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Under the Net

Under the Net
  • Author(s): Iris Murdoch
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Jake is mid 30s, a specialist translator of French to English. He relies on his social group for upkeep a lot of the time, the romantic’s life of poverty. Life always seems to work out in the end and...

Vengeance in Mind

Vengeance in Mind
  • Author(s): N J Cooper
  • Location(s): Isle of Wight
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sir Dan Blackwater, well known businessman and philanthropist is found dead one morning in his home on the Isle of Wight. Pinned to the kitchen table with butcher’s knives, he has been castrated in what looks like a gruesome...

Victory (11)

Victory (11)
  • Author(s): Julian Stockwin
  • Location(s): England, France, The Atlantic Ocean
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1805

`Stockwin continues to display his talents in transporting his audience from the 21st century to the chaotic worlds of Kydd, Renzi, and their imperiled homeland.’ – Historical Novels Review

Waiting for Wednesday (Frieda Klein 3)

Waiting for Wednesday (Frieda Klein 3)
  • Author(s): Nicci French
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Ruth Lennox, beloved mother of three, is found by her daughter in a pool of her own blood. Who would want to murder an ordinary housewife? And why? Psychotherapist Frieda Klein finds she has an unusually personal connection with...

Went to London, Took the Dog

Went to London, Took the Dog
  • Author(s): Nina Stibbe
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2022/23

Twenty years after leaving London, Nina Stibbe is back in town with her dog, Peggy. Together they take up lodging in the house of writer Deborah (Debby) Moggach in Camden for ‘a year-long sabbatical’. It’s a break from married...

West End Girls

West End Girls
  • Author(s): Barbara Tate
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1940s,

Barbara Tate was 17 when she heard the whispered word that would change her life: Soho. It would take four years for Barbara to escape her loveless home but when she finally made it to the forbidden streets of...

What the Grown-ups Were Doing: An Odyssey Through 1950s Suburbia

What the Grown-ups Were Doing: An Odyssey Through 1950s Suburbia
  • Author(s): Michele Hanson
  • Location(s): Middlesex, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Michele Hanson grew up an ‘oddball tomboy disappointment’ in a Jewish family in Ruislip in the 1950s – a suburban, Metroland idyll of neat lawns, bridge parties and Martini socials. Yet this shopfront of respectability masked a multitude of...

When Nights were Cold

When Nights were Cold
  • Author(s): Susanna Jones
  • Location(s): London, Swiss Alps, Wales
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): early 1900s onwards

The story of Grace Farringdon, who looks back on her life on the eve of the anniversary of the death of her friends. Growing up in early 1900’s Dulwich (South East London), Grace longs to escape her dreary life....

Where Have You Been?

Where Have You Been?
  • Author(s): Joseph O'Connor
  • Location(s): Dublin, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern and 19th Century

Ranging from urgently contemporary London and Dublin to New York’s Lower East Side in the nineteenth century, from dark comedy to poignancy, from the wryly provocative to the quietly beautiful, these stories offer a gathering of dreamers and lost...

Who Needs Mr Darcy?

Who Needs Mr Darcy?
  • Author(s): Jean Burnett
  • Location(s): England, Italy, Paris
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Earlier 19th Century

Mr Wickham turned out to be a disappointing husband in many ways, the most notable being his early demise on the battlefields of Waterloo. And so Lydia Wickham, nee Bennet, still not twenty and ever-full of an enterprising spirit,...

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