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Kew Gardens

Kew Gardens
  • Author(s): Virginia Woolf
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 1920s

It was first published privately in 1919, then more widely in 1921 in the collection Monday or Tuesday. Originally accompanying illustrations by Vanessa Bell, its visual organisation has been described as analogous to a post-impressionist painting. Set in the...

Killing State

Killing State
  • Author(s): Jude O'Reilly
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What if the person you’re ordered to kill Is the woman you want to protect? Michael North, assassin and spy-for-hire, is very good at killing bad guys. But what happens when his shadowy bosses at the dark heart of...

Kindred Hearts

Kindred Hearts
  • Author(s): Grace Lowrie
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Natasha (Tasha) Graham is a quiet and lonely museum assistant, when her glamorous childhood best-friend sweeps back into her life. Celeste Walker is everything Tasha is not; popular, wealthy and confident, but she also has a mysterious twin brother,...

Kindred Spirits: Tower of London

Kindred Spirits: Tower of London
  • Author(s): Jennifer C Wilson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A King, three Queens, a handful of nobles and a host of former courtiers… In the Tower of London, the dead outnumber the living, with the likes of Tudor Queens Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard rubbing shoulders with one...

Kissing Games

Kissing Games
  • Author(s): Evie Alexander
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands, Castle Leod, Inverness, London
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She always puts work before play… Fiery actress Valentina Valverde is in Scotland filming Braveheart 2. Working without a break since she was a child to buy her family the perfect life, she’s always put fun on hold. But...

Kite Spirit

Kite Spirit
  • Author(s): Sita Brahmachari
  • Location(s): London, The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

During the summer of her GCSEs Kite’s world falls apart. Her best friend, Dawn, commits suicide after a long struggle with feeling under pressure to achieve. Kite’s dad takes her to the Lake District, to give her time and...

Last Days in Cleaver Square

Last Days in Cleaver Square
  • Author(s): Patrick McGrath
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s looking back to the 1930s

It is 1975 and an old man, Francis McNulty, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, is beset with sightings in his garden of his old nemesis, General Franco. The general is in fact in Spain, on his deathbed,...

Last One at the Party

Last One at the Party
  • Author(s): Bethany Clift
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): The near future

THE END OF EVERYTHING WAS HER BEGINNING It’s December 2023 and the world as we know it has ended. The human race has been wiped out by a virus called 6DM (‘Six Days Maximum’ – the longest you’ve got...

Last Twilight in Paris

Last Twilight in Paris
  • Author(s): Pam Jenoff
  • Location(s): Paris, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s looking back

A Parisian department store, a mysterious necklace and a woman’s quest to unlock a decade-old mystery are at the center of this riveting novel of love and survival, from New York Times bestselling author Pam Jenoff London, 1953. Louise is still adjusting to...

Late in the Day

Late in the Day
  • Author(s): Tessa Hadley
  • Location(s): Hampstead
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The lives of two close-knit couples are irrevocably changed by an untimely death in this Sunday Times bestselling novel Alex and Christine and Zach and Lydia have been inseparable since their twenties. From student house-shares and grubby pubs to...

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