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If Only I Could Tell You

If Only I Could Tell You
  • Author(s): Hannah Beckerman
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A twist that will break your heart . . . An ending that will put it back together Audrey’s family has fallen apart. Her two grown-up daughters, Jess and Lily, are estranged, and her two teenage granddaughters have never...

Invasion (10)

Invasion (10)
  • Author(s): Julian Stockwin
  • Location(s): England, France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Napoleon’s forces are poised to invade Britain, and Commander Thomas Kydd’s ship is at the forefront of the fleet defending the English coast. His honour restored after temporary disgrace in the Channel Islands, and reunited with his ship Teazer,...

Is This Love?

Is This Love?
  • Author(s): Sue Moorcroft
  • Location(s): Cambridgeshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

How many ways can one woman love? When Tamara Rix’s sister Lyddie is involved in a hit-and-run accident that leaves her in need of constant care, Tamara resolves to remain in the village she grew up in. Tamara would...

I’m Not Done With You Yet

I’m Not Done With You Yet
  • Author(s): Jesse Sutanto
  • Location(s): England, New York City (NYC), Oxford
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jane is unhappy. She’s a struggling writer trapped in an underwhelming marriage with husband Ted, scraping by to pay for a mortgage for a house and a life that she’s never really wanted. There’s only ever been one person...

Joy

Joy
  • Author(s): Jonathan Lee
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Did she jump? Did she fall? Will she wake?’ On an ordinary Friday afternoon in the office, talented young lawyer Joy Stephens plummets forty feet onto a marble floor. In the shadow of this baffling event, the lives of...

Judith Paris

Judith Paris
  • Author(s): Hugh Walpole
  • Location(s): Paris, The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1720-1930

This is the second in the Herries Chronicles. Set partly in Revolutionary Paris, and partly in romantic Cumbria, Judith Paris is the story of the two very different men who love Walpole’s most delightful heroine. Daughter of Frances Herries...

Just One Evil Act (Inspector Linley 18)

Just One Evil Act (Inspector Linley 18)
  • Author(s): Elizabeth George
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

When Hadiyyah Upman disappears from London in the company of her mother, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers is as devastated as the girl’s father. They are her close friends as well as neighbours, but since the child is with her...

Keeping Up With the Germans: A History of Anglo-German Encounters

Keeping Up With the Germans: A History of Anglo-German Encounters
  • Author(s): Philip Oltermann
  • Location(s): England, Germany
  • Genre(s): Historical, Humour
  • Era(s): 1900s-2000s

In 1996, in the middle of watching an ill-tempered football match between England and Germany, Philip Oltermann’s parents tell him that they are going to leave their home city Hamburg behind and move to London. A number of worrying...

Killer Affair

Killer Affair
  • Author(s): Rebecca Chance
  • Location(s): London, Sandlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Stunning, charismatic Lexy O’Brien is the reigning queen of British reality TV. Her life in front of the camera is planned and manipulated as successfully as any military assault. But success breeds jealousy. When you’re on top, the only...

Kitchen Venom

Kitchen Venom
  • Author(s): Philip Hensher
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1980s

Winner of a Somerset Maugham Award 1997 A stunning novel of political life, betrayal and passion, which lifts the lid on vice within the Palace of Westminster…and cost Hensher his job as a House of Commons clerk. John is...

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