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An Alphabet of London

An Alphabet of London
  • Author(s): Christopher Brown
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

London is the only city in the world where you could ever find Gilbert and George sharing space with the Gherkin and the Globe while the Great Fire burns and a gin drinker glugs her favorite tipple, and where...

An Equal Music

An Equal Music
  • Author(s): Vikram Seth
  • Location(s): London, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

When The Maggiore, an English Quartet undertakes a challenging work of Beethoven’s, violinist Michael Holme is taken back to memories of playing this piece in Vienna as a student. At the same time he falls in love with Julia...

An Uncertain Place

An Uncertain Place
  • Author(s): Fred Vargas
  • Location(s): France, London, Serbia
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

This is the sixth novel featuring Commissaire Adamsberg that has been translated into English. It starts in London, at Highgate Cemetery where Adamsberg,along with two colleagues, is attending a conference.They chance upon a pile of shoes with severed feet...

And Only to Deceive

And Only to Deceive
  • Author(s): Tasha Alexander
  • Location(s): France, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): Mid 1800s

Emily is married and widowed within the first couple of pages and she comes to realise how little she knew of him. She starts to investigate this leads her into a mystery involving forgeries of Ancient Greek artefacts.

Attend

Attend
  • Author(s): West Camel
  • Location(s): Deptford
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Sam falls in love with Deptford thug Derek, and Anne’s best friend Kathleen takes her own life, they discover they are linked not just by a world of drugs and revenge; they also share the friendship of the...

Backhand

Backhand
  • Author(s): Liza Cody
  • Location(s): London, Sarasota
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Featuring Anna Lee, on the tennis court, where she is asked to investigate a missing person.the investigation becomes increasingly complex, taking Anna from London to Sarasota, Florida, where she is drawn into the underworld of high finance, violence, and...

Beautiful Lies

Beautiful Lies
  • Author(s): Clare Clark
  • Location(s): London, Scotland, Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1880s

It is 1887, and an unsettled London is preparing for Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee. For Maribel Campbell Lowe, the beautiful, bohemian wife of a maverick politician, it is the year she plans to make her own mark on the...

Bellies

Bellies
  • Author(s): Nicola Dinan
  • Location(s): Cologne (Köln), Kuala Lumpur, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It begins as your typical boy meets boy. Tom and Ming meet on a night out at university and fall hard for each other. It’s not long before they are planning a future and building a life. Then Ming...

Bethnal Green

Bethnal Green
  • Author(s): Amélie Skoda
  • Location(s): Bethnal Green, London, Penang
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Penang, 1971. When Suyin is offered the opportunity of a lifetime – a place as a trainee nurse in London’s Bethnal Green hospital – she jumps at the chance to leave her job as a seamstress and unite with...

Birdsong

Birdsong
  • Author(s): Sebastian Faulks
  • Location(s): France, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1910-1970

Set before and during the great war, Birdsong captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale. It is the story of Stephen, a young Englishman, who arrives in Amiens in 1910. Over the...

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