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The Distance Between Us

The Distance Between Us
  • Author(s): Maggie O'Farrell
  • Location(s): Hong Kong, London, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Gripping, insightful and deft, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US by Maggie O’Farrell is a haunting story of the way our families shape our lives, from the award-winning author of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE. It was a Sunday Times Top...

The Doll Makers

The Doll Makers
  • Author(s): Penny Grubb
  • Location(s): London, Argyll and Bute
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Life looks good for Annie Raymond, now an experienced investigator specialising in insurance fraud. Or rather that’s how she spins it. The truth is not so rosy. As she returns to her native Argyll she has no clue how...

The Double Life of Daisy Hemmings

The Double Life of Daisy Hemmings
  • Author(s): Joanna Nadin
  • Location(s): Cornwall, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1988 / 2018

What happens when truth and lies collide? The Double Life of Daisy Hemmings is an intoxicating mystery across past and present from Joanna Nadin. 1988, Cornwall. At seventeen, Jason wants much more from life than working in his father’s...

The Dream of Jack Love

The Dream of Jack Love
  • Author(s): D W Haggard
  • Location(s): East London
  • Genre(s): Magical Realism, Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1980

Great YA fiction – Jack Love is lives in Woodford with his Grandmother, is autistic and is obsessed with the Central Line. He is a great footballer – plays for Ashton FC and is a gifted and artist. His...

The Eater of Flies

The Eater of Flies
  • Author(s): Richard Gadz
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1868

FROM THE WINNER OF THE 2022 NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR BEST HORROR Summer, 1868. London’s West End buzzes with a chaotic blend of affluence and moral decay, a place where high society and underworld meet. A valuable...

The Emperor’s Babe

The Emperor’s Babe
  • Author(s): Bernardine Evaristo
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 211 AD

A coming-of-age tale to make the muses themselves roar with laughter and weep for pity — sassy, razor-sharp and transformative. Londinium, AD 211. Zuleika is a modern girl living in an ancient world. She’s a back-alley firecracker, a scruffy...

The End Of Summer

The End Of Summer
  • Author(s): Charlotte Philby
  • Location(s): Cape Cod, Languedoc Roussillon, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Your mother is not who you think she is… When the phone rings in Judy McVee’s Languedoc farmhouse, she knows her past has finally caught up with her. It’s her daughter, frantically asking why there are journalists on her...

The End of Us

The End of Us
  • Author(s): Olivia Kiernan
  • Location(s): Wimbledon
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It all started to go wrong the day the Wrights moved in next door Myles and Lana Butler live on a gorgeous new development in Wimbledon, leaning on a mortgage that is just within reach. When one of Myles’...

The End We Start From

The End We Start From
  • Author(s): Megan Hunter
  • Location(s): England, London
  • Genre(s): Future, Cli-fi
  • Era(s): Future

Megan Hunter’s honed and spare prose paints an imagined future as realistic as it is frightening. Though the country is falling apart around them and its people are forced to become refugees, this family’s world – of new life...

The Englishman

The Englishman
  • Author(s): David Gilman
  • Location(s): London, France, The Urals
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Raglan Book 1) Penal Colony No. 74, AKA White Eagle, lies some 600 kilometres north of Yekaterinburg in Russia’s Sverdlovskaya Oblast. Imprisoning the country’s most brutal criminals, it is a winter-ravaged hellhole of death and retribution. And that’s exactly...

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