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The Unforgotten

The Unforgotten
  • Author(s): Laura Powell
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s (mainly)

Summer, 1956. Fifteen-year-old Betty Broadbent has never left the Cornish fishing village of St Steele or ventured far beyond the walls of the boarding house run by her erratic mother. But when the London press pack descends on her...

The Unheard

The Unheard
  • Author(s): Nicci French
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

He did kill. Kill and kill and kill.’ Tess’s number one priority has always been her three-year-old daughter Poppy. But splitting up with Poppy’s father Jason means that she cannot always be there to keep her daughter safe. When...

The War of the Worlds

The War of the Worlds
  • Author(s): H G Wells
  • Location(s): England, London, Woking
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): 1890s

2012 Reprint of 1898 Edition. “The War of the Worlds” is a first-person narrative of an unnamed protagonist’s adventures in London and the countryside southwest of London as Earth is invaded by Martians. Written in 1895-1897, it is one...

The Watcher

The Watcher
  • Author(s): Ross Armstrong
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She’s watching you, but who’s watching her? Lily Gullick lives with her husband, Aiden, in a brand-new apartment opposite a building that has been marked for demolition. A keen bird-watcher, she can’t help spying on her neighbors. Until one...

The Woman on the Ledge

The Woman on the Ledge
  • Author(s): Ruth Mancini
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A woman falls to her death from a London bank’s twenty-fifth-floor roof terrace. You’re arrested for her murder. You tell the police that you only met the victim the previous night at your office party. She was threatening to...

The Yips

The Yips
  • Author(s): Nicola Barker
  • Location(s): Luton
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

2006 is a foreign country: they do things differently there. Tiger Woods’ reputation is entirely untarnished and the English Defence League does not exist yet. Storm-clouds of a different kind are gathering above the bar of Luton’s less than...

This Bleeding City

This Bleeding City
  • Author(s): Alex Preston
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

From humble origins in Scotland, via Univeristy, to the financial capital – London. Charlie Wales. Hedge funds and high octane dealings sustain the thrust of this novel, which in parts shows life behind the financial headlines..the hard egded trading...

Thornfield Hall

Thornfield Hall
  • Author(s): Jane Stubbs
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1800s

“The Rochesters are very good at keeping secrets…Thornfield Hall, 1821. Alice Fairfax takes up her role as housekeeper of the estate. But when Mr Rochester presents her with a woman who is to be hidden on the third floor,...

Three Brothers

Three Brothers
  • Author(s): Peter Ackroyd
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century

Three Brothers follows the fortunes of Harry, Daniel and Sam Hanway, born on a post-war council estate in Camden Town. Marked out from the start by curious coincidence, each boy is forced to make his own way in the...

Three Ways to Capsize a Boat

Three Ways to Capsize a Boat
  • Author(s): Chris Stewart
  • Location(s): England, Spetses, The Atlantic Ocean
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Never having skippered a boat, Chris Stewart sails against the tide in the Solent, progresses to Spetses in Greece and then attempts a journey across the Atlantic.

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