The Lonely Londoners
A poignant and often humorous portrayal of West Indian immigrants striving to build new lives in 1950s London, navigating racism, loneliness…
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Offshore
A vivid portrait of an eccentric houseboat community on the Thames, where lives intertwine in unexpected ways amid the struggle for belongin…
NW
Zadie Smith’s NW is a vivid, tragicomic portrait of four Londoners navigating the complexities of identity, class, and friendship in a city …
City of the Mind
An architect navigating the ruins of his failed marriage and the layered history of London, Matthew Halland confronts the past and present a…
The Buddha of Suburbia
A vibrant coming-of-age story set in 1970s South London, following Karim Amir as he navigates identity, race, class, and belonging amidst so…
London Fields
A terminally ill writer in a decaying London races against time to narrate the doomed Nicola Six’s story, a murder mystery entwined with dar…
A Stranger City
A gripping, polyphonic novel set in contemporary London, where the discovery of a dead woman in the Thames sparks a search that reveals the …
River
A woman escapes her past by moving to a London suburb, where solitary walks along the River Lea awaken memories of rivers from her life, ble…
Evenings and Weekends
Set in a scorching June 2019 London, this searing tale explores love, sex, class, and the struggles of a group of intertwined lives on the b…
Murphy
Samuel Beckett's first novel, Murphy, is a darkly comic exploration of isolation and the search for stupor in a fragmented world, told throu…
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
George Orwell's novel follows Gordon Comstock, a poet who rebels against society's obsession with money, only to face the harsh realities of…
The Ballad of Peckham Rye
A devilish Scottish migrant named Dougal Douglas arrives in a working-class London town, stirring chaos, secrets, and upheaval in this wicke…
A Concise Chinese–English Dictionary for Lovers
A young Chinese woman named Z arrives in London to learn English and navigate love, culture, and identity, told through her evolving English…
Capital
Karl Marx's seminal work dissects the capitalist system with unparalleled depth, offering a critical analysis that remains relevant today.
A Touch of Mistletoe
A poignant coming-of-age novel following sisters Victoria and Blanche as they navigate poverty, family struggles, and the pursuit of art and…
The Lowlife (Faber Editions)
A gritty dive into Hackney’s underworld through the eyes of Harryboy Boas, a Jewish bachelor whose life spirals into crime, debt, and violen…
The Glass Pearls (Faber Editions)
A gripping noir thriller about an ex-Nazi surgeon hiding in 1960s London, blending psychological tension with moral complexity from the accl…
Things I Learned While I Was Dead
A gripping sci-fi debut exploring medical ethics, consent, and survival in a dystopian future where cryogenics offers hope but hides dark se…
Letters from Wonderland
A beautifully illustrated collection of letters that guides readers into discovering the magic and mystery hidden in everyday places, helpin…
Yellow Moon (Playscript)
A modern medicine woman in New Orleans battles supernatural forces and racial tensions, blending ancient voodoo with contemporary healing in…
