Collection: Reservable Title Reading Group (Set of up to 10 books)

Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup is a memoir of a black man who was born free in New York state but kidnapped, sold into slavery and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before the American Civil War. He provided details of slave markets in Washington, DC, as well as describing at len...

Identical twins, Georgia and Bessi Hunter, live in the loft of 26 Waifer Avenue in Neasden. This novel watches the Hunter family as they make their way through the 1980s. Some family members having more success than others.

The story revolves around the comings and goings at No. 44 Scotland Street in Edinburgh. With its multiple-occupancy flats, Scotland Street is an interesting corner of the New Town, verging on the Bohemian, where haute bourgeoisie rub shoulders with students and the more colourful members of the ...

Since childhood David Winkler has foretold the future in his dreams. Now he has started dreaming of his daughter's death by drowning. When the floods come, David is unable to face his destiny and flees, never knowing whether Grace survived or not. Twenty years later, he musters the strength to fi...

The friends of the title are Ted Mundy, a British soldier's son born in 1947 in a newly independent Pakistan, and Sasha, the refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor and his wife who have sought sanctuary in the West. The two men meet first as students in riot-torn West Berlin of the late Si...

Katherine Nicols knew she'd had too many drinks, but they were only going a short distance. "There's no traffic anyway," Eve had pointed out. And they'd had such a great night out, the two of them. Even now, driving them home and knowing she shouldn't, seemed almost mischievous. All part of the f...

Six months ago, city girl Sophie Mills gave up everything to move to Cornwall. All to be with the man she thinks she loves, and his two daughters whom she knows she loves. But adjusting to life as a semi-permanent mother in the countryside isn't quite as easy as Sophie imagined it would be.

How does a man addicted to routine - a man who flosses his teeth before love-making - cope with the chaos of everyday life? Macon's attempts to do so are tragically and comically undone.

1660. Colonel Edward Whalley and his son-in-law, Colonel William Goffe, cross the Atlantic. They are on the run and wanted for the murder of Charles I. Under the provisions of the Act of Oblivion, they have been found guilty in absentia of high treason. In London, Richard Nayler, secretary of the...