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The Woman And The Ape

The Woman And The Ape
  • Author(s): Peter Høeg
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The woman is Madelene, rich, beautiful and alcoholic; the ape, intelligent and illegally imported to London by Madelene’s husband Burden. Burden has plans, so does Madelene, and so, as it happens, does the ape. This most controversial of Høeg’s...

The Word Is Murder

The Word Is Murder
  • Author(s): Anthony Horowitz
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper – the wealthy mother of a famous actor – enters a funeral parlor. She is there to plan her own service. Six hours later she is found dead, strangled with a...

Themis

Themis
  • Author(s): Paul Weil
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): Modern

SARAH CASTLE is a young celebrity reporter from London who stumbles upon the mystery of twelve extraordinary teenagers. One of them is HENRY BAXTER, an eighteen year-old unknown runner who just won The London Marathon. She accepts a position...

Things a Bright Girl Can Do

Things a Bright Girl Can Do
  • Author(s): Sally Nicholls
  • Location(s): East London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Suffragette Movement

Through rallies and marches, in polite drawing rooms and freezing prison cells and the poverty-stricken slums of the East End, three courageous young women join the fight for the vote. Evelyn is seventeen, and though she is rich and...

Things in Jars

Things in Jars
  • Author(s): Jess Kidd
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Victorian times

London, 1863. Bridie Devine, the finest female detective of her age, is taking on her toughest case yet. Reeling from her last job and with her reputation in tatters, a remarkable puzzle has come her way. Christabel Berwick has...

Thirteen

Thirteen
  • Author(s): Tom Hoyle
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

Born at midnight in London, on the stroke of the new millennium, Adam is the target of a cult that believes boys born on this date must die before the end of their thirteenth year. Twelve boys have been...

This Could Be Everything

This Could Be Everything
  • Author(s): Eva Rice
  • Location(s): Notting Hill
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1990

It’s 1990 and the streets of Notting Hill in London are filled with colour, life and the pulse of music from around the world. But behind the front door at 51 St Quentin Avenue, nineteen-year-old February Kingdom is Not...

This Is How It Ends

This Is How It Ends
  • Author(s): Eva Dolan
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

This is how it begins. With a near-empty building, the inhabitants forced out of their homes by property developers. With two women: idealistic, impassioned blogger Ella and seasoned campaigner, Molly. With a body hidden in a lift shaft. But...

This is London

This is London
  • Author(s): Ben Judah
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

This is London in the eyes of its beggars, bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers, witch-doctors and sex workers.  This is London in the voices of Arabs, Afghans, Nigerians, Poles, Romanians and Russians. This is London as you’ve never seen it...

This is London

This is London
  • Author(s): Miroslav Sasek
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

With the same wit and perception that distinguished his charming books on Paris, New York, and San Francisco, M Sasek presents stylish, elegant London in This is London, first published in 1959 and now updated for the 21st century....

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