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London Calling

London Calling
  • Author(s): Sara Sheridan
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1950s

Book set in 1952, London. When eighteen-year-old debutante Rose Bellamy Gore goes missing in a seedy Soho jazz club the prime suspect is young sax player, Lindon Claremont. Lindon hightails it to Brighton to seek the help of his...

London Under

London Under
  • Author(s): Peter Ackroyd
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

London Under is an atmospheric, imaginative introduction to everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheatres to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts and modern Underground stations. This book tunnels down through the geological layers, meeting...

London: The Biography

London: The Biography
  • Author(s): Peter Ackroyd
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Various

London, seen as a living organism, Ackroyd charts the ups and downs of this city, the people, the quirks, the history – and there is soooo much to tell. A real background setter for this capital of capital cities.

Love Game

Love Game
  • Author(s): Emma Rae
  • Location(s): Miami, Wimbledon
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Can a player on the court be a keeper at home? Elle’s love language is food. But finding the right kind of work in her industry is difficult. After multiple different stints and temporary work, she lands her dream...

Mind of Winter

Mind of Winter
  • Author(s): Shira Nayman
  • Location(s): London, Long Island, Shanghai
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2 onwards

The narrative unfolds through three different points of view, Oscar, Christine and Marilyn, in locations on three continents: East Hampton, Shanghai and London. A Mind of Winter is a complex, page-turning, literary psychological thriller, which takes up a rich...

Mind the Gap

Mind the Gap
  • Author(s): Tim Richards
  • Location(s): London, Melbourne, Prague, Rome
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Darius Ibrahim is not having a good week. He’s been threatened by a knife-wielding maniac on a London train, interrogated by a mysterious warrior woman beneath the city’s streets, pursued by a military death squad in Melbourne, had his...

Mistaken Identity

Mistaken Identity
  • Author(s): Alyssa J Montgomery
  • Location(s): Greece, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance

An irresistibly indulgent novel about identical twins, an autocratic tycoon, and the sensual, sophisticated Greek seaside. Greek tycoon Alex Kristidis will do anything it takes to prevent his brother marrying pop star Susie Hamlin, and Susie’s twin sister Leah...

Murder At Abbeymead Farm (Flora Steele #6)

Murder At Abbeymead Farm (Flora Steele #6)
  • Author(s): Merryn Allingham
  • Location(s): Brighton, London, Sussex Downs
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): 1957

Amateur detective duo Flora Steele and Jack Carrington have gained a reputation for crime-solving. But will they be able to untangle the latest baffling murder in the cosy village of Abbeymead? Sussex, 1957: When Flora and Jack hear that...

Murder at St Paul’s Cathedral

Murder at St Paul’s Cathedral
  • Author(s): Jim Eldridge
  • Location(s): The City of London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1941

May, 1941. One of the senior choristers at St Paul’s, Edwin Roberts, is found beaten to death in the crypt of the cathedral and Detective Chief Inspector Coburg and Sergeant Lampson are called in to investigate. The dead man...

No One Saw A Thing

No One Saw A Thing
  • Author(s): Andrea Mara
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

No one saw it happen. Your two little girls jump on the train ahead of you. As you try to join them, the doors slide shut and the train moves away, leaving you behind. Everyone is lying. It’s only...

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