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Salvation

Salvation
  • Author(s): Harriet Steel
  • Location(s): England, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Later 16th Century

The year is 1586. Tom Goodluck, lawyer’s clerk and aspiring playwright, is forced to leave his home in Salisbury when an enemy threatens to expose his affair with the wife of a wealthy merchant. At first his future in...

Saturday

Saturday
  • Author(s): Ian McEwan
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

Henry Perowne is up very early one Saturday morning. He looks out of his window and sees a plane crashing. His day gets no better when he is assaulted, and with huge consequences that play out on his values...

Scandalous Women

Scandalous Women
  • Author(s): Gill Paul
  • Location(s): London, Los Angeles, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

1966: In London, Jackie Collins‘s racy The World is Full of Married Men hits bookshops and launches her career. In New York, Jacqueline Susann‘s debut novel Valley of the Dolls is published, and she’s desperate for it to be...

Secret London – an Unusual Guide (Jonglez Guides)

Secret London – an Unusual Guide (Jonglez Guides)
  • Author(s): Rachel Howard
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Explore London in a very different and unusual way. This is not a typical guidebook, but takes you off the beaten track – away from the bustling tourist hub. Pray in a floating church, for example, or sail on...

Sepulchre Street

Sepulchre Street
  • Author(s): Martin Edwards
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

Rachel Savernake Golden Age Mysteries, Book 4 London, 1930s: Rachel Savernake is attending renowned artist Damaris Gethin’s latest exhibition, featuring live models who pose as famous killers. But that’s just the warm-up act… Unsure why she was invited, Rachel...

Silent in the Grave

Silent in the Grave
  • Author(s): Deanna Raybourn
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1800s

The first in the Lady Grey series. It’s London, 1886. To say I met Nicholas Brisbane over my husband’s dead body is not entirely accurate. Edward, it should be noted, was still twitching upon the floor…For Lady Julia Grey,...

Small Island

Small Island
  • Author(s): Andrea Levy
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1948

Queenie Bligh has given up waiting for her husband Bernard to come back from his service in the Second World War, and to make ends meet has let rooms in her house out to immigrants from Jamaica, among them...

Small Pleasures

Small Pleasures
  • Author(s): Clare Chambers
  • Location(s): South London
  • Genre(s): Romance, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): 1950s

1957, the suburbs of South East London. Jean Swinney is a journalist on a local paper, trapped in a life of duty and disappointment from which there is no likelihood of escape. When a young woman, Gretchen Tilbury, contacts...

Soho 4 A.M.

Soho 4 A.M.
  • Author(s): Nuala Casey
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Mid 2000s

6 July 2005. Great Britain has just been announced as the next host of the Olympics. The euphoric crowds pour forth from Trafalgar Square into the waiting bars and restaurants of Soho. Dreams, drugs, debauchery… Soho is London’s red...

Someone Else’s Shoes

Someone Else’s Shoes
  • Author(s): Jojo Moyes
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A story of mix-ups, mess-ups and making the most of second chances, this is the new novel from international sensation Jojo Moyes, author of Me Before You and The Giver of Stars ‘A delightful reverse-Cinderella story of two women...

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