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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...

Winter’s Fairytale

Winter’s Fairytale
  • Author(s): Maxine Morrey
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Step into a winter wonderland and fall in love in the snow this Christmas… Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow… A few weeks before Christmas and a sudden blanketing of snow has closed the roads and...

WishYouWas

WishYouWas
  • Author(s): Alexandra Page, Penny Neville-Lee (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1952

Classic-feeling storytelling with bags of charm. Fans of thrilling animal adventure and enchanting underground worlds will fall in love with Wishyouwas. It’s 1952 in smog-shrouded London. Christmas might be fast approaching, but with her mum away and Uncle Frank...

With Love From London

With Love From London
  • Author(s): Sarah Jio
  • Location(s): North London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a woman inherits her estranged mother’s bookstore in London’s Primrose Hill, she finds herself thrust into the pages of a new story–hers–filled with long-held family secrets, the possibility of new love, and, perhaps, the single greatest challenge of...

Without Reservations

Without Reservations
  • Author(s): Alice Steinbach
  • Location(s): London, Oxford, Paris, Venice
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

American journalist Alice Steinbach took a year off to live in four cities – Paris, Venice, London and Oxford – when she realized she had entered a new phase of life. Her sons had graduated from college; she had...

Women of War

Women of War
  • Author(s): Louise Morrish
  • Location(s): France, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): World War One

Edie Lawrence has never been one to play by the rules. As war in Europe is declared, she disguises herself as a soldier and enlists with a London regiment, with the aim of becoming the first woman to report...

Would I Lie to You?

Would I Lie to You?
  • Author(s): Aliya Ali-Afzal
  • Location(s): Wimbledon, The City of London
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Modern

At the school gates, Faiza fits in. It took a few years, but now the snobbish mothers who mistook her for the nanny treat her as one of their own. She’s learned to crack their subtle codes, speak their...

You Can’t Hurt Me

You Can’t Hurt Me
  • Author(s): Emma Cook
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

Anna is on the brink of losing it all when she is handed the career opportunity of a lifetime – working as a ghostwriter for charismatic neuroscientist Nate. Nate’s work at the mysterious Pain Laboratory could transform millions of...

You People

You People
  • Author(s): Nikita Lalwani
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Pizzeria Vesuvio looks like any other Italian restaurant in London – with a few small differences. The chefs who make the pizza fiorentinas are Sri Lankan, and half the kitchen staff are illegal immigrants. At the centre is...

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