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The Healing Knife

The Healing Knife
  • Author(s): S L Russell
  • Location(s): France, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present

To Rachel Keyte death is the enemy. The early loss of her beloved father from heart failure ignited a single-minded determination in her: to save as many patients as she can, and to become a consultant before the age...

The Heavens

The Heavens
  • Author(s): Sandra Newman
  • Location(s): London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1593 & 2000

New York, 2000 Kate and Ben meet at a party and fall instantly, irrevocably in love. Around them, the city glows. It is the first year without a war anywhere. A woman is president, and an air of camaraderie...

The Heights

The Heights
  • Author(s): Ian Rankin
  • Location(s): Westminster
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

MURDER COMES TO LONDON’S MOST LUXURIOUS HIGH-RISE: AND EVERY RESIDENT IS A SUSPECT. The Heights: a gleaming, high-end high-rise looming over Hyde Park. Newly built from steel and smoked glass, a billionaire’s playground offering sumptuous suites for the global...

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 Highland Falcon Thief

The Highland Falcon Thief
  • Location(s): London, Edinburgh, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Children

Harrison Beck is reluctantly joining his travel-writer Uncle Nat for the last journey of the royal train, The Highland Falcon. But as the train makes its way to Scotland, a priceless brooch goes missing, and things are suddenly a...

The House of Fallen Sisters

The House of Fallen Sisters
  • Author(s): Louise Hare
  • Location(s): Covent Garden, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 1700s

December, 1765. In the early hours of the morning, Sukey Maynard flees her home – a brothel in Covent Garden. Her maidenhood is about to be auctioned off to the highest bidder, and she is too frightened to stay....

The House of Mirrors

The House of Mirrors
  • Author(s): Erin Kelly
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Gothic
  • Era(s): 1990s onwards

One of them has killed before. One of them will kill again. In the sweltering summer of 1997, straight-laced, straight-A student Karen met Biba – a bohemian and impossibly glamorous aspiring actress. A few months later, two people were...

The House on Hawthorn Road

The House on Hawthorn Road
  • Author(s): Megan Wynne
  • Location(s): Dublin, London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1950, Present Day

Two centuries, two children, one house Beth didn’t want to move to Dublin – she misses her old life and her friends back in London. New home and new school is hard enough, but to make matters worse someone...

The House With No Rooms

The House With No Rooms
  • Author(s): Lesley Thomson
  • Location(s): Kew, London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary and 1976

KEW: The summer of 1976 was the hottest in living memory. In the Botanical Gardens at Kew, a lost little girl, dizzied by the heat, thought she saw a woman lying dead on the ground. But when she opened...

The Husbands

The Husbands
  • Author(s): Holly Gramazio
  • Location(s): London, West Norwood
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Modern

Lauren’s attic, she slowly realises, is creating an endless supply of husbands for her. There’s the one who pretends to play music on her toes. The one who’s too hot (there must be a catch). The one who makes...

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