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High Rise Mystery

High Rise Mystery
  • Author(s): Sharna Jackson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

The detective duo everyone is dying to meet! Summer in London is hot, the hottest on record, and there’s been a murder in THE TRI: the high-rise home to resident know-it-alls, Nik and Norva. Who better to solve the...

High Tide in St Ives

High Tide in St Ives
  • Author(s): Cora Devine
  • Location(s): St Ives
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s high tide in St Ives, and a storm is brewing… Two women catch the train from London’s Paddington station, each embarking upon the long journey to Cornwall, but each with a very different story. Beautiful but troubled Senara...

High-Rise

High-Rise
  • Author(s): J G Ballard
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on “enemy” floors. In this visionary tale, human society slips into violent reverse as once-peaceful residents, driven...

Hingston’s Box

Hingston’s Box
  • Author(s): Decima Blake
  • Location(s): Devon, London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2011-2012

Since investigating the disappearance of fifteen-year-old twin boys, Hingston – a young, talented Detective Sergeant, has been tormented by night terrors. On waking, he remembers a vast, golden meadow that glows with warmth and carries the sound of rapid...

Hingston: Smoke and Mispers

Hingston: Smoke and Mispers
  • Author(s): Decima Blake
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2012

As the first door on the Advent calendar is opened, DS Hingston attempts to save the life of a teenager in a crowded London café, but ultimately fails. Seventeen-year-old Leanna Snow chokes to death. Days later, a girl from...

His at Night

His at Night
  • Author(s): Sherry Thomas
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1890s (late 19th century)

Elissande Edgerton is a desperate woman, a virtual prisoner in the home of her tyrannical uncle. Only through marriage can she claim the freedom she craves. But how to catch the perfect man? Lord Vere is used to baiting...

His Dark Materials

His Dark Materials
  • Author(s): Philip Pullman
  • Location(s): Oxford
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Magical Realism

Northern Lights Lyra Belacqua lives half-wild and carefree among the scholars of Jordan College, with her daemon familiar always by her side. But the arrival of her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, draws her to the heart of a terrible...

His Dark Sun

His Dark Sun
  • Author(s): Jude Brown
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Cli-fi
  • Era(s): 2022

London, 2022. The heat is rising and things are reaching boiling point. As the world struggles to catch up to its new climate, nineteen-year-old Luke Spargo believes hes the only one who understands whats really happening to the sun...

His Very Own Girl

His Very Own Girl
  • Author(s): Carrie Lofty
  • Location(s): Leicestershire, Normandy
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): World War II

After the War took the lives of Lulu Davies’s parents and her fiancé, she promised herself she would guard her heart carefully and concentrate on her great love—flying the biggest and best airplanes in the sky. Lulu is a...

His Wife’s Secret

His Wife’s Secret
  • Author(s): Susan Willis
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2019

David is still very much in love with his wife, Erin. When he’d bumped into her in the vet’s surgery, he’d remembered her from primary school before she’d emigrated to Australia. After her father died, she’d returned to their...

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