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A Dark and Twisted Tide

A Dark and Twisted Tide
  • Author(s): Sharon Bolton
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Former detective Lacey Flint quit the force for a safer, quieter life. Or that’s what she thought. Now living alone on her houseboat, she is trying to get over the man she loves, undercover detective Mark Joesbury. But Mark is missing in...

A Death At The Palace

A Death At The Palace
  • Author(s): M H Baylis
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Novel set in Wood Green. The third novel from journalist and scriptwriter MH Baylis, A Death at the Palace is set in and around Wood Green, a largely unloved and often overlooked corner of north London colonised by successive...

A Divided Inheritance

A Divided Inheritance
  • Author(s): Deborah Swift
  • Location(s): London, Spain
  • Era(s): 17th Century

~ London 1609 ~Elspet Leviston’s greatest ambition is to continue the success of her father Nathaniel’s lace business. But her dreams are thrown into turmoil with the arrival of her mysterious cousin Zachary Deane – who has his own...

A Family Scandal

A Family Scandal
  • Author(s): Zoe Miller
  • Location(s): Hong Kong, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

The Rock Star It is twenty years since rock musician Zach Anderson mysteriously plunged to his death in a lake. When media interest in the incident is suddenly re-ignited, hidden tensions fracture the glamorous facade of the Morgan family,...

A Girl Called Flotsam

A Girl Called Flotsam
  • Author(s): John Tagholm
  • Location(s): Marseilles (Marseille), London, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

For fans of Sebastian Faulks, Joanne Harris and William Boyd. Beatrice Palmentier is 36, an award-winning director. And discontent. She is about to make a documentary on world-famous restaurateur Joseph Troumeg, when the discovery of a skull on the...

A Good Confession

A Good Confession
  • Author(s): Bridget Whelan
  • Location(s): Ireland, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

This is a captivating debut novel about forbidden love…Cathleen Brogan is a young widow, struggling to bring up her family in 1960s orth London. Times are tough for the Irish immigrants who live there, their hardships comforted by the...

A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar

A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar
  • Author(s): Suzanne Joinson
  • Location(s): Kashi (Kashgar), London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s and Modern

It is 1923 and Evangeline English, keen lady cyclist, arrives with her sister Lizzie at the ancient Silk Route city of Kashgar to help establish a Christian mission. Lizzie is in thrall to their forceful and unyielding leader Millicent,...

A Lily in the Field

A Lily in the Field
  • Author(s): John Lawton
  • Location(s): Auschwitz/Birkenau, London, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1930s 1940s

Vienna, 1934. Ten-year-old cello prodigy Meret Voytek becomes a pupil of concert pianist Viktor Rosen, a Jew in exile from Germany. The Isle of Man, 1940. An interned Hungarian physicist is recruited for the Manhattan Project in Los Alomos,...

A Long Walk to Wimbledon

A Long Walk to Wimbledon
  • Author(s): H R F Keating
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): Future

HIghgate – Oxford Street – Wimbledon and more…..For London the worst has happened. There have been riots, huge uncontrolled fires, outbreaks of savage looting, artillery battles, mass flights. The great city lies three parts deserted, open to marauding gangs...

A Particular Eye for Villainy

A Particular Eye for Villainy
  • Author(s): Ann Granger
  • Location(s): England, London
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Late 1800s

When Mr Thomas Tapley is found bludgeoned to death in his sitting room, his neighbour Inspector Benjamin Ross of Scotland Yard is immediately summoned. Little is known about the elusive gentleman until Mr Jonathan Tapley, QC, hears of the...

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