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- Location(s): Tuscany, East London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
1944, in the ruined wine cellar of a Tuscan villa, as bombs fall around them, two strangers meet and share an extraordinary evening. Ulysses Temper is a young British soldier, Evelyn Skinner is a sexagenarian art historian and possible...
- Location(s): East London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Mona and Wolfie have lived on Victoria Park for over fifty years. Now, on the eve of their sixty-fifth wedding anniversary, they must decide how to navigate Mona’s declining health. Bookended by the touching exploration of their love, Victoria...
- Location(s): Hackney, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s onwards
Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he’s lived in Hackney since the sixties. A flamboyant, wise-cracking local character with a dapper taste in retro suits and a fondness for quoting...
- Location(s): London, East London
- Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
- Era(s): 2019
You’re feeling pretty smug about your commute to work by riverboat. No more traffic gridlock or getting stuck on the tube in tunnels (you’re claustrophobic). Now you’ve got fresh air, an iconic Thames view, a whole lifestyle upgrade. You’ve...
- Location(s): Walthamstow
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 2019
Roach – bookseller, loner and true crime obsessive – is not interested in making friends. She has all the company she needs in her serial killer books, murder podcasts and her pet snail, Bleep. That is, until Laura joins...
- Location(s): London, Godstone, Hackney
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 2021 (2019/2020)
What would you do if you found your name on a hitlist? And your late husband put it there? When Marianne’s husband Greg is knocked off his bike and killed on the way to work, she must unpick the...
- Location(s): East London
- Genre(s): Thriller, Disability, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
You can choose your house. Not your neighbours. WELCOME TO YOUR DREAM HOME… Salma Khatun is extremely hopeful about Blenheim, the safe suburban development to which she, her husband and their son have just moved. Their family is in...
- Location(s): Hackney, Pembrokeshire
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘Cerys receives an unexpected inheritance but there are rules attached, twisted rules that have to be followed if she is to receive it in full . As she settles into her new life, she begins to feel trapped and...
- Location(s): East London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Hannah, Cate and Lissa are young, vibrant and inseparable. Living on the edge of a common in East London, their shared world is ablaze with art and activism, romance and revelry – and the promise of everything to come....
- Location(s): Hackney
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Later 2010s
J’s wife has left, and J is trying to understand why. How could someone you loved so much, who claimed to love you once, just walk away? How could they send divorce papers accusing you of terrible things, when...
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