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I Came to Find a Girl

I Came to Find a Girl
  • Author(s): Jaq Hazell
  • Location(s): London, Nottinghamshire
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A complex game of cat and mouse in the streets of Nottingham ends in death. Young artist Mia Jackson is compelled to watch the posthumous video diaries of Jack Flood – controversial bad boy of the London art world...

I Couldn’t Love You More

I Couldn’t Love You More
  • Author(s): Esther Freud
  • Location(s): London, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

A sweeping story of three generations of women, crossing from London to Ireland and back again, and the enduring effort to retrieve the secrets of the past It’s London, 1960, and Aoife Kelly–once the sparkling object of young men’s...

I Know What I Saw

I Know What I Saw
  • Author(s): Imran Mahmood
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

‘I saw it. He smothered her, pressing his hands on her face. The police don’t believe me, they say it’s impossible – but I know what I saw.’ Xander Shute – once a wealthy banker, now living on the...

I Let You Fall

I Let You Fall
  • Author(s): Sara Downing
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Present Day

On a summer night in London, art teacher Eve Chapman finds herself in a hospital emergency room. She watches surgeons desperately operate on a young woman with a terrible head injury. But when the bandages are removed, Eve is...

I, Ada

I, Ada
  • Author(s): Julia Gray
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Victorian era, 19th century

Nominated for the Carnegie Medal Highly Commended, Young Quills Historical Fiction Award Ada Byron is rich and clever, but she longs to be free. Free to explore all the amazing ideas that come to her imagination, like flying mechanical...

If I Can’t Have You

If I Can’t Have You
  • Author(s): Charlotte Levin
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What if the problem with your love life is you? If I Can’t Have You by Charlotte Levin is an all-consuming novel about loneliness, obsession and how far we go for the ones we love. Samuel, the day we...

Ignoring Gravity (Rose Haldane #1)

Ignoring Gravity (Rose Haldane #1)
  • Author(s): Sandra Danby
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Rose is adopted and doesn’t know it. ‘Ignoring Gravity’ connects two pairs of sisters separated by a generation of secrets. Finding her mother’s lost diaries, Rose begins to understand why she has always seemed the outsider in her family,...

Impossible!

Impossible!
  • Author(s): Michelle Magorian
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1960s

A compelling story of London’s theatre world at the start of the 60s as 12-year old Josie tries to find success as an actress. She attends a finishing-style stage school and dreams of being on stage, but is firmly...

In Our Mad And Furious City

In Our Mad And Furious City
  • Author(s): Guy Gunuratne
  • Location(s): Neasden
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 For Selvon, Ardan and Yusuf, growing up under the towers of Stones Estate, summer means what it does anywhere: football, music, freedom. But now, after the killing of a British soldier, riots...

In Safe Hands

In Safe Hands
  • Author(s): J. P. Carter
  • Location(s): South London
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Crime
  • Era(s): Present-day

When nine children are snatched from a nursery school in South London, their distressed parents have no idea if they will ever see them again. The community in the surrounding area is in shock. How could this happen right...

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