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The End of the Affair

The End of the Affair
  • Author(s): Graham Greene
  • Location(s): London
  • Era(s): 1940s

Set in London during and just after World War II, Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair is a pathos-laden examination of a three-way collision between love of self, love of another and love of God. The affair in...

The Enduring Influence of Ken Potts

The Enduring Influence of Ken Potts
  • Author(s): Paul Connolly
  • Location(s): Lundy Island, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

When four singers discover a curious vocal technique called The Fifth Voice, they reveal a prize that changes their lives. But the death of Ken, their inspirational coach and mentor, leaves them grief-stricken and uncertain about the future. Vince,...

The Evil Beneath

The Evil Beneath
  • Author(s): A J Waines
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

There’s a body in the water – and she’s wearing your clothes… Impulsive and intrepid psychotherapist, Juliet Grey, can’t resist responding to an anonymous text message telling her to go to Hammersmith Bridge at dawn. But it isn’t simply...

The Forgotten Daughter

The Forgotten Daughter
  • Author(s): Renita D'Silva
  • Location(s): Udupi, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

‘You were adopted’. Three simple words, in a letter accompanying her parent’s will, tear Nisha’s carefully ordered world apart. Raised in England, by her caring but emotionally reserved parents, Nisha has never been one to take risks. Now, with...

The Gate of Angels

The Gate of Angels
  • Author(s): Penelope Fitzgerald
  • Location(s): Cambridge, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1912

Set in Cambridge and London in 1912, The Gate of Angels is a love story and a novel of ideas. Fred, a rector’s son, has abandoned religion for observable truths, whereas the undereducated Daisy is a Christian for whom...

The Girl on the 88 Bus

The Girl on the 88 Bus
  • Author(s): Freya Sampson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Libby Nicholls arrives in London, broken-hearted and with her life in tatters, the first person she meets on the bus is elderly pensioner Frank. He tells her about the time in 1962 he met a girl on the...

The Girls Who Dared to Love

The Girls Who Dared to Love
  • Author(s): Diney Costeloe
  • Location(s): England, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Lead up to WW1

Three girls seem to have the world at their feet in the summer of 1914. But World War 1 is coming and things will change forever – especially for women. Lucinda McFarlane is engaged to be married to dashing...

The Hidden Child

The Hidden Child
  • Author(s): Louise Fein
  • Location(s): Surrey, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1928 to 1930

London, 1929. Eleanor Hamilton is a dutiful mother, a caring sister and an adoring wife to a celebrated war hero. Her husband, Edward, is a pioneer in the eugenics movement. The Hamiltons are on the social rise, and it...

The Hideaway (Norma Curtis)

The Hideaway (Norma Curtis)
  • Author(s): Norma Curtis
  • Location(s): Bergen-Belsen, London, North Wales
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WWII / Present Day

1945. Hedi Fischer is jostled off the train and through the gates of a Nazi concentration camp. As the prisoners are pushed inside, she frantically searches for a familiar face – anybody to make her feel less alone here....

The House Keepers

The House Keepers
  • Author(s): Alex Hay
  • Location(s): Mayfair
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

Park Lane, 1905. The grandest house in Mayfair has just dismissed its housekeeper. All manner of treasures lie behind the pillared doors – and scandalous secrets too. With the event of the season looming, nothing must go wrong. But...

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