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Kindred Spirits: Tower of London

Kindred Spirits: Tower of London
  • Author(s): Jennifer C Wilson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A King, three Queens, a handful of nobles and a host of former courtiers… In the Tower of London, the dead outnumber the living, with the likes of Tudor Queens Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard rubbing shoulders with one...

Kissing Games

Kissing Games
  • Author(s): Evie Alexander
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands, Castle Leod, Inverness, London
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She always puts work before play… Fiery actress Valentina Valverde is in Scotland filming Braveheart 2. Working without a break since she was a child to buy her family the perfect life, she’s always put fun on hold. But...

Kite Spirit

Kite Spirit
  • Author(s): Sita Brahmachari
  • Location(s): London, The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

During the summer of her GCSEs Kite’s world falls apart. Her best friend, Dawn, commits suicide after a long struggle with feeling under pressure to achieve. Kite’s dad takes her to the Lake District, to give her time and...

Last Days in Cleaver Square

Last Days in Cleaver Square
  • Author(s): Patrick McGrath
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s looking back to the 1930s

It is 1975 and an old man, Francis McNulty, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, is beset with sightings in his garden of his old nemesis, General Franco. The general is in fact in Spain, on his deathbed,...

Last One at the Party

Last One at the Party
  • Author(s): Bethany Clift
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): The near future

THE END OF EVERYTHING WAS HER BEGINNING It’s December 2023 and the world as we know it has ended. The human race has been wiped out by a virus called 6DM (‘Six Days Maximum’ – the longest you’ve got...

Late in the Day

Late in the Day
  • Author(s): Tessa Hadley
  • Location(s): Hampstead
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The lives of two close-knit couples are irrevocably changed by an untimely death in this Sunday Times bestselling novel Alex and Christine and Zach and Lydia have been inseparable since their twenties. From student house-shares and grubby pubs to...

Late Life Adventures in London and Beyond

Late Life Adventures in London and Beyond
  • Author(s): Annemarie Rawson
  • Location(s): London, Europe, United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2018

At sixty years of age and with wanderlust still coursing through her veins, Annemarie uproots her husband, Steve, once again. This time, they move to London, willing to work but eager to see and do as much as they...

Latent Damage

Latent Damage
  • Author(s): Ian Robinson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2020

It has been a busy year in a London murder squad, and Met detectives DI Nash and DS Moretti are hoping for some down-time when a fatal knife attack occurs. A respected figure in London’s Islamic community is the...

Light Perpetual

Light Perpetual
  • Author(s): Francis Spufford
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1944 onwards

November 1944. A German rocket strikes London, and five young lives are atomised in an instant. November 1944. That rocket never lands. A single second in time is altered, and five young lives go on – to experience all...

Little Bee

Little Bee
  • Author(s): Chris Cleave
  • Location(s): Nigeria, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the author of the international bestseller Incendiary comes a haunting novel about the tenuous friendship that blooms between two disparate strangers—one an illegal Nigerian refugee, the other a recent widow from suburban London.

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