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Being Someone

Being Someone
  • Author(s): Adrian Harvey
  • Location(s): India, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Turn of the 20th century

Two stories interweave. The story of an elephant in Southern India and turn of the 21st London where a romance between a Londoner and a New Yorker is burgeoning. It is deft the way these two stories intertwine. The...

The Lido

The Lido
  • Author(s): Libby Page
  • Location(s): Brixton
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Meet Rosemary, 86, and Kate, 26: dreamers, campaigners, outdoor swimmers… Rosemary has lived in Brixton all her life, but everything she knows is changing. Only the local lido, where she swims every day, remains a constant reminder of the...

Bamboo Heart

Bamboo Heart
  • Author(s): Ann Bennett
  • Location(s): London, Penang, Singapore, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s/40s and 1980s

The First in the Bamboo Trilogy. Thailand, 1943: Thomas Ellis, captured by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore, is a prisoner-of-war on the Death Railway. In stifling heat he endures endless days of clearing jungle, breaking stone and...

Crooked Heart

Crooked Heart
  • Author(s): Lissa Evans
  • Location(s): London, St Albans
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

When Noel Bostock – aged ten, no family – is evacuated from London to escape the Blitz, he ends up living in St Albans with Vera Sedge – thirty-six and drowning in debts and dependents. Always desperate for money,...

Dominion

Dominion
  • Author(s): C J Sansom
  • Location(s): Birmingham, Brighton, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany after Dunkirk. As the long German war against Russia rages on in the east, the British people find themselves under dark authoritarian...

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...

Mistaken Identity

Mistaken Identity
  • Author(s): Alyssa J Montgomery
  • Location(s): Greece, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance

An irresistibly indulgent novel about identical twins, an autocratic tycoon, and the sensual, sophisticated Greek seaside. Greek tycoon Alex Kristidis will do anything it takes to prevent his brother marrying pop star Susie Hamlin, and Susie’s twin sister Leah...

Plague

Plague
  • Author(s): Julie Anderson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

There are many ways to die. Plague is just one of them. Work on a London tube line is halted by the discovery of an ancient plague pit and, within it, a very recent corpse. A day later another...

Ragdoll

Ragdoll
  • Author(s): Daniel Cole
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller

Believe the hype. Sold in over 32 countries and counting, RAGDOLL is the standout thriller of the year. A body is discovered with the dismembered parts of six victims stitched together like a puppet, nicknamed by the press as...

Single in the City

Single in the City
  • Author(s): Michele Gorman
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

It’s official. Hannah has left her friends and family in the US behind and is following her dream. To live in London. Unfortunately she’s completely unprepared for what’s in store. She’s going to find: 1. Her dream guy. A...

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