- Location(s): The Philippines
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Jesse sees dead people, monsters, demons, and lots of other things that go bump in the night that no one else can see. No one except his ailing grandmother – a woman who used her visions to help those...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1938 onwards
A group of Londoners set against the background of impending war, their individual stories, told with panache. Day to day lives vividly portrayed, the eccentrics, the comedy, and the heroism of the individaul.
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Alex Sinclair couldn’t jump on a plane fast enough. Broken from an unexpected betrayal, she flees sunny Florida for the Britannia cool of London—home of her favourite TV shows, plays, and fangirl heroes. Alex believes London is where she...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Children, Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
It was the kind of story that barely made the news. When 91-year-old Alice Hoffman died in her top-floor flat on a busy London road, it’s upheld as an example of what has gone wrong with modern society: she...
- Genre(s): Nature, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
Tom Chivers follows hidden pathways, explores lost islands and uncovers the geological mysteries that burst up through the pavement and bubble to the surface of our streets. From Roman ruins to a submerged playhouse, from an abandoned Tube station...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Future, Dystopian, Fiction
- Era(s): Later 2020s
A TENSE, TICKING-BOMB THRILLER SET IN A GRITTY NEAR-FUTURE LONDON LONDON 2027 Terrorists deploy London Black, a highly sophisticated nerve gas, at Waterloo Station. For ten percent of the population – the ‘Vulnerables’ – exposure means near-certain death. Only...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Set in 2006
‘Tough, urban prose from an author with a sharp, distinctive style and an ear for the language of London’s naughtier characters. Keenaghan’s love for his city shines through in this driven, thumping novel. Cult fiction for the 2020s.’ –...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
London Rules might not be written down, but everyone knows rule one. Cover your arse. Regent’s Park’s First Desk, Claude Whelan, is learning this the hard way. Tasked with protecting a beleaguered prime minister, he’s facing attack from all...
London Under London: A Subterranean Guide
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Travelogue
- Era(s): Various
The London we know and see is only the tip of the iceberg. Beneath the familiar surface lies an unknown city, a Hades of buried and forgotten rivers, sunken sewers, underground railways, pipes and passages, tubes and tunnels, crypts...
London’s No.1 Dog-Walking Agency
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
Kate MacDougall always knew her heart wasn’t really in her job at Sotheby’s. All around her, her friends were finding their dream jobs and whooshing up career ladders, fulfilled and glowing with success, flush with easy credit. After yet...
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