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Case Study

Case Study
  • Author(s): Graeme Macrae Burnet
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1965

London, 1965. An unworldly young woman suspects charismatic psychotherapist Collins Braithwaite of involvement in a death in her family. Determined to find out more, she becomes a client of his under a false identity. But she soon finds herself...

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...

Changer

Changer
  • Author(s): Matt Gemmell
  • Location(s): Munich, Amsterdam, Edinburgh, London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

Techno-thriller: DESTINY CAN BE CHANGED. Jutland, Denmark: a billionaire industrialist seizes control of a top-secret project that the European Defence Agency calls Destiny, manipulating it for his own ends. Edinburgh, Scotland: physicist Neil Aldridge’s life is saved by an...

Chaos Calls to Chaos

Chaos Calls to Chaos
  • Author(s): M D Wigg Jay Heyes
  • Location(s): London, Devon
  • Genre(s): Comedy
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A comedy about the exploits of London Curates, Chris, Ravi and Ellie and youth worker Mike, who team up with North Devon Surfer, Storm, to try and control the ambitions of the free lance surfing Archdeacon, or A.D. as...

Christ on a Bike

Christ on a Bike
  • Author(s): Orla Owen
  • Location(s): Hackney, Pembrokeshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Cerys receives an unexpected inheritance but there are rules attached, twisted rules that have to be followed if she is to receive it in full . As she settles into her new life, she begins to feel trapped and...

Christmas is All Around

Christmas is All Around
  • Author(s): Martha Waters
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): contemporary

Charlotte hates the holidays. As a former child actress, she starred in a Christmas movie, whose fans won’t let her move on. When a piece revealing that her reluctance nixed plans for a reboot, she flees to London to...

Christmas Pudding

Christmas Pudding
  • Author(s): Nancy Mitford
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction

‘Christmas Day was organized by Lady Bobbin with the thoroughness and attention to detail of a general leading his army into battle . . .’ The formidable fox-hunter Lady Bobbin is holding a Christmas house party. Attendees include her...

Christmas Shopaholic

Christmas Shopaholic
  • Author(s): Sophie Kinsella
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Becky is hosting Christmas for the first time… what could possibly go wrong? The brilliant laugh-out-loud festive novel from the Number One bestselling author. Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) adores Christmas. It’s always the same – Mum and Dad hosting,...

Circus of Wonders

Circus of Wonders
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Macneal
  • Location(s): London, Crimea
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century

1866. In a coastal village in southern England, Nell picks violets for a living. Set apart by her community because of the birthmarks that speckle her skin, Nell’s world is her beloved brother and devotion to the sea. But...

City of Stolen Magic

City of Stolen Magic
  • Author(s): Nazneen Ahmed Pathak, Sandhya Prabhat (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): East London, India
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1855

India, 1855. The British rule, and all across the country, Indian magic is being stamped out. More terrifying still, people born with magic are being snatched from their homes. Rumour is that they are being taken across the sea...

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