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White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings

White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings
  • Author(s): Iain Sinclair
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1880s, Modern

In this unusual novel, lain Sinclair draws a powerful portrait of London’s criminal character by mingling secrets of the modern city with menacing personas from its Victorian age. A clan of profiteering book dealers becomes obsessed with the 1888...

White City

White City
  • Author(s): Dominic Nolan
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1950s

It’s 1952, and London is victorious but broken, a city of war ruins and rationing, run by gangsters and black-market spivs. An elaborate midnight heist, the biggest robbery in British history, sends newspapers into a frenzy. Politicians are furious,...

White Riot

White Riot
  • Author(s): Joe Thomas
  • Location(s): Hackney
  • Genre(s): Political, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s/80s

1978: The National Front is gaining ground in Hackney. To counter their influence, anti-fascist groups launch the Carnival Against Racism in Victoria Park. Observing the event is Detective Constable Patrick Noble, charged with investigating racist attacks in the area...

White Teeth

White Teeth
  • Author(s): Zadie Smith
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s-90s

This is a hilarious and poignant story of two North London families, headed by Archie and by Archie’s best friend and Samas Iqbal, a Muslim originally from Bengal. An unlikely friendship they served together in the Second World War....

Who They Was

Who They Was
  • Author(s): Gabriel Krauze
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

This is a story of a London you won’t find in any guidebooks. This is a story about what it’s like to exist in the moment, about boys too eager to become men, growing up in the hidden war...

Widowland

Widowland
  • Author(s): C J Carey
  • Location(s): London, United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future, Dystopian
  • Era(s): 1953

To control the past, they edited history. To control the future, they edited literature. London, 1953, Coronation year – but not the Coronation of Elizabeth II. Thirteen years have passed since a Grand Alliance between Great Britain and Germany...

Wife

Wife
  • Author(s): Charlotte Mendelson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Romance, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): contemporary

Set in the world of London academia, both past and present, Wife by Charlotte Mendelson is heart-breaking and funny, profound and gripping, as it takes the reader from the end of a relationship to its beginning, and back again....

Wild Boy

Wild Boy
  • Author(s): Rob Lloyd Jones
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Victorian Era

A fiendishly pacy mystery-adventure story for 9+ readers, set in the seamy, smoggy underworld of Victorian London. BEHOLD THE SAVAGE SPECTACLE OF THE WILD BOY! London, 1841. A boy covered in hair, raised as a monster, condemned to life...

Wild Boy and the Black Terror

Wild Boy and the Black Terror
  • Author(s): Rob Lloyd Jones
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Victorian Era

The second in a series of pacy, mystery-adventure stories, set in the seamy, smoggy underworld of Victorian London. A new sensation grips London – a poisoner who strikes without a trace, leaving victims mad with terror … and then...

Wild Card

Wild Card
  • Author(s): Judy Murray
  • Location(s): Wimbledon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s never too late to follow your dreams… Twenty years ago, Abigail Patterson put her promising tennis career on hold to have her baby son, Robbie. But after a wild card entry to Wimbledon, she suddenly finds herself swept...

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