Books set in United Kingdom (405)


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Murder by Matchlight by E. C. R. Lorac EN

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"Originally published in 1945 by Collins. "Permanent Policeman" was first published in MacKill's Mystery Magazine, March 1953"--Title page verso.


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My Own Story by Emmeline Pankhurst EN

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Emmeline Pankhurst was raised in a world that valued men over women. At fourteen she attended her first suffrage meeting and returned home a confirmed suffragist. Throughout her career she endured humiliation, prison, hunger strikes and the repeated frustration of her aims by men in power but she rose to become the guiding light of the Suffragette movement. This is Pankhurst's story, in her own words, of her struggle for equality.

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Nemesis by Agatha Christie EN

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When Jane Marple receives an unusual letter from Jason Rafiel, a week after his death, she is led into a web of suspense.

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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro EN

Rating: 4 (10 votes)
Country: Asia / Japan flag Japan
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NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • From the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Remains of the Day comes “a Gothic tour de force" (The New York Times) with an extraordinary twist—a moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric modern classic. As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time... continue

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Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman EN

Rating: 4 (4 votes)
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Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinarylife, which is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. His small act of kindness propels him into a world he never dreamed existed. There are people who fall through the cracks, and Richard has become one of them. And he must learn to survive in this city of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels, if he is ever to return to the London that he knew.

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Niños muertos by Martin Amis ES

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Construida utilizando la siempre fascinante estructura de la reunión de personajes en un lugar aislado, que tiene precursores tan ilustres y diversos como el Marqués de Sade o Agatha Christie, Niños muertos es un esperpéntico, sangriento y muy divertido ajuste de cuentas del autor con la cultura del placer inmediato, del sexo, las drogas y la fama instantáneos. Los habitantes de la rectoría de Appleseed -el rubio y elegante Quentin y su esposa Celia, ambos de muy buena familia, la bella e inteligente Diana, el bufonesco Keith, el ansioso y rico Giles-... continue

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No Matter What : An Adoptive Family's Story of Hope, Love and Healing by Sally Donovan EN

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[This book] tells the ... story of an ordinary couple who build an extraordinary family - describing Sally and Rob's journey from a diagnosis of infertility to their decision to adopt two children who suffered abuse in their early lives. ..."--Back cover.

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None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell EN

Rating: 4 (3 votes)
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author known for her “superb pacing, twisted characters, and captivating prose” (BuzzFeed), Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself the subject of her own popular true crime podcast. Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summer crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time ou... continue