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The First 48 Hours

The First 48 Hours
  • Author(s): Simon Kernick
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A COP NEEDS TO CRACK A DEADLY CASE He’s a detective hunting cold-blooded killers, but does he know more than he admits? A MOTHER HAS TO SAVE HER DAUGHTER She’s a lawyer who must defend a murderer – but...

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
  • Author(s): Hallie Rubenhold
  • Location(s): Ashford, London
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1880s

Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed ink-dust...

The Forgotten Crown

The Forgotten Crown
  • Author(s): James Haddell
  • Location(s): London, Glastonbury
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

“The time is now at hand for the Hallows of Arthur to be gathered. For unity not division; for love not war; for creation not destruction; for grace not law.” Tia Trevelyan’s quest to uncover the secrets of her...

The Foundling

The Foundling
  • Author(s): Stacey Halls
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1750s

London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at London’s Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the child she has never known. Dreading the worst, that Clara has died in care, Bess is astonished to be...

The Fourth Shore

The Fourth Shore
  • Author(s): Virginia Baily
  • Location(s): Tripoli, London, Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s and 1930s

The Fourth Shore: the sliver of fertile land along the Tripoli coast, the ‘lost’ territory Mussolini promised to reclaim for Italy. Which is how, in 1929, seventeen-year-old Liliana Cattaneo arrives there from Rome on a ship filled with eager...

The Fraud

The Fraud
  • Author(s): Zadie Smith
  • Location(s): Jamaica, Kilburn, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1873

Kilburn, 1873. The ‘Tichborne Trial’ has captivated the widowed Scottish housekeeper Mrs Eliza Touchet and all of England. Readers are at odds over whether the defendant is who he claims to be – or an imposter. Mrs Touchet is...

The Getaway

The Getaway
  • Author(s): Rona Halsall
  • Location(s): Croatia, London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Would you swap houses – and lives – with a stranger? Maddie and her long-term boyfriend, Tom, dream of a life living and working abroad, though right now they’re settling for a lovely vacation in the sunny European beach...

The Ghost Factory

The Ghost Factory
  • Author(s): Jenny McCartney
  • Location(s): London, Northern Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th century

A powerful debut set in Belfast and London in the latter years of the twentieth century. The Troubles turned Northern Ireland into a ghost factory: as the manufacturing industry withered, the death business boomed. In trying to come to...

The Ghouls of Calle Goya

The Ghouls of Calle Goya
  • Author(s): Owen Jones
  • Location(s): London, Fuengirola, Norway, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Horror
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When London banker Frank marries Joy, a spirited young Thai woman with dreams of sun-soaked Spain, a borrowed apartment in Fuengirola seems like the perfect wedding gift. But this quiet street on the Costa del Sol — Calle Goya...

The Girl Before

The Girl Before
  • Author(s): J P Delaney
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Enter the world of One Folgate Street and discover perfection . . . but can you pay the price? Jane stumbles on the rental opportunity of a lifetime in London: the chance to live in a beautiful ultra-minimalist house...

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