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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...

The Things She Owned

The Things She Owned
  • Author(s): Katherine Tamiko Arguile
  • Location(s): Okinawa, London, Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Contemporary, 1940s-50s

Years after the death of her cruel and complicated mother, Erika is still surrounded by the things she left behind: an onigiri basket, a Wedgwood tea set, a knotted ring from Okinawa. Against her Japanese family’s wishes, Erika has...

The Tigers in the Tower

The Tigers in the Tower
  • Author(s): Julia Golding
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Georgian Era

“A Little Princess with tigers! Orphan and outcast Sahira Clive is a brave and plucky heroine with a brightly burning heart. I was rooting for her all the way to the end of this thrilling and thought-provoking adventure.” Ally...

The Trial of Elizabeth Cree

The Trial of Elizabeth Cree
  • Author(s): Peter Ackroyd
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1880s

The year is 1880, the setting London’s poor and dangerous Limehouse district, home to immigrants and criminals. A series of brutal murders has occurred, and, as Ackroyd leads us down London’s dark streets, the sense of time and place...

The Tumbling Girl

The Tumbling Girl
  • Author(s): Bridget Walsh
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1870s

1876, Victorian London. Minnie Ward, a feisty scriptwriter for the Variety Palace Music Hall, is devastated when her best friend is found brutally murdered. She enlists the help of private detective Albert Easterbrook to help her find justice.   Together...

The Tunnels Below

The Tunnels Below
  • Author(s): Nadine Wild-Palmer
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

How do you find your way out of the dark? On her twelfth birthday, the last thing Cecilia expected was to find herself lost in a labyrinth of tunnels beneath London. Afraid, alone, but determined, she sets to work...

The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

The Two Lives of Lydia Bird
  • Author(s): Josie Silver
  • Location(s): Paris, Croatia, London, Los Angeles, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lydia and Freddie. Freddie and Lydia. They’d been together for more than a decade, and Lydia thought their love was indestructible. But she was wrong. On her twenty-eighth birthday, Freddie died in a car accident. So now it’s just...

The Two Roberts

The Two Roberts
  • Author(s): Damian Barr
  • Location(s): Glasgow, Ayrshire, England, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s onwards

Scotland, 1933. Bobby MacBryde is on his way. After years grafting at Lees Boot Factory, he’s off to the Glasgow School of Art, to his future. On his first day he will meet another Robert, a quiet man with...

The Tyranny of Lost Things

The Tyranny of Lost Things
  • Author(s): Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When she rents a room in the house she lived in as a child, Harmony hopes she’ll uncover the source of her nightmares about that lost time. As the London riots explode in the streets, the hot summers of...

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