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Alice By Heart

Alice By Heart
  • Author(s): Steven Sater
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1940

A young girl takes refuge in a London Tube station during WWII and confronts grief, loss, and first love with the help of her favorite book, Alice in Wonderland, in the debut novel from Tony Award-winning playwright Steven Sater....

All That Life Can Afford

All That Life Can Afford
  • Author(s): Emily Everett
  • Location(s): London, St Tropez (Saint-Tropez)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A taut and lyrical coming-of-age debut about a young American woman navigating class, lies, and love amid London’s jet-set elite. I would arrive, blank like a sheet of notebook paper, and write myself new. Anna first fell in love...

All The Broken Places

All The Broken Places
  • Author(s): John Boyne
  • Location(s): France, Germany, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present looking back to WW2

From the author of the globally bestselling, multi-million-copy classic, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, comes its astonishing and powerful sequel. Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same mansion block in London for decades. She leads a comfortable,...

Allow Me to Introduce Myself

Allow Me to Introduce Myself
  • Author(s): Onyi Nwabineli
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Her life. Her rules. Finally. A page-turning novel about the dark side of social media, perfect for fans of The List or How to Kill Your Family. Anuri Chinasa has had enough. She was the unwilling star of her...

An Experiment in Love

An Experiment in Love
  • Author(s): Hilary Mantel
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

This novel follows two girls as they leave behind their pasts and set off for 1970s London and study. Centred around Tonbridge Hall, university accommodation, this is a time of experimentation, flirting and love….a study of girls together, and...

An Honest Man

An Honest Man
  • Author(s): Simon Michael
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s

Sequel to The Brief (although can be read as a standalone): maverick barrister, Charles Holborne, may have just escaped hanging by proving he was framed for murder, but his life is now in ruins. His wife is dead, his...

An Invitation to the Kennedys

An Invitation to the Kennedys
  • Author(s): Emily Hourican
  • Location(s): Essex, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

Kathleen ‘Kick’ Kennedy, recently arrived from Boston, is already a huge hit in 1930s London society. As the daughter of the US ambassador, she is at the centre of the most elite social circles. But when she falls for...

An Unchoreographed Life

An Unchoreographed Life
  • Author(s): Jane Davis
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present Day

You can’t have it all. So what must you choose to lose? And will it be worth the sacrifice? “Don’t let this brilliant book pass you by!” Amazon reviewer. Six-year-old Belinda Brabbage has amassed a wealth of wisdom. She...

An Unholy Affair

An Unholy Affair
  • Author(s): Evie Alexander
  • Location(s): Somerset, Corsham, Corsham Court, London, The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Will he show her heaven, or take her straight to hell? Vicar Eveline Shaw has always dreamed of finding ‘the one’, but her job keeps getting in the way. She may be kind and beautiful, but men run a...

Anatomy of a Scandal

Anatomy of a Scandal
  • Author(s): Sarah Vaughan
  • Location(s): Westminster, Oxford
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A high-profile marriage thrust into the spotlight. A prosecutor who believes justice has been a long time coming.  A scandal that will rock Westminster. And the women caught at the heart of it.

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