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Smash all the Windows

Smash all the Windows
  • Author(s): Jane Davis
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present Day

It has taken conviction to right the wrongs. It will take courage to learn how to live again. Winner of The Selfies (Best independent fiction author) 2018 A finalist in the 2018 IAN Book of the Year Awards ‘An...

Smoke and Silk

Smoke and Silk
  • Author(s): Fiona Keating
  • Location(s): East London, Limehouse
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Victorian era

Pearl Fitzgerald arrives in Limehouse – London’s very ­first Chinatown – to settle her late father’s affairs and claim her inheritance. But when she unwittingly ­finds herself at the scene of a murder, her plans are thrown off course....

Snowblind / Fadeout

Snowblind / Fadeout
  • Author(s): Ragnar Jonasson, Larissa Kyzer (Translator), Quentin Bates (Translator)
  • Location(s): Iceland, London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

SNOWBLIND Siglufjörður: an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland, where no one locks their doors – accessible only via a small mountain tunnel. Ari Thór Arason: a rookie policeman on his first posting, far from his girlfriend in...

Someday, Maybe

Someday, Maybe
  • Author(s): Onyi Nwabineli
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Stunningly honest and bursting with wit, Someday Maybe is the story of grief and resilience that you won’t be able to stop talking about Here are three things you should know about my husband: 1. He was the great love of...

South of Darkness

South of Darkness
  • Author(s): John Marsden
  • Location(s): London, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1700s

Thirteen-year-old Barnaby Fletch is a bag-and-bones orphan in London in the late 1700s. Barnaby lives on his wits and ill-gotten gains, on streets seething with the press of the throng and shadowed by sinister figures. Life is a precarious...

Spilt Milk

Spilt Milk
  • Author(s): Amanda Hodgkinson
  • Location(s): Suffolk, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): First half 20th Century

1913. Unmarried sisters Nellie and Vivian Marsh live an impoverished existence in a tiny cottage on the banks of the Little River in Suffolk. Their life is quiet and predictable, until a sudden flood throws up a strange fish...

Square Haunting

Square Haunting
  • Author(s): Francesca Wade
  • Location(s): Bloomsbury
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): 1920s and 1930s

Mecklenburgh Square, on the radical fringes of interwar Bloomsbury, was home to activists, experimenters and revolutionaries; among them were the modernist poet H. D., detective novelist Dorothy L. Sayers, classicist Jane Harrison, economic historian Eileen Power, and writer and...

Stage Fright

Stage Fright
  • Author(s): Sara Downing
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2012

Life isn’t going too well for Phoebe Grey. Newly single and unemployed, she desperately fills her evenings with meals-for-one, the TV, Arnie, her cat – and rehearsals for an amateur dramatic play, a futuristic rewrite of Jane Austen’s ‘Pride...

Starling Days

Starling Days
  • Author(s): Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
  • Location(s): London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Mina is staring over the edge of the George Washington Bridge when a patrol car drives up. She tries to convince the officers she’s not about to jump but they don’t believe her. Her husband, Oscar is called to...

Status Drift

Status Drift
  • Author(s): Ian Robinson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Past bad choices come to trouble an undercover cop After a month of rest in a secure location in Scotland, undercover officer DS Sam Batford is given the assignment of infiltrating an organised crime syndicate. But if Batford returns...

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