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The Girl in the Gallery

The Girl in the Gallery
  • Author(s): Alice Castle
  • Location(s): Dulwich
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to Dulwich… It’s a perfect summer’s morning in the plush south London suburb, and thirty-something Beth Haldane sneaks off to visit one of her favourite places – the world-famous...

The Girl in the Ice

The Girl in the Ice
  • Author(s): Robert Bryndza
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a young boy discovers the body of a woman beneath a thick sheet of ice in a South London park, Detective Erika Foster is called in to lead the murder investigation. The victim, a beautiful young socialite, appeared to have...

The Girl Who Dared to Dream

The Girl Who Dared to Dream
  • Author(s): Diney Costeloe
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1912

London, 1912. It is two years before the outbreak of World War 1, and the Oakley family are typical of their time. Andrew has been clerk at a City solicitors for twenty years. Alice, his wife, keeps the home...

The Girl Who Just Wanted To Have Fun

The Girl Who Just Wanted To Have Fun
  • Author(s): Jenni Regan
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2006-8

Three stories. Three women. Three very different lives. Watch out for the unexpected twist! Liz is a career woman who is desperately trying to break through the glass ceiling in the world of finance, Betsy is the motherly figure...

The Golden Rule

The Golden Rule
  • Author(s): Amanda Craig
  • Location(s): Cornwall, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Hannah is invited into the First-Class carriage of the London to Penzance train by Jinni, she walks into a spider’s web. Now a poor young single mother, Hannah once escaped Cornwall to go to university. But once she...

The Good Neighbour

The Good Neighbour
  • Author(s): Annie Doyle
  • Location(s): London, Bournemouth, Gateshead, New York City (NYC), Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

Three women making their way in an ever-changing world. Will they find happiness and finally lay the ghosts of the past to rest? London 1922 – Ivy prepares to divorce her cruel husband, but finds the law is not...

The Halfways

The Halfways
  • Author(s): Nilopar Uddin
  • Location(s): Bangladesh, London, New York City (NYC), Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A breathtaking debut novel from an exciting new voice in fiction – coming July 2022! Nasrin and Sabrina are two sisters, who on the face of things live successful and enviable lives in London and New York. When their...

The Hand That First Held Mine

The Hand That First Held Mine
  • Author(s): Maggie O'Farrell
  • Location(s): London
  • Era(s): 1950s onwards

Winner of the 2010 Costa Novel Award and a Sunday Times bestseller, THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE by Maggie O’Farrell is a gorgeously written story of love and motherhood from the author of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE....

The Haunting of Alma Fielding

The Haunting of Alma Fielding
  • Author(s): Kate Summerscale
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Paranormal
  • Era(s): Late 1930s

London, 1938. Alma Fielding, an ordinary young woman, begins to experience supernatural events in her suburban home. Nandor Fodor – a Jewish-Hungarian refugee and chief ghost hunter for the International Institute for Psychical research – begins to investigate. In...

The Haunting of Lindy Pennyworth

The Haunting of Lindy Pennyworth
  • Author(s): Sam Pope, Camilla Montemaggi (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Oxford, North London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A psychological horror that will grip you from the first page, and haunt you long after you’ve finished the last. Nobody believes Lindy when she says she doesn’t pull her hair out on purpose. Nobody believes Lindy when she...

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