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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...

Paradise Corner (Yesterday’s Road #7)

Paradise Corner (Yesterday’s Road #7)
  • Author(s): Mary Minton
  • Location(s): East London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

When newly weds Jessamy and Dr Alistair MacKay set up their dispensary for the poor at Paradise Corner, it is the fulfilment of a long-held dream. They are pioneers in the fight against poverty and disease in London’s East...

Parallel Lines

Parallel Lines
  • Author(s): Edward St Aubyn
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

‘We set off in opposite directions and walked around the world until we met, and I’m very pleased we have…’ It is summer. Sebastian is in treatment following a breakdown that has left him with a fragile hold on...

Past Changes

Past Changes
  • Author(s): H H Detroit
  • Location(s): North London
  • Genre(s): Time Slip
  • Era(s): Now and the future

Chloe Lakeman is an aspiring actress, working in a London bar, living with Nat – her American lover she has known for two years. Or so she thinks. When she presses a button on Nat’s pendant, it transports her...

People in Love

People in Love
  • Author(s): Claire Daverley
  • Location(s): Cricklewood, Hertfordshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One bright blue day, on a bench by the river, Nora’s partner Robin proposes. It is unexpected; they’d always agreed that they didn’t need a wedding. But after a decade of in-jokes, dancing in the low-lit kitchen and sharing...

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