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On Hampstead Heath

On Hampstead Heath
  • Author(s): Marika Cobbold
  • Location(s): Hampstead, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Thorn Marsh was raised in a house of whispers, of meaningful glances and half-finished sentences. Now she’s a journalist with a passion for truth, more devoted to her work at the London Journal than she ever was to her...

On The Edge

On The Edge
  • Author(s): Jane Jesmond
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Jen Shaw has climbed all her life: daring ascents of sheer rock faces, crumbling buildings, cranes – the riskier the better. Both her work and personal life revolved around climbing, and the adrenaline high it gave her. Until she...

On The Greenwich Line

On The Greenwich Line
  • Author(s): Shady Lewis, Katharine Halls (Translator)
  • Location(s): East London, South London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In a run-down East London housing office, migrants and frustrated local government employees cross paths and try to work out what the latest policy means for them. As a favour to a friend, one man finds himself roped into...

Once a Monster

Once a Monster
  • Author(s): Robert Dinsdale
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mythology
  • Era(s): 1861

‘A labyrinthine delight of a novel . . . Dickensian darkness is infused with ancient myth. Historical writing at its finest . . . .’ Essie Fox, bestselling author of The Somnambulist and The Fascination London, 1861: Ten-year-old Nell...

One of Us

One of Us
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Day
  • Location(s): London, Cambridge
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In this compulsive story of betrayal, old bonds and buried scandals, one British establishment family comes face to face with the consequences of privilege and the true cost of power. Martin and Ben were friends for decades ― best...

Opera

Opera
  • Author(s): Julie Anderson
  • Location(s): London, Westminster
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

TRUTH NEVER DIES It had been solely personal. Not anymore. Determined to put the ghosts of her past to rest, Cassandra Fortune asks a former head of GCHQ for help, only to receive a message from beyond the grave....

Outcast

Outcast
  • Author(s): Dianne Noble
  • Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta), Penzance
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A café in Cornwall, October 2014. A frightening phone call to ROSE from her ex-husband Tom. ELLIE, their daughter, has not returned from her gap year. Is living in India helping the Untouchables. Terrified for her daughter’s safety she...

Owl Song at Dawn

Owl  Song at Dawn
  • Author(s): Emma Claire Sweeney
  • Location(s): Morecambe
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

Maeve Maloney is a force to be reckoned with. Despite nearing eighty, she keeps Sea View Lodge just as her parents did during Morecambe’s 1950s heyday. But now only her employees and regular guests recognise the tenderness and heartbreak...

Persuasion

Persuasion
  • Author(s): Jane Austen
  • Location(s): Bath, Lyme Regis
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Anne Elliot, a warm hearted young woman of 19, accepted a marriage proposal from Frederick Wentworth. A clever and ambitious young man, he had no background and both Anne’s father and her sister did not approve of her choice....

Plague

Plague
  • Author(s): Julie Anderson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

There are many ways to die. Plague is just one of them. Work on a London tube line is halted by the discovery of an ancient plague pit and, within it, a very recent corpse. A day later another...

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