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My Friends
  • Author(s): Hisham Matar
  • Location(s): Libya, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An intensely moving novel about three friends living in political exile and the emotional homeland that deep friendships can provide – from the Booker-shortlisted, Pulitzer prize-winning author of THE RETURN Khaled and Mustafa meet at university in Edinburgh: two...

My Lady’s Secrets

My Lady’s Secrets
  • Author(s): Katy Moran
  • Location(s): London, Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Turn of 19th Century

Regency England When rebellious aristocrat Cressida and Lord Greville parted ways, they swore never to meet again. Their short marriage had already descended into bitter estrangement, destroyed by scandal and betrayal. Years later, Greville is a soldier in the...

My Lies, Your Lies

My Lies, Your Lies
  • Author(s): Susan Lewis
  • Location(s): Paris, Devon, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present and looking back to 1960s

For readers of Lisa Jewell, Diane Chamberlain, and Jodi Picoult comes another gripping novel from internationally bestselling author Susan Lewis, about an eccentric old woman, the ghost-writer helping write her memoirs, and the destructive secrets binding them together. Ghost-writer...

My Life as a Bench

My Life as a Bench
  • Author(s): Jaq Hazell
  • Location(s): Richmond-upon-Thames, London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Mystery, Paranormal, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ren Miller has died aged seventeen and yet her consciousness lives on, inhabiting her memorial bench by the River Thames in London. Ren longs to be reunited with her boyfriend Gabe, but soon discovers why he has failed to...

My Lover’s Lover

My Lover’s Lover
  • Author(s): Maggie O'Farrell
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

From the Costa Award winning Maggie O’Farrell comes the Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller MY LOVER’S LOVER, an intense, unnerving and passionate story of betrayal, loss and love, with all the frisson and psychological intensity of Rebecca. When Lily...

My Ripper Hunting Days

My Ripper Hunting Days
  • Author(s): Bernard Boley
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Late Victorian era

Woodrow Riley, a young man working at the London Hospital is introduced to a man named Doctor Francis Tumblety who says he collects human organs for his medical research. Woodrow is asked to help him and gladly accepts only...

Naturally Nic/k

Naturally Nic/k
  • Author(s): Kathryn Rossati
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Time Slip
  • Era(s): Mid Victorian era

Nic loves to perform magic tricks, but after the girls at school made fun of her, she hid her passion, thinking she’d never be good enough. When Nic’s class goes on a school trip to the Thames Tunnel to...

Neither Here Nor There

Neither Here Nor There
  • Author(s): Miriam Drori
  • Location(s): Jerusalem, London
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Love in an exotic setting. Esty’s life was laid out for her from birth. She would marry one of a handful of young men suggested to her and settle down to raise a large family in a tiny space...

Never Be Broken

Never Be Broken
  • Author(s): Sarah Hilary
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Children are dying on London’s streets. Frankie Reece, stabbed through the heart, outside a corner shop. Others recruited from care homes, picked up and exploited; passed like gifts between gangs. They are London’s lost. Then Raphaela Belsham is killed....

Neverwhere

Neverwhere
  • Author(s): Neil Gamon
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fantasy

A “kafkaesque” novel set around the tube in London. “Mind the gap”. It is astory of life in the underbelly of the city, shady human characters, speaking rats and special “guides”.

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