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Princess BMX

Princess BMX
  • Author(s): Marie Basting
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Enchanted meets BMX in this hilarious, spellbinding adventure! Trust me, the fairy tales have it so wrong. Dingy towers and wicked step-mums are the least of my worries: it’s the boredom that will kill me. Honestly, apart from the...

Prisoner 4374

Prisoner 4374
  • Author(s): A J Griffiths-Jones
  • Location(s): East London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1880’s

For more than a century, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream was a potential Jack The Ripper suspect. He was a sinister character, preying on the unfortunate souls who were forced to make a living as streetwalkers in Victorian London, and...

Private Arrangements

Private Arrangements
  • Author(s): Sherry Thomas
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1890s (late 19th century)

To all of London society, Lord and Lady Tremaine had the ideal arrangement: a marriage based on civility, courteousness, and freedom—by all accounts, a perfect marriage. The reason? For the last ten years, husband and wife have resided on...

Project Darcy

Project Darcy
  • Author(s): Jane Odiwe
  • Location(s): London, Steventon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Contemporary/Regency

It is high summer when Ellie Bentley joins an archaeological dig at Jane Austen’s childhood home. She’s always had a talent for ‘seeing’ into the past and is not easily disturbed by her encounters with Mr Darcy’s ghost at...

Promise of Purity

Promise of Purity
  • Author(s): Marguerite Martin Gray
  • Location(s): Hampton Court
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1661

Is true purity found in the laws of religion or in the hearts of the faithful? East Molesey, England, 1661 With the return of the exiled king to his rightful throne, Kate Sinclair’s world of black and white now...

Putney

Putney
  • Author(s): Sofka Zinovieff
  • Location(s): Putney, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

It is the 1970s and Ralph, an up-and-coming composer, is visiting Edmund Greenslay at his riverside home in Putney to discuss a collaboration. Through the house’s colourful rooms and unruly garden flits nine-year-old Daphne – dark, teasing, slippery as...

Puzzle Girl

Puzzle Girl
  • Author(s): Rachael Featherstone
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Present

Love is a riddle, waiting to be solved… Clued-up career girl Cassy Brookes has life under control until one disastrous morning changes everything. When she finds herself stuck in a doctor’s surgery, a cryptic message left in a crossword...

Queenie

Queenie
  • Author(s): Candice Carty-Williams
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Queenie Jenkins can’t cut a break. Well, apart from the one from her long term boyfriend, Tom. That’s definitely just a break though. Definitely not a break up. Then there’s her boss who doesn’t seem to see her and...

Queuing for the Queen

Queuing for the Queen
  • Author(s): Swéta Rana
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2022

‘Beautifully sensitive, quietly reflective, this absorbing tale about a group of strangers brought together following the death of Queen Elizabeth II is an absolute triumph.’ LoveReading debut of the month One queue. 250,000 people. Twenty-four life-changing hours. A young...

Rag-and-Bone Christmas

Rag-and-Bone Christmas
  • Author(s): Dilly Court
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1860s

Paradise Row, London. December 1865. Snow is falling fast and Sally Suggs is working tirelessly to bring in enough money to keep bread on the table. Her father, a skilled rag-and-bone man, has fallen ill and now Sally has...

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