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Emma’s Tapestry

Emma’s Tapestry
  • Author(s): Isobel Blackthorn
  • Location(s): London, Colorado, Japan, Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1914-1920 and 1939

At the dawn of World War Two, German-born nurse Emma Taylor sits by the bedside of a Jewish heiress in London as she reminisces over her dear friend, Oscar Wilde. As the story of Wilde unravels, so does Emma’s...

Empress & Aniya

Empress & Aniya
  • Author(s): Candice Carty-Williams
  • Location(s): South London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The first YA novel from the bestselling author of Queenie. When Empress starts at Aniya’s school, they’re not exactly best friends. But, when the two teenage girls accidentally cast a spell on their 16th birthday and end up switching...

Entanglement

Entanglement
  • Author(s): Katy Mahood
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On a hot October day in a London park, Stella sits in her red wedding dress opposite John. Pregnant and lost in thoughts of the future, she has no idea that lying in the grass, a stone’s throw away,...

Evenings and Weekends

Evenings and Weekends
  • Author(s): Oisin McKenna
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): contemporary

Summer in London stops for no-one. Not the half-naked boozers, stoners, and cruisers, the hen parties glugging from bejewelled bottles, the drag queens puffing on hurried fags. It’s June 2019, and everyone has converged on the city’s parks, beer...

Every Trick in the Book

Every Trick in the Book
  • Author(s): Bernard O'Keeffe
  • Location(s): Barnes
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sex, Money, Drugs…DI Garibaldi is on the case. DI Garibaldi and his team are shocked when they discover that local writer, Ben Joseph, has been killed in the same manner and at the same location as the victim in...

Exactly What You Mean

Exactly What You Mean
  • Author(s): Ben Hinshaw
  • Location(s): California, Guernsey, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Surrounded by the dramatic beauty of Guernsey, a teenager discovers a secret and finds his betrayal has the power to ruin adult lives. In London, a marriage shot through with infidelity leads to a quest for revenge, resulting in...

Excellent Women

Excellent Women
  • Author(s): Barbara Pym
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Mildred Lathbury is one of those ‘excellent women’ who is often taken for granted. She is a godsend, ‘capable of dealing with most of the stock situations of life – birth, marriage, death, the successful jumble sales, the garden...

Exit Five from Charing Cross

Exit Five from Charing Cross
  • Author(s): Valerie Keogh
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

Rich, successful and married to a beautiful woman, Jake Mitchell seems to have it all. But it’s all come at a cost. Choices Jake has made along the way start to have consequences and everything starts to fall apart....

Exit Management

Exit Management
  • Author(s): Naomi Booth
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Callum has been given an opportunity: Jozsef’s house is the perfect place to live, plenty of room, a sought-after London location and filled with priceless works of art. All that Jozsef asks in return is for some company while...

Expectation

Expectation
  • Author(s): Anna Hope
  • Location(s): East London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Hannah, Cate and Lissa are young, vibrant and inseparable. Living on the edge of a common in East London, their shared world is ablaze with art and activism, romance and revelry – and the promise of everything to come....

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