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Playing Nice

Playing Nice
  • Author(s): J P Delaney
  • Location(s): North London
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Pete Riley answers the door one morning to a parent’s worst nightmare. On his doorstep is Miles Lambert, who breaks the devastating news that Pete’s two-year-old, Theo, isn’t Pete’s real son – their babies got mixed up at birth....

Portrait of a Spy

Portrait of a Spy
  • Author(s): Daniel Silva
  • Location(s): London, New York City (NYC), World
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Gabriel Allon and his wife Chiara,his Italian wife are still trying to retire to the English countryside and really go back to art restoration. Gabriel Allon, secret agent, assassin and master art restorer, returns in a spellbinding new novel...

Powder Necklace

Powder Necklace
  • Author(s): Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
  • Location(s): Ghana, London, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

To protect her daughter from the fast life and bad influences of London, her mother sent her to school in rural Ghana. The move was for the girl’s own good, in her mother’s mind, but for the daughter, the...

Questions of Travel

Questions of Travel
  • Author(s): Michelle de Kretser
  • Location(s): Australia, London, Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Laura travels the world before returning to Sydney, where she works for a publisher of travel guides. Ravi dreams of being a tourist until he is driven from Sri Lanka by devastating events. An enthralling array of people, places...

Rapeseed

Rapeseed
  • Author(s): Nancy Freund
  • Location(s): Kansas, London, Surrey
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern

A colorful novel of a woman’s self-discovery and family secrets — about moving abroad to finally find her own heart and home. ‘Rapeseed’ is a wonderful coming-of-age novel about a teenage boy, an extraordinary woman, and an American family...

Red Menace

Red Menace
  • Author(s): Joe Thomas
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s, 1980s

Live Aid, July 1985. The great and the good of the music scene converge to save the world. But the TV glitz cannot disguise ugly truths about Thatcher’s Britain. Jon Davies and Suzi Scialfa have moved on since the...

Ridley Road

Ridley Road
  • Author(s): Jo Bloom
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Soho. Summer, 1962. Twenty-year-old Vivien Epstein, a Jewish hairdresser from Manchester, arrives in London following the death of her father. Alone in the world, she is looking for Jack Fox, a man she had a brief but intense love...

Room 706

Room 706
  • Author(s): Ellie Levenson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Kate stretches her legs and turns on the TV while James washes away the traces of their morning. She watches in horror at the unfolding news: the hotel they are staying in has been taken under siege. She should...

Sacrilege

Sacrilege
  • Author(s): S J Parris
  • Location(s): Canterbury, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1580s

Perfect for fans of C.J. Sansom and The Name of the Rose, the third historical thriller featuring Giordano Bruno, heretic, philosopher and spy. In the pursuit of power, nothing is sacred… Summer, 1584. The Protestant Prince William of Orange...

Salaam Brick Lane

Salaam Brick Lane
  • Author(s): Tarquin Hall
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

After ten years living abroad, Tarquin Hall wanted to return to his native London. Lured by his nostalgia for a leafy suburban childhood spent in south-west London, he returned with his Indian-born, American fiance in tow. But, priced out...

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