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A Place Called Winter

A Place Called Winter
  • Author(s): Patrick Gale
  • Location(s): London, Saskatchewan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Earlier 20th Century

A shy but privileged elder son, Harry Cane has followed convention at every step. Even the beginnings of an illicit, dangerous affair do little to shake the foundations of his muted existence – until the shock of discovery and...

A Private Business

A Private Business
  • Author(s): Barbara Nadel
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Barbara Nadel brings us a new and original pair of detectives in poverty-stricken Stratford East, whose inhabitants are cynical about any possible improvements the Olympic Park can make to their wretched lives. Here another set of Londoners is impelled...

A Stranger in Mayfair

A Stranger in Mayfair
  • Author(s): Charles Finch
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): Late 1800s

Lenox is now married to Lady Jane and is an MP in the House of Commons. Ludovic Starling, a fellow MP, has asked Lenox to investigate the murder of one of his footman.

Absolute Beginners

Absolute Beginners
  • Author(s): Colin MacInnes
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1958

‘I swore by Elvis and all the saints that this last teenage year of mine was going to be a real rave. Yes, man, come whatever, this last year of the teenage dream I was out for kicks and...

Agency

Agency
  • Author(s): William Gibson
  • Location(s): London, San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Dystopian, Thriller, Time Slip

San Francisco, 2017. Clinton’s in the White House, Brexit never happened – and Verity Jane’s got herself a new job. They call Verity ‘the app-whisperer,’ and she’s just been hired by a shadowy start-up to evaluate a pair-of-glasses-cum-digital-assistant called...

All Tomorrow’s Parties

All Tomorrow’s Parties
  • Author(s): Nicole Fitton
  • Location(s): Italy, London, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1980

Set in the music industry of 1980’s London, All Tomorrow’s Parties is a journey through life and love. Laine Marshall isn’t a product of the 1980s she is the epitome of it. 18 years of age and working for...

Alys, Always

Alys, Always
  • Author(s): Harriet Lane
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Frances Thorpe, a sub-editor on the books pages of the Questioner, is one of those quiet women it’s advisable to watch. A thirty-something living alone in a shabby north London flat, she’s stuck in a job that she thinks...

Amazing Disgrace

Amazing Disgrace
  • Author(s): James Hamilton-Paterson
  • Location(s): London, Tuscany
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Set both in Tuscany and in the trendy haunts of London, this is the hilarious sequel to Cooking with Fernet Branca. The inimitable Gerald Samper is back, with his musings on the absurdities of modern life and his entertaining...

Americanah

Americanah
  • Author(s): Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Location(s): London, Nigeria, North America
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

From the award-winning author of ‘Half of a Yellow Sun,’ a powerful story of love, race and identity. As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the...

An Accident in Paris

An Accident in Paris
  • Author(s): Gavin Collinson
  • Location(s): London, South East England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present back to 1997

HE’S INVESTIGATING THE DEATH OF A PRINCESS. THE TRUTH COULD COST HIM HIS LIFE. AUGUST 1997: A PRINCESS DIES IN PARIS. NOW, MARC NOVAK MUST FIND OUT WHAT REALLY HAPPENED. When private investigator Marc Novak is hired to investigate...

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