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Bleak House

Bleak House
  • Author(s): Charles Dickens
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1800s

It is at once a complex mystery story that fully engages the reader in the work of detection, and an unforgettable indictment of an indifferent society. Its representations of a great city’s underworld, and of the law’s corruption and...

Blind Side

Blind Side
  • Author(s): Jennie Ensor
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Suspense
  • Era(s): 2005 in the months before and after 7/7

Can you ever truly know someone? And what if you suspect the unthinkable? London, five months before 7/7. Georgie, a young woman wary of relationships after previous heartbreak, gives in and agrees to sleep with close friend Julian. She’s...

Blood Orange

Blood Orange
  • Author(s): Harriet Tyce
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Domestic Noir
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Alison has it all. A doting husband, adorable daughter, and a career on the rise – she’s just been given her first murder case to defend. But all is never as it seems… Just one more night. Then I’ll...

Blue and Green Should Never Be Seen! (Or so Mother Says)

Blue and Green Should Never Be Seen! (Or so Mother Says)
  • Author(s): Colette Kebell
  • Location(s): Berkshire, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

GiGi (well, Griselda Griswald actually, but everybody calls her GiGi) is a woman with a mission: to help people improve the way they look, increase their self-esteem, and eventually, make them happier people. Being a personal shopper is a...

Blue Sisters

Blue Sisters
  • Author(s): Coco Mellors
  • Location(s): London, Los Angeles, New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In Blue Sisters, grief is rendered with gorgeous particularity’ RAVEN LEILANI The Blue sisters have always been exceptional – and exceptionally different. Avery, a strait-laced lawyer living in London, is the typical eldest daughter, though she’s hiding a secret...

Brixton Beach

Brixton Beach
  • Author(s): Roma Tearne
  • Location(s): London, Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century to Modern

London. On a bright July morning a series of bombs brings the capital to a halt. Simon Swann, a medic from one of the large teaching hospitals, is searching frantically amongst the chaos and the rubble. All around police...

Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s

Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s
  • Author(s): Jennifer Worth
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1950s

The East End in the 1950s, worth describes the hardships and life of a midwife, the real life situations and captures that era to perfection.

Cambridge

Cambridge
  • Author(s): Susanna Kaysen
  • Location(s): Athens, Cambridge (Massachusetts), Florence, London
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

So begins this novel-from-life by the best-selling author of Girl, Interrupted, an exploration of memory and nostalgia set in the 1950s among the academics and artists of Cambridge, Massachusetts. London, Florence, Athens: Susanna, the precocious narrator of Cambridge, would rather be home than...

Capital

Capital
  • Author(s): John Lanchester
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

Capital is set in London during the credit crunch. It is a large tome that follows the lives of a group of people who live in – or are connected to Pepys Road, in South London. It is a...

Capital Punishment

Capital Punishment
  • Author(s): Robert Wilson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller

Beautiful Alyshia D’Cruz has grown up in London and Mumbai wanting for nothing. But one night she takes the wrong cab home. Charles Boxer, expert in high-stakes kidnap resolution, teams up with his ex-partner, investigative cop Mercy Danquah, who’s...

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