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Match Point

Match Point
  • Author(s): Katherine Reilly
  • Location(s): London, Wimbledon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Summer in London can only mean one thing: tennis. For two weeks Wimbledon hosts the most prestigious tennis tournament in the world and this year everyone is talking about player Kieran O’Sullivan, the infamous bad boy of the sport...

Max the Detective Cat: The Disappearing Diva

Max the Detective Cat: The Disappearing Diva
  • Author(s): Sarah Todd Taylor, Nicola Kinnear (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

With a beautifully fluffy tail and a keen nose for adventure, Max the Detective Cat is ready for any mystery… Max, chief mouse hunter at the Theatre Royal, is up to his whiskers in his first mystery! Max notices...

Maybe Next Time

Maybe Next Time
  • Author(s): Cesca Major
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Time Slip, Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Dan is Emma’s person. She’s known it since the first time she saw him dressed in lederhosen on the tube. On their fifteen year ‘dateversary’, Emma texts a list of everything she should have told Dan that morning. Tell...

Mayflies

Mayflies
  • Author(s): Andrew O'Hagan
  • Location(s): Scotland, London, Manchester
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1986 and 2017

A heartbreaking novel of an extraordinary lifelong friendship. Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life. In the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, James and Tully ignite a brilliant friendship based on music,...

Middle England

Middle England
  • Author(s): Jonathan Coe
  • Location(s): Birmingham, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Beginning eight years ago on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factories have been replaced by Poundland, and London, where frenzied riots give way to Olympic fever, Middle England follows a brilliantly vivid cast of characters through a time...

Midnight in Vienna

Midnight in Vienna
  • Author(s): Jane Thynne
  • Location(s): London, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Historical, Espionage
  • Era(s): 1938

Historical espionage at its very best. Set in 1938 in London and Vienna, a tense and atmospheric thriller told against a backdrop of uncertainty and fear as World War Two threatens. As war looms over Britain and there is...

Minaret

Minaret
  • Author(s): Leila Aboulela
  • Location(s): The Sudan, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary,

In her Muslim hijab, with her down-turned gaze, Najwa is invisible to most eyes, especially to the rich London families whose houses she cleans. But twenty years earlier, it was a different story. Najwa was at university in Khartoum...

Miranda Road

Miranda Road
  • Author(s): Heather Reyes
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

Archway, North London. Born in England to an American solider, Georgina Hardiman can’t wait to escape her stop-family. she has big plans for her life…. but she never does make it to Katmandu. The only journey she makes is...

Mirror, Mirror

Mirror, Mirror
  • Author(s): Cara Delevingne
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Current day

Sixteen-year-old friends Red, Leo, Rose, and Naomi are misfits; still figuring out who they are and who they want to be. Life isn’t perfect, but music unites them, and they’re excited about what the future holds for their band,...

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
  • Author(s): Winifred Watson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

Miss Pettigrew, an approaching-middle-age governess, was accustomed to a household of unruly English children. When her employment agency sends her to the wrong address, her life takes an unexpected turn. The alluring nightclub singer, Delysia LaFosse, becomes her new...

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