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The Ship

The Ship
  • Author(s): Antonia Honeywell
  • Location(s): World, London
  • Genre(s): Dystopian, Suspense
  • Era(s): Future

Welcome to London, but not as you know it. Oxford Street burned for three weeks; Regent’s Park has been bombed; the British Museum is occupied by those with nowhere else to go. Lalla has grown up sheltered from the...

The Silver Thread

The Silver Thread
  • Author(s): Kate Lord Brown
  • Location(s): London, Paris, Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1870s / 1980s

THREE CITIES. TWO WOMEN. A STORY OF ONE HUNDRED YEARS… London, 1875. Bel has secured a design job at the newly opened Liberty store, where Japonisme is all the rage. When Hiro, a fellow designer, travels with her to...

The Slaughter Man

The Slaughter Man
  • Author(s): Tony Parsons
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

On New Year’s Day, a wealthy family is found slaughtered inside their exclusive gated community in north London, their youngest child stolen away. The murder weapon – a gun for stunning cattle before they are butchered – leads Detective Max...

The Sleeping Beauties

The Sleeping Beauties
  • Author(s): Lucy Ashe
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1945

May 1945 and at long last, Rosamund Caradon is feeling optimistic. As she returns the last few evacuees to London from her Devonshire manor, she vows to protect dance-obsessed daughter Jasmine from further peril. But a chance meeting with...

The Small Museum

The Small Museum
  • Author(s): Jody Cooksley
  • Location(s): London, Dorset
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Victorian

A chilling historical mystery set against the gothic backdrop of Victorian London, The Small Museum won the Caledonia Novel Award in 2023 and is inspired by the extraordinary treasure trove of curiosities that is the Hunterian Museum in London....

The Snow Ball

The Snow Ball
  • Author(s): Brigid Brophy
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

First published in 1964, The Snow Ball is arguably Brigid Brophy’s most brilliant fictional performance, consummately melding her avid interests in opera, sexuality and psychology. It is New Year’s Eve in London. The occasion is a costume ball on...

The Snowman of Zanzibar

The Snowman of Zanzibar
  • Author(s): Gordon Wallis
  • Location(s): Zanzibar, Cape Town, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Ex Rhodesian soldier Jason Green was frustrated and mildly depressed. The winter in London had been long and bitterly cold. The steady work as a freelance insurance fraud investigator was mundane and repetitive. This tedious monotony suddenly changes early...

The Socialite Spy

The Socialite Spy
  • Author(s): Sarah Sigal
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 1930s

A TOTALLY ABSORBING HISTORICAL NOVEL ABOUT SOCIALITES, SPIES, AND THE KING OF ENGLAND. London, 1936. Socialite and journalist Lady Pamela pens the popular ‘Agent of Influence’ column, writing wittily about fashion and high society. For her latest piece, she...

The Society of Unknowable Objects

The Society of Unknowable Objects
  • Author(s): Gareth Brown
  • Location(s): Hong Kong, London, The American South
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The world of unknowable objects – magical items that most people have no idea possess powers – has been quiet for decades . . . But three current members of a secret society have remained watchful, meeting every six...

The Source

The Source
  • Author(s): Sarah Sultoon
  • Location(s): Essex, London
  • Genre(s): Political, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1990s / 2000s

One last chance to reveal the truth… 1996. Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military base, struggling to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another binge. When her squaddie...

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