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- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s/1940s
The Day of the Locust is a novel about Hollywood and its corrupting touch, about the American dream turned into a sun-drenched California nightmare. Nathanael West’s Hollywood is not the glamorous “home of the stars” but a seedy world...
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 1920s
A dark, riveting thriller set in 1920s Hollywood about “the greatest horror movie ever made”, the curse said to surround it, and a deadly search, decades later, for the single copy rumoured still to exist. 1927: Hollywood studio fixer...
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
Outraged by her grandfather’s illicit affair with Empire Pictures’ latest femme fatale, Roxanne Granville forsakes her position as Hollywood royalty and rejects the man who raised her, determined to strike out on her own in McCarthy-era California. Backed by...
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Hollywood loves a dead girl. She’s always so photogenic. Salma Lowe understands better than anyone how Hollywood chews up and spits out starlets. She is the offspring of Hollywood royalty, a former child-star turned guide on a true crime...
- Location(s): Hollywood, Egypt, London, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s and 1930s
1921: a boy, a girl, a moonlit midnight kiss. A terrible, repulsive kiss. Bettina and Bart have grown up as best friends, so surely they will end up together? After all, Bettina is young, rich, headstrong…. and gay. Bart...
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction, Satire
- Era(s): 1940s
Subtitled An Anglo-American Tragedy, Evelyn Waugh’s The Loved One is a witty satirical novel on artistic integrity and the British expat community in Hollywood. The more startling for the economy of its prose and plot, this novel’s story, set...
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
(The Hollywood Thriller Trilogy Book 1) Their rise was meteoric. Only a few years before, they had been three friends from Glasgow, just trying to survive tough lives of danger and dysfunction. But on one Hollywood evening in 1993,...
- Location(s): Tuscany, Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1970s and modern
Hollywood, 1975: Tragedy sends troubled film star Vivien Lockhart into the arms of Giovanni Moretti, and it seems her fortunes have finally changed. Until she meets his sister, and learns that dark shadows haunt her new husband’s past… Tuscany, Present...
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Can a Hollywood romance work in the real world? Ben Stephens has never been one to mix business and pleasure, but when he lands a huge ad campaign featuring movie star, Anna Gardiner, and it turns out she’s as...
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