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How to be Good

How to be Good
  • Author(s): Nick Hornby
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): early 2000s

‘I am in a car park in Leeds when I tell my husband I don’t want to be married to him any more. . . ‘ London GP Katie Carr always thought she was a good person. With her...

How to Cheat Your Own Death

How to Cheat Your Own Death
  • Author(s): Kristen Perrin
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1960s / Contemporary

LAURA NEVER MEANT TO LIE. BUT OLD HABITS DIE HARD. When Annie Adams heads to London to visit her mother, Laura, the last thing she expects to find is a dead body. Least of all for it to be...

How to Stop Time

How to Stop Time
  • Author(s): Matt Haig
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary and historical

‘I am old. That is the first thing to tell you. The thing you are least likely to believe. If you saw me you would probably think I was about forty, but you would be very wrong.’ Tom Hazard...

Human Voices

Human Voices
  • Author(s): Penelope Fitzgerald
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

From the Booker Prizewinning author of ‘Offshore’ and ‘The Blue Flower’; a funny, touching, authentic story of life at Broadcasting House during the Blitz. The human voices of Penelope Fitzgerald’s novel are those of the BBC in the first...

Hunted

Hunted
  • Author(s): Abir Mukherjee
  • Location(s): London, Los Angeles, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Political, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

** WINNER OF THE CRIME & THRILLER BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS 2025 ** ** WINNER OF THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2025**   It’s a week before the presidential elections...

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 See London

I See London
  • Author(s): Chanel Cleeton
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Maggie Carpenter is a small-town Southern girl who’s never been kissed. She’s ready for a change—and to leave her ordinary life and a failed attempt to get into Harvard behind. She accepts a scholarship to the International School in...

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