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The Care and Management Of Lies

The Care and Management Of Lies
  • Author(s): Jacqueline Winspear
  • Location(s): Kent, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW1

By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since girlhood, have become strained – by Thea’s passionate embrace of women’s suffrage, and by the imminent marriage of Kezia to Thea’s brother, Tom, who runs the...

The Castaways

The Castaways
  • Author(s): Lucy Clarke
  • Location(s): Fiji, South London
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

t should be like any other holiday. Beautiful beaches. Golden sunsets. Nothing for miles. You’ll never want to leave. Until you can’t… Gripping, twisty and full of sun-soaked atmosphere, THE CASTAWAYS will whisk you far away to the island...

The Closer I Get

The Closer I Get
  • Author(s): Paul Burston
  • Location(s): South London, Hastings
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

’An intense, tightly calibrated thriller’ Huffington Post Tom is a successful author, but he’s struggling to finish his novel. His main distraction is an online admirer, Evie, who simply won’t leave him alone. Evie is smart, well read and...

The Collaborator

The Collaborator
  • Author(s): Gerald Seymour
  • Location(s): London, Naples
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Deadlier than the Mafia, the Camorra never forget, and never forgive. She is an Italian accountancy student in London, and her boyfriend Eddie teaches at a language school. But the prime reason Immacolata Borelli came to Britain was to...

The Colour of Memory

The Colour of Memory
  • Author(s): Geoff Dyer
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

‘In the race to be first in describing the lost generation of the 1980s, Geoff Dyer in THE COLOUR OF MEMORY leads past the winning post. “We’re not lost” one of his hero’s friend’s says, “we’re virtually extinct”. It...

The Commuter

The Commuter
  • Author(s): Emma Curtis
  • Location(s): London, West London
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Rachel wakes from a coma to discover her controlling husband has been killed, and the police suspect her of involvement. But all Rachel can recall from the last few weeks are tantalising flashes of a fellow commuter. A man...

The Crimson Petal and the White

The Crimson Petal and the White
  • Author(s): Michael Faber
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Although it’s billed as “the first great 19th-century novel of the 21st century,” The Crimson Petal and the White is anything but Victorian. It’s the story of a well-read London prostitute named Sugar, who spends her free hours composing...

The Darkening Hour

The Darkening Hour
  • Author(s): Penny Hancock
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The tense and darkly atmospheric new psychological thriller from the author of Richard & Judy Bookclub pick Tideline A middle class woman at her wits’ end. A struggling migrant worker with few options for survival. When tensions boil over,...

The Daughter

The Daughter
  • Author(s): Liz Webb
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

I lean in and whisper the question I have never let myself utter in twenty-three years – ‘Dad…did you murder Mum?’ Hannah Davidson has a dementia-stricken father, an estranged TV star brother, and a mother whose death opened up hidden...

The Devil’s Company

The Devil’s Company
  • Author(s): David Liss
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1722

The year is 1722. Ruffian for hire and master of disguise Benjamin Weaver finds himself pitted against a mysterious mastermind who holds the lives of Weaver’s friends in the balance. To protect the people he loves, Weaver must stage...

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