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Bloomsbury Girls

Bloomsbury Girls
  • Author(s): Natalie Jenner
  • Location(s): Bloomsbury
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1950s

One bookshop. Fifty-one rules. Three women who break them all. 1950. Bloomsbury Books on London’s Lamb’s Conduit Street has resisted change for 100 years, run by men and guided by the manager’s unbreakable rules. But after the turmoil of...

The Three Of Us

The Three Of Us
  • Author(s): Ore Agbaje-Williams
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A nice house, a carefree life, a doting husband, a best friend who never leaves your side. What more could you ask for? There’s just one problem: your husband and best friend love you, but they hate each other....

Good Girls Die Last

Good Girls Die Last
  • Author(s): Natali Simmonds
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction, Suspense
  • Era(s): July 2023

Today, nothing is going right for Em. And it’s about to get much worse. Heartbroken by a recent split, with her 30th birthday looming, she loses her job and her home in the same morning because of two swaggering,...

Paradise Corner (Yesterday’s Road #7)

Paradise Corner (Yesterday’s Road #7)
  • Author(s): Mary Minton
  • Location(s): East London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

When newly weds Jessamy and Dr Alistair MacKay set up their dispensary for the poor at Paradise Corner, it is the fulfilment of a long-held dream. They are pioneers in the fight against poverty and disease in London’s East...

The Traitor

The Traitor
  • Author(s): Ava Glass
  • Location(s): The Mediterranean, London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

LONDON. EARLY MORNING. A body is found in a padlocked suitcase. Investigator Emma Makepeace knows it’s murder. And it’s personal. She quickly establishes that the dead man had been shadowing two oligarchs suspected of procuring illegal weapons in the...

The Hero of this Book

The Hero of this Book
  • Author(s): Elizabeth McCracken
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2019

Ten months after her mother’s death, the narrator of The Hero of This Book walks across London on a quiet Sunday. The city was a favourite of her mother’s, and as the narrator wanders the streets, she finds herself...

The Square of Sevens

The Square of Sevens
  • Author(s): Laura Shepherd-Robinson
  • Location(s): Bath, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th Century

‘My father had spelt it out to me. Choice was a luxury I couldn’t afford. This is your story, Red. You must tell it well . . .’ A girl known only as Red, the daughter of a Cornish...

Queuing for the Queen

Queuing for the Queen
  • Author(s): Swéta Rana
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2022

‘Beautifully sensitive, quietly reflective, this absorbing tale about a group of strangers brought together following the death of Queen Elizabeth II is an absolute triumph.’ LoveReading debut of the month One queue. 250,000 people. Twenty-four life-changing hours. A young...

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...

Canary Girls

Canary Girls
  • Author(s): Jennifer Chiaverini
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW1

Rosie the Riveter meets A League of Their Own in New York Times bestselling novelist Jennifer Chiaverini’s lively and illuminating novel about the “munitionettes” who built bombs in Britain’s arsenals during World War I, risking their lives for the war...

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