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Atonement

Atonement
  • Author(s): Ian McEwan
  • Location(s): Dunkirk, England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1935 onwards

13-year-old Briony Tallis in the summer of 1935, as she attempts to stage a production of her new drama The Trials of Arabella to welcome home her elder, idolised brother Leon. But she soon discovers that her cousins, the...

Before I Met You

Before I Met You
  • Author(s): Lisa Jewell
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Early and late 20th Century

London, 1920. Arlette works in Liberty by day, and by night is caughty up in a glamorous whirl of parties, clubs, cocktails and jazz. But when tragedy strikes she flees the city, never to return. Over half a century...

Bridget Jones’s Diary

Bridget Jones’s Diary
  • Author(s): Helen Fielding
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 2000s

An entertaining meander through the life of 30 something Bridget, every aspect is explored and laid bare. Comical, wry and very entertaing, this became a cultural icon in its own right.

Fallout

Fallout
  • Author(s): Sadie Jones
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

London 1972. Luke is dazzled by the city. It seems a world away from the provincial town he has fled along with his own troubled past, and his new life is unrecognisable – one of friendships forged in pubs,...

Hide in Time

Hide in Time
  • Author(s): Anna Faversham
  • Location(s): Kent
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Early 1800s and Modern

A time travel romance: part mystery, part historical, part romance. Misjudging the man she loves, Laura leaves for America in 1814, but is shipwrecked on treacherous sands and washed ashore in 2009. Too late, she learns the truth about...

In the Summer Time

In the Summer Time
  • Author(s): Judy Astley
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

It’s twenty years since Miranda, then sixteen, holidayed in Cornwall and her life changed forever. Now she’s back again – with her mother Clare and the ashes of her stepfather Jack, whose wish was to be scattered on the...

Life after Life

Life after Life
  • Author(s): Kate Atkinson
  • Location(s): Berlin, England, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1910 onwards

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013 What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and...

Memory’s Hostage

Memory’s Hostage
  • Author(s): Margaret Pinard
  • Location(s): England, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1880s onwards

In the England of 1883, the MacFarlane family has earned a reputation for being titans of the rail, coal, and textile industries. Elder brother Henry toes the line in all respects but younger brother Horace has allowed a shadow to...

Survivor

Survivor
  • Author(s): Lesley Pearse
  • Location(s): London, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Somerset
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

It is 1938 and Mariette Carrera is a defiant, strong-willed and selfish eighteen-year-old. And sooner or later, if she stays in the small, gossipy town of Russell, New Zealand, she’ll get herself into some serious trouble. Her doting parents,...

The Art of Leaving

The Art of Leaving
  • Author(s): Anna Stothard
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Leaving comes naturally to Eva Elliott: she spent her childhood abandoning schools and cities. Now she enjoys the thrill of saying goodbye much more than the butterflies of a first smile or kiss. There s so much more potential...

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