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A Whisper of Horses

A Whisper of Horses
  • Author(s): Zillah Bethell
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Dystopian

Serendipity loves horses. No-one in Lahn Dan has ever seen one, apparently they died out before the Gases – but there are statues of them around the city, paintings and drawings too if you know where to look. And...

Absolutely and Forever

Absolutely and Forever
  • Author(s): Rose Tremain
  • Location(s): London, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Determined, rebellious Marianne Clifford is searching for love and freedom in 1960s London How do you find the courage to make your own life? Marianne Clifford, teenage daughter of a peppery army colonel and his vain wife, falls helplessly...

Acts of Omission

Acts of Omission
  • Author(s): Terry Stiastny
  • Location(s): Berlin, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

In 1998 the gilt is starting to come off a new era. Mark Lucas, the recently appointed foreign minister, is in a dilemma. A disk containing the names of British informants to the Stasi has ended up in the...

Addressed to Greta

Addressed to Greta
  • Author(s): Fiona Sussman
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), London, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Rwanda
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Greta Jellings blushes and bumbles her way through her carefully ordered existence, forever constrained by what her mother would have said and done. ‘No expectation, no disappointment’ was one of her mother’s mantras. It serves Greta well too. It...

After Leaving the Village

After Leaving the Village
  • Author(s): Helen Matthews
  • Location(s): Albania, London
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Suspense
  • Era(s): Present day

Two women. Two villages. Different destinies. Odeta’s life has shrunk to a daily round of drudgery, running her father’s grocery store in a remote Albanian village. One day an enigmatic stranger from Tirana walks into the shop and promises...

After You’d Gone

After You’d Gone
  • Author(s): Maggie O'Farrell
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s and looking back

AFTER YOU’D GONE is the groundbreaking debut novel from the Costa-Award winning Maggie O’Farrell, author of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE and I AM, I AM, I AM. It is a stunning, best-selling novel of wrenching love and grief....

Agatha Oddly: Murder at the Museum

Agatha Oddly: Murder at the Museum
  • Author(s): Lena Jones
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A second mystery for thirteen-year-old Agatha Oddly – a bold, determined heroine, and the star of this stylish new detective series. Agatha Oddlow’s set to become the youngest member of the Gatekeepers’ Guild, but before that, she’s got a...

Agatha Oddly: The Secret Key

Agatha Oddly: The Secret Key
  • Author(s): Lena Jones
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Meet thirteen-year-old Agatha Oddly – a bold, determined heroine, and the star of a stylish new detective series. Agatha Oddlow has been a detective for as long as she can remember – she’s just been waiting for her first...

Agatha Oddly: The Silver Serpent

Agatha Oddly: The Silver Serpent
  • Author(s): Lena Jones
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A third mystery for thirteen-year-old Agatha Oddly – a bold, determined heroine, and the star of this stylish new detective series. Agatha Oddlow is on the case with yet another adventure! An assistant at the National Gallery has gone...

Agent Running in the Field

Agent Running in the Field
  • Author(s): John le Carré
  • Location(s): London, Moscow
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the...

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