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Jukebox

Jukebox
  • Author(s): Saira Viola
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A debt-ridden lawyer’s dreams of rock stardom force him to make a Faustian bargain with his crime boss uncle; sinking into fraud and murder, he must fight to get out—or take over as boss. A real sense of place...

Just What Kind of Mother are You?

Just What Kind of Mother are You?
  • Author(s): Paula Daly
  • Location(s): Cumbria
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Your friend’s child is missing. It’s your fault. No family is perfect. A husband, three children and a full-time job, so many plates to keep spinning. No wonder you forgot you were supposed to be looking after your friend’s...

Keeper

Keeper
  • Author(s): Johana Gustawsson
  • Location(s): Falkenberg, London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1888 and 2015

Whitechapel, 1888: London is bowed under Jack the Ripper’s reign of terror. London 2015: actress Julianne Bell is abducted in a case similar to the terrible Tower Hamlets murders of some ten years earlier, and harking back to the...

Kololo Hill

Kololo Hill
  • Author(s): Neema Shah
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Uganda 1972 A devastating decree is issued: all Ugandan Asians must leave the country in ninety days. They must take only what they can carry, give up their money and never return. For Asha and Pran, married a matter...

Last Letter Home

Last Letter Home
  • Author(s): Rachel Hore
  • Location(s): Campania, Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

CAN A CHANCE ENCOUNTER UNLOCK ONE WOMAN’S PAST? On holiday in Italy, Briony Wood becomes fascinated by the wartime story of a ruined villa hidden amongst the hills of Naples. Not only is it the very place where her grandfather was...

Lead Me Into Danger

Lead Me Into Danger
  • Author(s): Daniella Bernett
  • Location(s): Venice, London
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Journalist…A Jewel Thief…And A Russian Spy… When Their Paths Cross, It’s Murder. Journalist Emmeline Kirby hasn’t laid eyes on her former lover Gregory Longdon, a jewel thief, in two years. But she literally tumbles into his arms, after...

Letters to a Beekeeper

Letters to a Beekeeper
  • Author(s): Steve Benbow, Alys Fowler
  • Location(s): London, Birmingham
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs

This the story of how, over the course of a year, Alys, the Guardian gardening writer, learns how to keep bees; and Steve, the urban beekeeper, learns how to plant a pollinator-friendly garden. Part beautifully designed coffee-table book, part...

Life’s a Beach and Then…

Life’s a Beach and Then…
  • Author(s): Julia Roberts
  • Location(s): England, Mauritius
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Holly Wilson has landed a dream job which involves her staying at five-star resorts around the world. There is however a proviso. She must travel incognito and that means telling lies. Holly hates lies. Her cover story, designed to...

Light Rains Sometimes Fall

Light Rains Sometimes Fall
  • Author(s): Lev Parikian
  • Location(s): West Norwood
  • Genre(s): Nature, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 2020/21

See the British year afresh as we follow twelve months via the traditional Japanese calendar of seventy-two seasons: revealing the beauty of small and subtle changes with joy and verve.

Lockdown

Lockdown
  • Author(s): Peter May
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Horror
  • Era(s): Modern

‘They said that twenty-five percent of the population would catch the flu. Between seventy and eighty percent of them would die. He had been directly exposed to it, and the odds weren’t good.’ A CITY IN QUARANTINE London, the...

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