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Hold

Hold
  • Author(s): Michael Donkor
  • Location(s): Ghana, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Moving between Ghana and London, Hold is an intimate, powerful coming-of-age novel. It’s a story of friendship and family, shame and forgiveness; of learning what we should cling to, and when we need to let go. ‘You have to...

Secret London – Unusual bars & restaurants

Secret London – Unusual bars & restaurants
  • Author(s): Hannah Robinson, Rachel Howard
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Have lunch with the inmates of a high security prison, stroll through a sex shop into a Mexican restaurant, sing your heart out in a clandestine Korean karaoke club, tap your toes in a gypsy swing club, get pickled...

Attend

Attend
  • Author(s): West Camel
  • Location(s): Deptford
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Sam falls in love with Deptford thug Derek, and Anne’s best friend Kathleen takes her own life, they discover they are linked not just by a world of drugs and revenge; they also share the friendship of the...

The Burning

The Burning
  • Author(s): Devin Asante
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 17th Century

London 1666. Young Agnes Wilmore arrives in the bustling city from the small of Castle Combe to pursue her dreams. Robert Hubert, a romantic sociopath, takes advantage of the girl on her first night in town, and from that...

Ordinary People

Ordinary People
  • Author(s): Diana Evans
  • Location(s): South London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2008

South London, 2008. Two couples find themselves at a moment of reckoning, on the brink of acceptance or revolution. Melissa has a new baby and doesn’t want to let it change her but, in the crooked walls of a...

Fallible Justice

Fallible Justice
  • Author(s): Laura Laakso
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In Old London, where paranormal races co-exist with ordinary humans, criminal verdicts delivered by the all-seeing Heralds of Justice are infallible. After a man is declared guilty of murder and sentenced to death, his daughter turns to private investigator...

Cassandra Darke

Cassandra Darke
  • Author(s): Posy Simmonds
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Cassandra Darke is an art dealer, mean, selfish, solitary by nature, living in Chelsea in a house worth £7 million. She has become a social pariah, but doesn’t much care. Between one Christmas and the next, she has sullied...

Puzzle Girl

Puzzle Girl
  • Author(s): Rachael Featherstone
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Present

Love is a riddle, waiting to be solved… Clued-up career girl Cassy Brookes has life under control until one disastrous morning changes everything. When she finds herself stuck in a doctor’s surgery, a cryptic message left in a crossword...

Sleeper: The Red Storm

Sleeper: The Red Storm
  • Author(s): J D Fennell
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1940s

1943.Sleeper spy Will Starling has been drafted in to the SOE, joining forces with the French Resistance in the fight against the Nazis; but Will’s memory is fractured and only occasional flashbacks reveal fragments of his past. Despite this,...

Sleeper

Sleeper
  • Author(s): J D Fennell
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Fantasy, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1940s

Sixteen-year-old Will Starling is pulled from the sea with no memory of his past. In his blazer is a strange notebook with a bullet lodged inside it: a bullet means for him. As London prepares for the Blitz, Will...

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