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Love Marriage

Love Marriage
  • Author(s): Monica Ali
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Yasmin Ghorami has a lot to be grateful for: a loving family, a fledgling career in medicine, and a charming, handsome fiancée, fellow doctor Joe Sangster. But as the wedding day draws closer and Yasmin’s parents get to know...

Love On Location

Love On Location
  • Author(s): Lynne Shelby
  • Location(s): London, Athens, Greek Islands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When screenwriter Laurel Martin is hired to rewrite the script for a new timeslip blockbuster, she expects the historical advisor hired by the studio to be an elderly academic who won’t interfere too much with her writing. But when...

Love Your Life

Love Your Life
  • Author(s): Sophie Kinsella
  • Location(s): Italy, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

I love you . . . but what if I can’t love your life? Ava is sick of online dating. She’s always trusted her own instincts over an algorithm, anyway, and she wants a break from it all. So...

Love’s Child

Love’s Child
  • Author(s): Lizzie Chantree
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Current day

Friendship, loyalty and deadly secrets. Jemima Trent is desperate to have a designer baby to keep up with her socialite friends, reconnect with her work-obsessed husband, Lucas, and regain some respect from her domineering father. Something curious is happening...

Lucie Dumas

Lucie Dumas
  • Author(s): Katherine Mezzacappa
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Nineteenth-century

London, 1871: Lucie Dumas of Lyon has accepted a stipend from her former lover and his wife, on condition that she never returns to France; she will never see her young son again. As the money proves inadequate, Lucie...

Machines Like Me

Machines Like Me
  • Author(s): Ian McEwan
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Machines...

Maggie’s Kitchen

Maggie’s Kitchen
  • Author(s): Caroline Beecham
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

When the British Ministry of Food urgently calls for the opening of restaurants to feed tired and hungry Londoners during WWII, aspiring cook Maggie Johnson seems close to realising a long-held dream. After overcoming a tangle of red tape,...

Man in Armour

Man in Armour
  • Author(s): Siobhan McKenna
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

How much money is enough? How powerful do you want to be? And what price will it extract from you? An intriguing, powerful and hard-hitting novel set in the world of big money and big deals, written by a...

Mark My Words

Mark My Words
  • Author(s): Muhammad Khan
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Is the truth as simple as black and white? Mark My Words is the searing novel from Branford Boase Award-winner and 2020 World Book Day author Muhammad Khan, asking who you can trust when all you see is lies....

Mary Anne

Mary Anne
  • Author(s): Daphne du Maurier
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Turn 19th Century

‘Like its heroine the book is possessed of such unforgettably vivid charm that one is seduced’ L. S. Hilton, author of Maestra In Regency London, the only way for a woman to succeed is to beat men at their...

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