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Bright Burning Things

Bright Burning Things
  • Author(s): Lisa Harding
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Absolutely dazzling’ Marian Keyes ‘On every page there are little shimmering bombs’ Lisa Taddeo ‘Startling, urgent and intimate’ Lisa McInerney ‘I lived every scene as I read’ Donal Ryan Being Tommy’s mother is too much for Sonya. Too much...

Brighter Days Ahead

Brighter Days Ahead
  • Author(s): Mary Wood
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

Brighter Days Ahead is a moving story set against the backdrop of the Second World War, from Mary Wood, the author of In Their Mother’s Footsteps. War pulled them apart, but can it bring them back together? Molly lives...

Brixton Hill

Brixton Hill
  • Author(s): Lottie Moggach
  • Location(s): Brixton
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

As Rob reaches the end of a seven year stretch inside, he winds up in an open prison in Brixton. Each morning, he exits the prison gates and begins the short walk to a local charity shop, where he...

Bulls, Bands, and London

Bulls, Bands, and London
  • Author(s): John Meyer
  • Location(s): Pamplona, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Neil Jarvis believes that the wild and sexy Jordan is the best thing in his otherwise predictable life. So when she mysteriously disappears in England after their first big fight, he drops everything in order to search for her...

By the Sea

By the Sea
  • Author(s): Abdulrazak Gurnah
  • Location(s): Tanzania, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

“Refugee”, I said, pointing at my chest. “Asylum”. When Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport late one afternoon, he has a badly faked passport and exhibits no knowledge of English beyond these two words. He was once a furniture...

Caledonian Road

Caledonian Road
  • Author(s): Andrew O'Hagan
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 2020s

May 2021. London. Campbell Flynn – art historian and celebrity intellectual – is entering the empire of middle age. Fuelled by an appetite for admiration and the finer things, controversy and novelty, he doesn’t take people half as seriously...

Canary Girls

Canary Girls
  • Author(s): Jennifer Chiaverini
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW1

Rosie the Riveter meets A League of Their Own in New York Times bestselling novelist Jennifer Chiaverini’s lively and illuminating novel about the “munitionettes” who built bombs in Britain’s arsenals during World War I, risking their lives for the war...

Capital Christie

Capital Christie
  • Author(s): Agatha Christie
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Earlier 20th Century

Murder, mystery and majesty combine in this new Special Edition hardback of the Queen of Crime’s very best short stories set in London. Agatha Christie is recognized throughout the world as the writer of remarkable country house mysteries and...

Career of Evil

Career of Evil
  • Author(s): Robert Galbraith
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present Day

When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman’s severed leg. Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. There are four people from...

Carl Goes London Islands

Carl Goes London Islands
  • Author(s): Sasha Arms
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Islands represent freedom, independence and creativity. They appear and disappear over time, according to weather events, water flow and intervention by people. Islands have an enduring and often romantic appeal. Being closer to nature, at the mercy of the...

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