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The Eater of Flies

The Eater of Flies
  • Author(s): Richard Gadz
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1868

FROM THE WINNER OF THE 2022 NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR BEST HORROR Summer, 1868. London’s West End buzzes with a chaotic blend of affluence and moral decay, a place where high society and underworld meet. A valuable...

The Eleventh Grave

The Eleventh Grave
  • Author(s): Rachel Amphlett
  • Location(s): Vale of White Horse
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Detective Mark Turpin 6 When Detective Mark Turpin is assigned the task of investigating the death of a local businessman, the case is first thought to be one of accidental drowning. Until a bullet hole is found where the...

The Embalmer

The Embalmer
  • Author(s): Alison Belsham
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
  • Era(s): Current day

Has the ancient Egyptian cult of immortality resurfaced in Brighton? When a freshly-mummified body is discovered at the Brighton Museum of Natural History, Detective Francis Sullivan is at a loss to identify the desiccated woman. But as Egyptian burial...

The Emperor’s Babe

The Emperor’s Babe
  • Author(s): Bernardine Evaristo
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 211 AD

A coming-of-age tale to make the muses themselves roar with laughter and weep for pity — sassy, razor-sharp and transformative. Londinium, AD 211. Zuleika is a modern girl living in an ancient world. She’s a back-alley firecracker, a scruffy...

The End Of Summer

The End Of Summer
  • Author(s): Charlotte Philby
  • Location(s): Cape Cod, Languedoc Roussillon, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Your mother is not who you think she is… When the phone rings in Judy McVee’s Languedoc farmhouse, she knows her past has finally caught up with her. It’s her daughter, frantically asking why there are journalists on her...

The End of Us

The End of Us
  • Author(s): Olivia Kiernan
  • Location(s): Wimbledon
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It all started to go wrong the day the Wrights moved in next door Myles and Lana Butler live on a gorgeous new development in Wimbledon, leaning on a mortgage that is just within reach. When one of Myles’...

The End We Start From

The End We Start From
  • Author(s): Megan Hunter
  • Location(s): England, London
  • Genre(s): Future, Cli-fi
  • Era(s): Future

Megan Hunter’s honed and spare prose paints an imagined future as realistic as it is frightening. Though the country is falling apart around them and its people are forced to become refugees, this family’s world – of new life...

The Englishman

The Englishman
  • Author(s): David Gilman
  • Location(s): London, France, The Urals
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Raglan Book 1) Penal Colony No. 74, AKA White Eagle, lies some 600 kilometres north of Yekaterinburg in Russia’s Sverdlovskaya Oblast. Imprisoning the country’s most brutal criminals, it is a winter-ravaged hellhole of death and retribution. And that’s exactly...

The Envoy

The Envoy
  • Author(s): Edward Wilson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Espionage, Suspense
  • Era(s): 1950s

1950s London: the height of the Cold War. Kit Fournier, senior diplomat at the US embassy in Grosvenor Square, is actually CIA bureau chief in London. The Arms Race informs much of the action in this fast-paced page turner...

The Essex Serpent

The Essex Serpent
  • Author(s): Sarah Perry
  • Location(s): Colchester, Essex
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1890s

Let THE ESSEX SERPENT wrap itself around you this summer London 1893. When Cora Seaborne’s husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one,...

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