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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...

Our Spoons came from Woolworths

Our Spoons came from Woolworths
  • Author(s): Barbara Comyns
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

This book is set in London in the Thirties, Sophia is a young woman married to an artist, Charles. Poverty and motherhood all feature and the book is humorous, touching and beautifully written – in an almost childlike way...

Out of Sight Out of Mind

Out of Sight Out of Mind
  • Author(s): Evonne Wareham
  • Location(s): London, Wales
  • Genre(s): Paranormal, Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Madison is a scientist with a very special talent – reading minds. When she stumbles across a homeless man with whom she feels an inexplicable connection, she can’t resist using her skills to help him. Jay is a vagrant...

Overboard

Overboard
  • Author(s): Ivy Ngeow
  • Location(s): Cambodia, London, Singapore, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Thailand. An epic storm. A shipwreck. A white man has been found alive. But who is he? Suffering horrific injuries and burns, he is taken to a local hospital. He is mute. Everything is a blank. They tell him...

Paddington’s London Treasury

Paddington’s London Treasury
  • Author(s): Michael Bond, R W Alley (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Paddington Bear had travelled all the way from Darkest Peru when the Brown family first met him on Paddington station. Since then their lives have never been quite the same… for ordinary things become quite extraordinary when a bear...

Palisade

Palisade
  • Author(s): Lou Gilmond
  • Location(s): London, Westminster
  • Genre(s): Political, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Kanha and Colbey Thrillers Book 2) When opposition Chief Whip Esme Kanha is handed a secret dossier containing evidence of government corruption, she suspects its original owner, a top journalist, was murdered for gathering it. Despite the danger, she...

Pandora

Pandora
  • Author(s): Susan Stokes-Chapman
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Georgian Era, 1799

‘Weaves together Ancient Greek myth with suspenseful mystery and beguiling romance…utterly irresistible’ Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne A pure pleasure of a novel set in Georgian London, where the discovery of a mysterious ancient Greek vase sets in motion...

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