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The Café on Manor Lane

The Café on Manor Lane
  • Author(s): Amelia Kyazze
  • Location(s): South London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s, 1970s and2011

The Café on Manor Lane A stranger can change your life in a moment of kindness 1952: Bella is a young French Jew in post-war London, having lost everything in WWII. When she meets Adebayo, a doctor from Nigeria,...

The Candle Man

The Candle Man
  • Author(s): Alex Scarrow
  • Location(s): The Atlantic Ocean, Whitechapel
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1912 looking back to 1880s

Jack the Ripper’s London…an eerily quiet dining room on the Titanic…and a series of murders that covers two decades. 1912. Locked in an eerily quiet dining room on the Titanic, a mysterious man tells a young girl his life...

The Cardinal’s Court

The Cardinal’s Court
  • Author(s): Cora Harrison
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 16th century

‘To shoot a man on the spur of the moment in the presence of the king and his court, not to mention the cardinal and his household, that took a boldness … Or utter despair.’ HAMPTON COURT, 1522. Lawyer...

The Case of Miss Elliott: (The Teahouse Detective 2)

The Case of Miss Elliott: (The Teahouse Detective 2)
  • Author(s): Baroness Orczy
  • Location(s): London, England
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

Every crime has its perpetrator, and every puzzle its solution. In the corner of the ABC teashop on Norfolk Street, Polly Burton of the Evening Observer sets down her morning paper, filled with news of the latest outrages, and...

The Catch

The Catch
  • Author(s): Mick Herron
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

If life in the Intelligence Service has taught John Bachelor anything, it’s to keep his head down. Especially now, when he’s living rent-free in a dead spook’s flat. So he’s not delighted to be woken at dawn by a...

The Chateau

The Chateau
  • Author(s): Karen Aldous
  • Location(s): Lake Geneva, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary, going back

Can young hearts ease a restless spirit? On the shores of stunning Lake Geneva, Gina Remy is celebrating her brother’s wedding – when the figure of a woman appears hovering above the water, beckoning to her. Ghostly visitations do...

The Child

The Child
  • Author(s): Fiona Barton
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

As an old house is demolished in a gentrifying section of London, a workman discovers human remains, buried for years. For journalist Kate Waters, it’s a story that deserves attention. She cobbles together a piece for her newspaper, but...

The Christmas Holiday

The Christmas Holiday
  • Author(s): Maxine Morrey
  • Location(s): Florida, India, London, Malaysia (Malaya), Scotland
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

As winter comes to London, journalist Mia Walker is desperately hoping for her big break as a travel writer, dreaming of exotic locations and sun-soaked beaches. When she’s invited to write a romantic travel piece that ends in a...

The Christmas Letter

The Christmas Letter
  • Author(s): Emily Stone
  • Location(s): England, London, Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Travel from the gorgeous English countryside to romantic Venice with the bestselling author of One Last Gift and Always, in December Emily Stone. Every December Holly writes to a stranger who is spending Christmas alone, and every year she...

The Christmas Project

The Christmas Project
  • Author(s): Maxine Morrey
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Could happy ever after be waiting underneath the mistletoe? Professional organiser Kate has had her share of demanding clients. But Michael O’Farrell is the most obnoxious man she’s ever met. He may be gorgeous, but if he wasn’t her...

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