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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...

I Want You To Be Happy

I Want You To Be Happy
  • Author(s): Jem Calder
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Chuck and Joey meet in a bar. He’s in his mid-thirties; she’s twelve years younger. He’s long abandoned his ambition of becoming a novelist and now works as a copywriter at a big ad agency. ‘Lead copywriter,’ he corrects...

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...

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