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The Spy’s Gamble

The Spy’s Gamble
  • Author(s): Howard Kaplan
  • Location(s): Palestine, Israel, London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 2016-2017

“Kaplan is…without peer in his grasp of the delicate and explosive relationship between the Israelis and the Palestinians. This is a thriller in the best tradition of the genre.” -Los Angeles Times When the Israeli Prime Minister boards a...

The Square

The Square
  • Author(s): Celia Walden
  • Location(s): West London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When you’ve got a house to die for Be careful who you let in . . . Colette spends a lot of her time at Addison Square, one of the most desirable addresses in West London. She knows the...

The Square of Sevens

The Square of Sevens
  • Author(s): Laura Shepherd-Robinson
  • Location(s): Bath, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th Century

‘My father had spelt it out to me. Choice was a luxury I couldn’t afford. This is your story, Red. You must tell it well . . .’ A girl known only as Red, the daughter of a Cornish...

The Story of the Forest

The Story of the Forest
  • Author(s): Linda Grant
  • Location(s): The Baltic States, Liverpool, Soho (London)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

It’s 1913 and a young, carefree and recklessly innocent girl, Mina, goes out into the forest on the edge of the Baltic sea and meets a gang of rowdy young men with revolution on their minds. It sounds like...

The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
  • Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Mystery
  • Era(s): Later 19th Century

In September of 1884, Robert Louis Stevenson, then in his mid-thirties, moved with his family to Bournemouth, a resort on the southern coast of England, where in the brief span of 23 months he revised A Child’s Garden of...

The Street Riding Years

The Street Riding Years
  • Author(s): Chris Scott
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1980s

’The Street Riding Years’ is a coming-of-age story about an urban motorcycle mercenary in 1980s London. It was a time when badly behaved messengers capitalised on London’s economic revival, when squatting was a legitimate solution to the housing crisis...

The Switch Up

The Switch Up
  • Author(s): Katy Cannon
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

WILLA Drama queen Fashion guru Spontaneous Looks like Alice ALICE Bookworm Allergic to fashion Planner Looks like Willa LAX Departure Lounge. Two girls board the same flight to London as complete strangers. When the plane touches down, it’s the...

The Tea Rose

The Tea Rose
  • Author(s): Jennifer Donnelly
  • Location(s): London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 19th century

East London, 1888—a city apart. A place of shadow and light where thieves, whores, and dreamers mingle, where children play in the cobbled streets by day and a killer stalks at night, where bright hopes meet the darkest truths....

The Temple of the Muses

The Temple of the Muses
  • Author(s): Jane Davis
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Georgian

London, 1780. As the city smoulders in the aftermath of the Gordon Riots, booksellers James and Dorcas Lackington resolve to fight despair not with charity, but with books. Convinced that reading is the surest path out of poverty, they...

The Thief Taker

The Thief Taker
  • Author(s): Janet Gleeson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th Century

Agnes Meadowes is cook to the Blanchards of Foster Lane, the renowned London silversmiths. Preparing jugged hare, oyster loaves, almond soup, and other delicacies for the family has given her a dependable life for herself and her son. But...

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