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Home Fire

Home Fire
  • Author(s): Kamila Shamsie
  • Location(s): London, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The suspenseful and heartbreaking story of an immigrant family driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequences Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother’s death, she’s accepted...

House on the Bridge: Ten Turbulent Years with Diego Rivera

House on the Bridge: Ten Turbulent Years with Diego Rivera
  • Author(s): Sharon Upp
  • Location(s): London, Paris, Spain
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1910s

This is story of Diego Rivera’s first wife, Angeline Beloff, an artist from pre-revolutionary Russia and her relationship with him in, part set in Belle Époque Paris.

How to Keep Well in Wartime

How to Keep Well in Wartime
  • Author(s): Jody Cooksley
  • Location(s): Norfolk, France, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1915 to 1993

Emily needs friends. Outwardly successful, about to get married, inside she is scared and grieving. When an accident reveals a relative she never knew existed, everything changes. Jim has buried his life in a mundane job at the Ministry...

Jukebox

Jukebox
  • Author(s): Saira Viola
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A debt-ridden lawyer’s dreams of rock stardom force him to make a Faustian bargain with his crime boss uncle; sinking into fraud and murder, he must fight to get out—or take over as boss. A real sense of place...

Keeper

Keeper
  • Author(s): Johana Gustawsson
  • Location(s): Falkenberg, London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1888 and 2015

Whitechapel, 1888: London is bowed under Jack the Ripper’s reign of terror. London 2015: actress Julianne Bell is abducted in a case similar to the terrible Tower Hamlets murders of some ten years earlier, and harking back to the...

Kololo Hill

Kololo Hill
  • Author(s): Neema Shah
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Uganda 1972 A devastating decree is issued: all Ugandan Asians must leave the country in ninety days. They must take only what they can carry, give up their money and never return. For Asha and Pran, married a matter...

Lead Me Into Danger

Lead Me Into Danger
  • Author(s): Daniella Bernett
  • Location(s): Venice, London
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Journalist…A Jewel Thief…And A Russian Spy… When Their Paths Cross, It’s Murder. Journalist Emmeline Kirby hasn’t laid eyes on her former lover Gregory Longdon, a jewel thief, in two years. But she literally tumbles into his arms, after...

Letters to a Beekeeper

Letters to a Beekeeper
  • Author(s): Steve Benbow, Alys Fowler
  • Location(s): London, Birmingham
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs

This the story of how, over the course of a year, Alys, the Guardian gardening writer, learns how to keep bees; and Steve, the urban beekeeper, learns how to plant a pollinator-friendly garden. Part beautifully designed coffee-table book, part...

Light Rains Sometimes Fall

Light Rains Sometimes Fall
  • Author(s): Lev Parikian
  • Location(s): West Norwood
  • Genre(s): Nature, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 2020/21

See the British year afresh as we follow twelve months via the traditional Japanese calendar of seventy-two seasons: revealing the beauty of small and subtle changes with joy and verve.

Lockdown

Lockdown
  • Author(s): Peter May
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Horror
  • Era(s): Modern

‘They said that twenty-five percent of the population would catch the flu. Between seventy and eighty percent of them would die. He had been directly exposed to it, and the odds weren’t good.’ A CITY IN QUARANTINE London, the...

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