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FAMILY

FAMILY
  • Author(s): Owen Mullen
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present Day

Family – might be the death of you… The Glass family business is crime, and they’re good at what they do. Vengeance took Luke Glass behind bars – but now he’s free and he’s never going back. Luke wants...

Famous Last Words

Famous Last Words
  • Author(s): Gillian McAllister
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s Camilla’s first day back at work, her daughter’s first day at nursery. But husband Luke is nowhere to be seen. The only trace of him is an unfinished note. Camilla tries to put it out of her mind;...

Far From Home

Far From Home
  • Author(s): Na'ima B Robert
  • Location(s): Zimbabwe (Rhodesia), London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

Katie and Tariro are worlds apart but their lives are linked by a terrible secret, gradually revealed in this compelling and dramatic story of two girls grappling with the complexities of adolescence, family and a painful colonial legacy. 14-year-old...

Fathers and Fugitives

Fathers and Fugitives
  • Author(s): Michiel Heyns (Translator), S J Naudé
  • Location(s): London, South Africa
  • Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Daniel is a queer journalist living in London. His relationships appear to be sexually fulfilling but sentimentally meagre. He has no relationships outside of sexual ones, and can seem at once callow and, at times, cold to the point...

Fever Pitch

Fever Pitch
  • Author(s): Nick Hornby
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): late 20th century

Fever Pitch is Nick Hornby’s million-copy-selling, award-winnning football classic ‘A spanking 7-0 away win of a football book. . . inventive, honest, funny, heroic, charming’ Independent For many people watching football is mere entertainment, to some it’s more like...

Find Me in the Stars: a Cevenoles Sagas novel

Find Me in the Stars: a Cevenoles Sagas novel
  • Author(s): Jules Larimore
  • Location(s): Cévennes (Cevennes), London, Rotterdam, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): late 17th century

Inspired by a true story, this refugee’s tale of sacrifice, separation, and abiding love unfolds in the rugged Cévennes Mountains of Languedoc, France, 1697 in a sweeping adventure during a time of religious divisiveness and Louis XIV’s oppressive rule....

Finding It

Finding It
  • Author(s): Leah Marie Brown
  • Location(s): London, Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Falling in love is the ultimate faux pas. Anything can happen in a year! Unemployed, homeless, and left at the altar, Vivia Perpetua Grant could see her future as a flannel pajama wearing spinster—or worse, a bag lady shuffling...

Fingersmith

Fingersmith
  • Author(s): Sarah Waters
  • Location(s): London
  • Era(s): 1860s

A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK (BOOKER PRIZE GEMS) The book that inspired Park Chan-wook’s astonishing film The Handmaiden. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Booker Prize London 1862. Sue Trinder, orphaned at birth, grows...

Fire Rush

Fire Rush
  • Author(s): Jacqueline Crooks
  • Location(s): Bristol, Jamaica, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s onwards

London, 1978. Yamaye, a woman in her 20s unsure of who she is, but with dreams of being a DJ and MC. Yamaye lives for the weekend, when she can go raving with her friends at The Crypt, an...

First and Only Destiny

First and Only Destiny
  • Author(s): Gloria Silk
  • Location(s): London, India
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

First Love… It’s love at first sketch for shy, sheltered art major Lia Abraham, when she meets the Bollywood-gorgeous Devraj Shah at a London university. But she refuses to show her undeniable attraction to the gregarious genius, who is...

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