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What Goes Around: A London Cycle Courier’s Story

What Goes Around: A London Cycle Courier’s Story
  • Author(s): Emily Chappell
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Emily Chappell never meant to be a cycle courier. She planned to earn her living using her mind rather than her legs. She thought it’d be a useful stopgap while searching for a ‘real’ job. Today, six years on,...

Baptism

Baptism
  • Author(s): Max Kinnings
  • Location(s): England, London, Snowdonia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

07:45am. A monk lies dead in Snowdonia, a knife protruding from his throat. A young family is being held at gunpoint in a house in Wimbledon. The mission has begun. 08:56am. A London Underground train is stationary in a...

city-lit London

city-lit London
  • Author(s): Heather Reyes
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Various

London is the world’s most happening, most exciting and most diverse city. From Roman stronghold and capital of the British Empire to financial powerhouse and city of the 2012 Olympics, London has always looked to the past and the...

The Medici Mirror

The Medici Mirror
  • Author(s): Melissa Bailey
  • Location(s): France, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Modern and 16th Century

A hidden room When architect Johnny Carter is asked to redesign a long-abandoned Victorian shoe factory, he discovers a hidden room deep in the basement. A dark, sinister room, which contains a sixteenth-century Venetian mirror. A love in danger...

The Silent Resistance

The Silent Resistance
  • Author(s): Anna Normann
  • Location(s): Haugesund, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

Occupied Norway, 1944. While the war rages on, Anni is surviving as best she can, contributing to the resistance whenever possible and standing firm without her sailor husband Lars, who she hasn’t heard from in three years. Her daughter...

The Silent Tide

The Silent Tide
  • Author(s): Rachel Hore
  • Location(s): England, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s and Modern

When Emily Gordon, editor at a London publishing house, commissions an account of great English novelist Hugh Morton, she finds herself steering a tricky path between Morton’s formidable widow, Jacqueline, who’s determined to protect his secrets, and the biographer,...

Apple Tree Yard

Apple Tree Yard
  • Author(s): Louise Doughty
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Yvonne Carmichael has worked hard to achieve the life she always wanted: a high-flying career in genetics, a beautiful home, a good relationship with her husband and their two grown-up children. Then one day she meets a stranger at...

Charlotte Street

Charlotte Street
  • Author(s): Danny Wallace
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Jason is a former teacher, who now works as a journalist on a free newspaper. One day he sees an attractive woman with loads of bags trying to get into a taxi. He endeavours to help and as she...

84 Charing Cross Road

84 Charing Cross Road
  • Author(s): Helene Hanff
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

This is a series of letters charting the twenty-year correspondence between Hanff, searching for books which she could not find her homeland and Frank Doel, a London antiquarian bookseller. A unique and touching exchange, the friendship blossoms, but Hanff...

A Better Quality of Murder (Lizzie Martin 3)

A Better Quality of Murder (Lizzie Martin 3)
  • Author(s): Ann Granger
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 19th Century

Evil lurks on the streets of Victorian London in this gripping crime novel. As Inspector Ben Ross of Scotland Yard walks homeward one Saturday night in late October 1867, the fog that swirls around him is like a living...

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