Catherine moves several hundred miles away from her sister, Helen says, Phone calls aren’t enough, but they make it easier to edit the truth. Helen can dismiss Gilbert and his enchanted Factory as weird when she’s never met...

A Mind To Murder

A Mind To Murder
  • Author(s): Daniella Bernett
  • Location(s): London, Madrid
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The wicked kill…but the dead speak Journalist Emmeline Kirby and her jewel thief/insurance investigator husband Gregory Longdon were in the mood for intrigue at the theater. However, murder was only supposed to take place on stage. All too soon,...

A Mother’s Secret

A Mother’s Secret
  • Author(s): Renita D'Silva
  • Location(s): Udupi, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century/21st century

What if you discovered that everything you knew about yourself was a lie? When pregnant Jaya loses her mother, then her baby son Arun in a tragic cot death, her world crashes down. Overcome by grief and guilt, she...

A Pale View of Hills

A Pale View of Hills
  • Author(s): Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Location(s): London, Nagasaki
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 2000s and post WW2

In his highly acclaimed debut, Kazuo Ishiguro tells the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. Retreating into the past, she finds herself reliving one particular hot...

A Ration Book Christmas

A Ration Book Christmas
  • Author(s): Jean Fullerton
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

With Christmas approaching, the Brogan family of London’s East End are braving the horrors of the Blitz. With the men away fighting for King and Country and the ever-present dangers of the German Luftwaffe’s nightly reign of death and...

A Rose Petal Summer

A Rose Petal Summer
  • Author(s): Katie Fforde
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands, London, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

The brand new heart-warming romance from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Country Escape and A Secret Garden. IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO FALL IN LOVE…Caro Swanson has taken a job in a remote part of Scotland. She’s...

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