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Christmas at the Cupcake Cafe

Christmas at the Cupcake Cafe
  • Author(s): Jenny Colgan
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

“The scent of cinnamon, orange peel and ginger perfumed the air, with a strong undercurrent of coffee. Outside the rain was battering against the large windows of the eau-de-nil-painted exterior of the Cupcake Café, tucked into a little grey...

Christmas at Tiffany’s

Christmas at Tiffany’s
  • Author(s): Karen Swan
  • Location(s): London, New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Cassie settled down too young, marrying her first serious boyfriend. Now, ten years later, she is betrayed and broken. With her marriage in tatters and no career or home of her own, she needs to work out where she...

City of Halves

City of Halves
  • Author(s): Lucy Inglis
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Young Adult

London. Girls are disappearing. They’ve all got one thing in common; they just don’t know it yet \. Sixteen-year-old Lily was meant to be next, but she’s saved by a stranger: a half-human boy with gold-flecked eyes. Regan is...

Clapham LIghts

Clapham LIghts
  • Author(s): Tom Canty
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s/Modern

Craig Tennant hates his job as an estate agent, loves a girl who has a boyfriend and lives in a London flat he can’t afford with a university friend he wishes he’d never met. That friend is Mark Hunter,...

D Is For Death

D Is For Death
  • Author(s): Harriet F Townson
  • Location(s): The West End
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Cozy Mystery, Historical
  • Era(s): 1935

1935. Dora’son the first train to London, having smuggled herself out of the house in the middle of the night to escape her impending marriage. But unluckily for her, Dora’s fiance is more persistent than most and follows. As...

Dark Aemelia

Dark Aemelia
  • Author(s): Sally O'Reilly
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1592-1616

The daughter of a Venetian musician but orphaned as a young girl, Aemilia Bassano grows up in the court of Elizabeth I, becoming the Queen’s favourite. She absorbs a love of poetry and learning, maturing into a striking young...

Death and the Conjuror

Death and the Conjuror
  • Author(s): Tom Mead
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1936

1936, London. A celebrity psychiatrist is discovered dead in his locked study. There seems to be no way a killer could have escaped unseen. There are no clues, no witnesses, and no evidence of the murder weapon. Stumped by...

Death of an Officer

Death of an Officer
  • Author(s): Mark Ellis
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1943

No. 6 in the DCI Frank Merlin series. London. Spring 1943. While Europe continues to suffer under the iron fist of Nazi occupation, Britain remains battered but unbowed. DCI Frank Merlin, already contending with a booming wartime crime wave...

Deep Shelter

Deep Shelter
  • Author(s): Oliver Harris
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller

London is steaming under a summer of filthy heat and sudden storms – and Detective Nick Belsey, of Hampstead CID, is trying to stay out of trouble. But then somebody sets him a riddle. How does a man walk...

Diamond Street

Diamond Street
  • Author(s): Rachel Lichtenstein
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

Second book in a trilogy featuring London streets. Intimately connected to the area both personally (her family run a jewellery business there) and professionally (as an artist archivist of London’s streets), Rachel Lichtenstein is uniquely placed to explore the...

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