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The Patient

The Patient
  • Author(s): Teri Terry
  • Location(s): London, Dorset
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

I feel the steady thump of my new heart beating inside me. The surgeon said everything went well. But I can’t stop thinking about my donor: the girl who was killed. Her death saved my life. But now whoever...

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • Author(s): Oscar Wilde
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th Century

‘How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young… If it was only the other way!’ Wilde’s first and only published novel recounts the story of handsome Dorian Gray...

The Playground Murders

The Playground Murders
  • Author(s): Lesley Thomson
  • Location(s): West London, The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980 & 2018

Forty years ago, in the dark of the playground, two children’s lives were changed for ever. Stella Darnell is a cleaner. But when she isn’t tackling dust and dirt and restoring order to chaos, Stella solves murders. Her latest...

The Poison Tree

The Poison Tree
  • Author(s): Erin Kelly
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1990s

I have given up so much and done so many terrible things already for the sake of my family that I can only keep going. I do not know what is going to happen to us. I am frightened,...

The Portrait Artist

The Portrait Artist
  • Author(s): Dani Heywood-Lonsdale
  • Location(s): London, Oxford
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 19th Century

One morning in 1890, a painting wrapped in brown paper appears on the steps of the National Gallery and causes a sensation. It’s clearly by Timothy Ponden-Hall, whose paintings were celebrated and debated not just for their beauty, but...

The Postcard

The Postcard
  • Author(s): Leah Fleming
  • Location(s): London, Australia
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s and 2002

2002, Australia. When Melissa discovers a postcard addressed to ‘Desmond’ among her recently deceased father’s effects, she is determined to discover this person’s identity and his relationship to her father. She soon embarks on a journey that will take...

The Potato Factory

The Potato Factory
  • Author(s): Bryce Courtenay
  • Location(s): Hobart, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1800s

Ikey Solomon is in the business of thieving and he’s very good at it. Ikey’s partner in crime is his mistress, the forthright Mary Abacus, until misfortune befalls them. They are parted and each must make the harsh journey...

The Professional

The Professional
  • Author(s): Ashok Ferrey
  • Location(s): Colombo, London, North London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

It is a universally acknowledged truth that an immigrant in England must in want of a visa. In 1980s London, young Sri Lankan Chamath, recently down from Oxford with a degree in Maths, struggles to reconcile himself to the...

The Promise of Summer

The Promise of Summer
  • Author(s): Bella Osborne
  • Location(s): London, Sheffield
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ruby’s life is about to change for ever… After years of dating losers, cheats and one guy who did something unrepeatable to her kettle, Ruby has all but given up on romance. But then a stranger sits next to...

The Pursuit

The Pursuit
  • Author(s): Christopher Nicole
  • Location(s): London, Bolivia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Lady Miranda Lichton determines to marry a wealthy Bolivian rancher, her family is concerned. When they discover that Ramon Cuesta actually grows cocaine on a global scale and is prepared to resort to murder when necessary, they determine...

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