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The Low Road

The Low Road
  • Author(s): Katharine Quarmby
  • Location(s): London, New South Wales, Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1800-1830

Norfolk, 1813. In the quiet Waveney Valley, the body of a woman – Mary Tyrell – is staked through the heart after her death by suicide. She had been under arrest for the suspected murder of her newborn child....

The Fraud

The Fraud
  • Author(s): Zadie Smith
  • Location(s): Jamaica, Kilburn, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1873

Kilburn, 1873. The ‘Tichborne Trial’ has captivated the widowed Scottish housekeeper Mrs Eliza Touchet and all of England. Readers are at odds over whether the defendant is who he claims to be – or an imposter. Mrs Touchet is...

Water Street

Water Street
  • Author(s): J P Maxwell
  • Location(s): Liverpool, Ireland, London, New Orleans
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Spy
  • Era(s): Victorian

Liverpool 1863. The American Civil War comes to the British Empire’s second city and the world’s richest port. Confederate Commander Banastre X. Dunwoody has a plan to turn the conflict by securing advanced warships, but the U.S. Government is...

The Mystery of the Lucky Cat

The Mystery of the Lucky Cat
  • Author(s): Christine McHaines
  • Location(s): Greenwich, London
  • Genre(s): Cosy Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

An impulsive act sets a cat among the pigeons on a quiet London street… After a slow year, amateur sleuth Quentin Cadbury and his sidekick, the ever-desirable Wanda Merrydrew, happen upon the lifeless form of a neighbour’s cat. Having...

The Mystery of the Hidden Fortune

The Mystery of the Hidden Fortune
  • Author(s): Christine McHaines
  • Location(s): Greenwich, London
  • Genre(s): Cosy Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

A typically useless twenty-something must grow up quickly when a house-sitting job gets him mixed up with serious crime… Quentin Cadbury is left in charge of his late aunt’s home in Greenwich, London, when his parents up sticks and...

The House on Rye Lane

The House on Rye Lane
  • Author(s): Susan Allott
  • Location(s): Peckham
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): 2008 back to 1843

They thought they’d found their dream home. They were wrong. 2008. The house Maxine and Seb have just bought was a bargain – a huge Georgian townhouse on the edge of Peckham Rye, it needs a lot of work...

Once a Monster

Once a Monster
  • Author(s): Robert Dinsdale
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mythology
  • Era(s): 1861

‘A labyrinthine delight of a novel . . . Dickensian darkness is infused with ancient myth. Historical writing at its finest . . . .’ Essie Fox, bestselling author of The Somnambulist and The Fascination London, 1861: Ten-year-old Nell...

The Curious Life of Elizabeth Blackwell

The Curious Life of Elizabeth Blackwell
  • Author(s): Pamela Holmes
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1700 - 1740

An engrossing historical saga based on the life of the eighteenth-century woman who endured loss and betrayal—and dared to pursue her dreams. Her parents warned Elizabeth that Alexander Blackwell would not make a dependable husband, and only after eloping...

Summer in Your Eyes

Summer in Your Eyes
  • Author(s): Chris Penhall
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): current

Sometimes life’s greatest adventures are found closest to home . . . Travel writer Holly Merriweather knows a fresh start is just what she needs to get her life back on track. Breaking up with her childhood sweetheart and...

The Detective

The Detective
  • Author(s): Ajay Chowdhury
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller

HAS SOMEONE GOT AWAY WITH MURDER? On the verge of a four-billion-dollar deal, a tech entrepreneur from Shoreditch is found dead in a construction site, which leads to the discovery of three skeletons over a hundred years old. But...

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