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Murder on The Heath

Murder on The Heath
  • Author(s): Sabina Manea
  • Location(s): Hampstead, North London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Present day

Can ex-lawyer turned civilian investigator Lucia Steer solve an impossible murder? The apparent cool, calm and collectedness of a relationship counsellor, or ‘coach’ as Alec Penney called himself, is dealt a severe blow when he ends up dead on...

Past Changes

Past Changes
  • Author(s): H H Detroit
  • Location(s): North London
  • Genre(s): Time Slip
  • Era(s): Now and the future

Chloe Lakeman is an aspiring actress, working in a London bar, living with Nat – her American lover she has known for two years. Or so she thinks. When she presses a button on Nat’s pendant, it transports her...

Riceyman Steps

Riceyman Steps
  • Author(s): Arnold Bennett
  • Location(s): North London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

It is 1919 shortly after the termination of the 1st European holocaust. Henry Earlforward, a middle aged North London Bookseller, courts and marries Violet Arb, a widow who has inherited the confectioners shop opposite his own premises in Riceyman...

The Book of Beginnings

The Book of Beginnings
  • Author(s): Sally Page
  • Location(s): London, Highgate
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jo Sorsby is hiding from her past when she agrees to run her uncle’s beloved stationery shop. Glimpsing the lives of her customers between the warm wooden shelves, as they scribble little notes and browse colourful notebooks, distracts her...

The Fraud

The Fraud
  • Author(s): Zadie Smith
  • Location(s): Jamaica, Kilburn, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1873

Kilburn, 1873. The ‘Tichborne Trial’ has captivated the widowed Scottish housekeeper Mrs Eliza Touchet and all of England. Readers are at odds over whether the defendant is who he claims to be – or an imposter. Mrs Touchet is...

The Haunting of Lindy Pennyworth

The Haunting of Lindy Pennyworth
  • Author(s): Sam Pope, Camilla Montemaggi (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Oxford, North London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A psychological horror that will grip you from the first page, and haunt you long after you’ve finished the last. Nobody believes Lindy when she says she doesn’t pull her hair out on purpose. Nobody believes Lindy when she...

The Last Garden in England

The Last Garden in England
  • Author(s): Julia Kelly
  • Location(s): Highbury
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1907, 1944, Present Day

A tale of five women living across three different times (1907, 1944, present day), connected by a special garden at Highbury House estate and the secrets it holds.

The Legacy of Eve

The Legacy of Eve
  • Author(s): Natasha Boydell
  • Location(s): Palmers Green, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present Day

Can she discover the truth about her long-lost mother before becoming a mother herself? A tale of fear and family secrets by the author of The Missing Husband. Annie’s mother, Eve, died in childbirth thirty-five years ago. Despite this...

The Mess We’re In

The Mess We’re In
  • Author(s): Annie Macmanus
  • Location(s): Kilburn, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s onwards

I’m a Londoner now. I’m a voice in the noise. I’m ready. It’s the turn of the millennium and, landing in London with nothing but her CD collection and demo tape, Orla Quinn moves into a squalid Kilburn house...

The Missing Husband

The Missing Husband
  • Author(s): Natasha Boydell
  • Location(s): Muswell Hill, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

How would you cope if your husband disappeared? One woman discovers just that in this bestselling domestic thriller debut. Kate and Pete have been the perfect couple ever since they were teenagers. Fifteen years later they have two young...

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