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One Yellow Eye

One Yellow Eye
  • Author(s): Leigh Radford
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Horror, Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): Future

Full of heartbreak, revulsion and black humour, a scientist desperately searches for a cure to a zombie virus while also hiding a monumental secret – her undead husband. Kesta’s husband Tim was the last person to be bitten in...

One-Armed Jack: Uncovering the Real Jack the Ripper

One-Armed Jack: Uncovering the Real Jack the Ripper
  • Author(s): Sarah Bax Horton
  • Location(s): London, Whitechapel
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): Present looking back to 1888

Using a different analytical approach, for the first time, Sarah Bax Horton identifies a named perpetrator as Jack the Ripper by linking eye-witness accounts of the killer’s distinctive physical characteristics to his official medical records. It argues that his...

Only You

Only You
  • Author(s): Lorna Peel
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present Day

Jane Hollinger is divorced and the wrong side of thirty – as she puts it. Her friends are pressuring her to dive back into London’s dating pool, but she’s content with her quiet life teaching family history evening classes....

Ordinary Human Failings

Ordinary Human Failings
  • Author(s): Megan Nolan
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1990s

Set in 1990s, ambitious reporter Tom Hargreaves stumbles across a scoop: a dead child on a London estate, with the suspicion of one reclusive family of Irish immigrants swirling in the background.

Ordinary People

Ordinary People
  • Author(s): Diana Evans
  • Location(s): South London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2008

South London, 2008. Two couples find themselves at a moment of reckoning, on the brink of acceptance or revolution. Melissa has a new baby and doesn’t want to let it change her but, in the crooked walls of a...

Ordinary Saints

Ordinary Saints
  • Author(s): Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin
  • Location(s): Ireland, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Can you imagine it? I’d say to them. Can you imagine me there in the front row in Saint Peter’s Square? The lesbian sister of a literal saint. Brought up in a devout household in Ireland, Jay is now...

Orphans of War

Orphans of War
  • Author(s): Leah Fleming
  • Location(s): Yorkshire Dales, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2 and late 20th century

The ones you leave behind are the ones that stay with you forever… When Madeleine Belfield loses her family and her home in the Blitz, she is sent to love with relatives in the relative safety of the Yorkshire...

Other Women

Other Women
  • Author(s): Emma Flint
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

It is 1923 and a country is in mourning. Thousands of husbands, fathers, sons and sweethearts were lost in Europe, millions more returned home wounded and forever changed. Beatrice Cade is an orphan, unmarried and childless. London is full...

Our Hideous Progeny

Our Hideous Progeny
  • Author(s): C E McGill
  • Location(s): London, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Adventure, Gothic, Historical
  • Era(s): 1850s

Mary is the great-niece of Victor Frankenstein. She knows her great uncle disappeared in mysterious circumstances in the Arctic but she doesn’t know why or how… The 1850s is a time of discovery and London is ablaze with the...

Our House

Our House
  • Author(s): Louise Candlish
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

On a bright January morning in the London suburbs, a family moves into the house they’ve just bought in Trinity Avenue. Nothing strange about that. Except it is your house. And you didn’t sell it. When Fiona Lawson comes...

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