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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...

If I Can’t Have You

If I Can’t Have You
  • Author(s): Charlotte Levin
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What if the problem with your love life is you? If I Can’t Have You by Charlotte Levin is an all-consuming novel about loneliness, obsession and how far we go for the ones we love. Samuel, the day we...

Ignoring Gravity (Rose Haldane #1)

Ignoring Gravity (Rose Haldane #1)
  • Author(s): Sandra Danby
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Rose is adopted and doesn’t know it. ‘Ignoring Gravity’ connects two pairs of sisters separated by a generation of secrets. Finding her mother’s lost diaries, Rose begins to understand why she has always seemed the outsider in her family,...

Impossible!

Impossible!
  • Author(s): Michelle Magorian
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1960s

A compelling story of London’s theatre world at the start of the 60s as 12-year old Josie tries to find success as an actress. She attends a finishing-style stage school and dreams of being on stage, but is firmly...

In Our Mad And Furious City

In Our Mad And Furious City
  • Author(s): Guy Gunuratne
  • Location(s): Neasden
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 For Selvon, Ardan and Yusuf, growing up under the towers of Stones Estate, summer means what it does anywhere: football, music, freedom. But now, after the killing of a British soldier, riots...

In Safe Hands

In Safe Hands
  • Author(s): J. P. Carter
  • Location(s): South London
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Crime
  • Era(s): Present-day

When nine children are snatched from a nursery school in South London, their distressed parents have no idea if they will ever see them again. The community in the surrounding area is in shock. How could this happen right...

In the Blood

In the Blood
  • Author(s): Anna Fodorova
  • Location(s): Prague, London, Munich
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

London 1988: Agata grew up in post-war Prague and believes that her mother was the only member of her family to survive the Holocaust. Then she discovers that not everyone died. Set against the background of the collapse of...

In Their Mother’s Footsteps

In Their Mother’s Footsteps
  • Author(s): Mary Wood
  • Location(s): London, Poland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

In Their Mother’s Footsteps is a moving saga set at the eve of the Second World War, by the author of the Breckton series, Mary Wood. Two girls. One horrendous war. The chance to unite a family . ....

Insatiable

Insatiable
  • Author(s): Daisy Buchanan
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Stuck in a dead-end job, broken-hearted, broke and estranged from her best friend: Violet’s life is nothing like she thought it would be. She wants more – better friends, better sex, a better job – and she wants it...

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