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I Saw A Man

I Saw A Man
  • Author(s): Owen Sheers
  • Location(s): London, Nevada, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Hampstead. New York. Nevada. The event that changed all of their lives happened on a Saturday afternoon in June, just minutes after Michael Turner – thinking the Nelsons’ house was empty – stepped through their back door. After the...

If I Should Die

If I Should Die
  • Author(s): Matthew Frank
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Greenwich, London. When a homeless man walks into Greenwich police station and confesses a killing, it should be the admission that cracks open a murder enquiry. Instead, he stumbles out on to the street and collapses, bleeding from a...

Imagined London

Imagined London
  • Author(s): Anna Quindlen
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Anna Quindlen has visited London on numerous occasions and has written this account of London, based on her own literary map, tracing the footsteps of her favourite literary characters – where, for example, the bright young things of Evelyn...

Indefensible

Indefensible
  • Author(s): James Woolf
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

A lawyer crosses a dangerous line with a former client and discovers that some decisions are indefensible… Daniel, a criminal barrister, is working all hours on a sensational trial, defending a client he believes is wrongfully accused of a...

Innocents

Innocents
  • Author(s): Francesca Segal
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Adam and Rachel are getting married at last. Childhood sweetheartswhose lives and families have been intertwined for years: theirs is set to be the wedding of the year. But then Rachel’s cousin Ellie makes an unexpected return to the...

Jack Maggs

Jack Maggs
  • Author(s): Peter Carey
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1830s

Jack Maggs, raised and deported as a criminal, has returned from Australia, in secret and at great risk. What does he want after all these years, and why is he so interested in the comings and goings at a...

King Soloman’s Carpet

King Soloman’s Carpet
  • Author(s): Barbara Vine
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Jarvis Stringer lives in a crumbling schoolhouse overlooking a tube line, compiling his obsessive, secret history of London’s Underground. His presence and his strange house draw a band of misfits into his orbit: young Alice, who has run away...

Last Train from Liguria

Last Train from Liguria
  • Author(s): Christine Dwyer Hickey
  • Location(s): Dublin, Liguria, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s and 1990s

From the bestselling Irish novelist, here comes a sweeping tale of consequences that spans from the 1930s to the 1990s. “Last Train from Liguria” takes us on a journey from claustrophobic Dublin and the tense formality of London, to...

Lavender Road

Lavender Road
  • Author(s): Helen Carey
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early WW2, 1939/40

BATTERSEA: London at war – set in 1939 and 1940, Lavender Road follows the entwined lives of the women who live in one South London street during World War 2. Lavender Road boasts a pawnbroker, a pub, two rows...

Lights Out for the Territory

Lights Out for the Territory
  • Author(s): Iain Sinclair
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Walking the streets of London, Iain Sinclair traces nine routes across the territory of the capital. Connecting people and places, redrawing boundaries both ancient and modern, reading obscure signs and finding hidden patterns, Sinclair creates a fluid snapshot of...

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