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Sweetness in the Belly

Sweetness in the Belly
  • Author(s): Camilla Gibb
  • Location(s): Harar, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s onward

In Thatcher’s London, Lilly, a white Muslim nurse, struggles in a state of invisible exile. As Ethiopian refugees gradually fill the flats of the housing estate where she lives, Lilly tentatively begins to share with them her longing for...

Ten Things I’ve learnt about love

Ten Things I’ve learnt about love
  • Author(s): Sarah Butler
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Alice has just returned to London from months of travelling abroad. She is late to hear the news that her father is dying, and arrives at the family home only just in time to say goodbye. Daniel hasn’t had...

The Amount of Evil

The Amount of Evil
  • Author(s): Mark Yarwood
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Influential businessmen are being slaughtered across London; each victim is given a local anaesthetic before witnessing his own body being cut to pieces. The decapitated head is then stuck on a pole as warning that revenge is being reaped....

The Audacity Of Sara Grayson

The Audacity Of Sara Grayson
  • Author(s): Joani Elliott
  • Location(s): Maryland, London, Maine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What happens when your mother’s dying wish becomes your worst nightmare? What happens when the world’s greatest literary icon dies before she finishes the final book in her best-selling series? And what happens when she leaves that book in...

The Ballad of Peckham Rye

The Ballad of Peckham Rye
  • Author(s): Muriel Spark
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

A man of devilish charm and enterprising spirit, Dougal Douglas is employed to revitalize the ailing firm of Meadows, Meade & Grindley. He succeeds, but not quite in the way his employer intended. Strange things begin to happen as...

The Blackheath Seance Parlour

The Blackheath Seance Parlour
  • Author(s): Alan Williams
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Horror
  • Era(s): 1842

In 1842, two sisters drunkenly debate their future, their family chocolate business has failed and so they decide to open a seance parlour. The locals are shocked but soon their shop is crammed with people wanting to contact the...

The Book of Summers

The Book of Summers
  • Author(s): Emylia Hall
  • Location(s): Devon, Hungary, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1980s onwards

Beth Lowe has been sent a parcel. Inside is a letter informing her that her long-estranged mother has died, and a scrapbook Beth has never seen before. Entitled The Book of Summers, it’s stuffed with photographs and mementos complied...

The Business of Dying

The Business of Dying
  • Author(s): Simon Kernick
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

DS Dennis Milne kills three innocent people, initiating an investigation. A few hours later Milne is on the streets again investigating the death of a woman found by Regent’s Canal. As his investigation grows, he discovers a level of...

The Butcher’s Hook

The Butcher’s Hook
  • Author(s): Janet Ellis
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1760s

Georgian London, in the summer of 1763. At nineteen, Anne Jaccob is awakened to the possibility of joy when she meets Fub, the butcher’s apprentice, and begins to imagine a life of passion with him. The only daughter of...

The Camomile Lawn

The Camomile Lawn
  • Author(s): Mary Wesley
  • Location(s): Cornwall, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1930s

Behind the large house, the fragrant camomile lawn stretches down to the Cornish cliffs. Here, in the dizzying heat of August 1939, five cousins have gathered at their aunt’s house for their annual ritual of a holiday. For most...

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