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The Actor

The Actor
  • Author(s): Chris MacDonald
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

At long last, Adam Sealey has an Oscar within reach. Working with his controversial former mentor, Jonathan, he’s given the performance of a lifetime, and he almost believes it might be worth the cost. Because Adam subscribes to “the...

The Alice Network

The Alice Network
  • Author(s): Kate Quinn
  • Location(s): France, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): First half 20th Century

In an enthralling new historical novel from national bestselling author Kate Quinn, two women—a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947—are...

The Almanack

The Almanack
  • Author(s): Martine Bailey
  • Location(s): Chester, Cheshire, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 18th century

SUPERSTITION. MURDER. VENGEANCE. Tabitha Hart earns a scandalous living in London, with whichever gentleman has enough coin for her company. But in the summer of 1752, her mother urgently summons her home to the village of Netherlea and she...

The Alone Alternative

The Alone Alternative
  • Author(s): Linda MacDonald
  • Location(s): London, Devon, Isles of Scilly
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2012

Former classmates Edward and Marianne, now fifty-five, have experienced a turbulent few years having lost contact with each other and suffered painful disruption to their home lives. Reunited again, this time through Twitter, they set about a search for...

The Apartment

The Apartment
  • Author(s): K L Slater
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

It’s an opportunity she can’t refuse. The woman before her tried… Freya Miller needs a miracle. In the fallout of her husband’s betrayal, she’s about to lose her family home, and with it the security she craves for her...

The Apothecary

The Apothecary
  • Author(s): Maile Meloy
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern

It’s 1952 and the Scott family has just moved from Los Angeles to London. Here, fourteen-year-old Janie meets a mysterious apothecary and his son, Benjamin Burrows—a fascinating boy who’s not afraid to stand up to authority and dreams of...

The Art of a Lie

The Art of a Lie
  • Author(s): Laura Shepherd-Robinson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1749

London, 1749 Hannah Cole’s world shatters following her husband’s brutal murder. Her confectionary shop, the Punchbowl and Pineapple, teeters on the brink of ruin. Just as she uncovers a hidden fortune―money her husband secretly possessed―a new nightmare begins. Magistrate...

The Authenticity Project

The Authenticity Project
  • Author(s): Clare Pooley
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Six strangers with one thing in common: their lives aren’t always what they make them out to be. What would happen if they told the truth instead? Julian Jessop is tired of hiding the deep loneliness he feels. So...

The Autograph Man

The Autograph Man
  • Author(s): Zadie Smith
  • Location(s): London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

The Autograph Man follows one Alex-Li Tandem: a twenty-something Chinese-Jewish autograph dealer turned on by sex, drugs and organised religion. From London to New York, love to death, fathers to sons, Alex tries to discover how a piece of...

The Beast of Buckingham Palace

The Beast of Buckingham Palace
  • Author(s): David Walliams, Tony Ross (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 2120, Future

Fly into a fiery and fantastical future with No. 1 bestselling author David Walliams, in an epic adventure of myth and legend, good and evil, and one small boy who must save the world Illustrated by the artistic genius...

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