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The House by the Thames

The House by the Thames
  • Author(s): Gillian Tindall
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Various

LAvish, historical book, based on the inhabitants over the centuries of this little house near the Millenium Bridge. Meticulously researched.

The Italian Wedding

The Italian Wedding
  • Author(s): Nicky Pellegrino
  • Location(s): London, Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance

Pieta Martinelli’s sister is getting married. Since she is a bridal designer it falls to her to make the wedding gown. But Pieta is distracted by a series of unanswered questions. Why is her father feuding with another Italian...

The Jackal’s Share

The Jackal’s Share
  • Author(s): Chris Morgan Jones
  • Location(s): Dubai, Italy, London, Marrakech
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): MOdern

Boundless wealth hides the deepest secrets . . . When a charismatic billionaire asks Ben Webster to investigate his personal affairs it isn’t long before the private spy is convinced that there is something very wrong with his new...

The Journal of Dora Damage

The Journal of Dora Damage
  • Author(s): Belinda Starling
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1850s

London, 1859. By the time Dora Damage discovers that her husband Peter has arthritis in his hands, it is too late – their book-binding business is in huge debt and the family is on the brink of entering the...

The Keys to the Street

The Keys to the Street
  • Author(s): Ruth Rendell
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1990s

Regents Park forms the background to a series of murders of homeless people whom Mary Jago has befriended, and enmesh her in a an unexpected way. Another terrific murder mystery from Ruth Rendell

The Kind Worth Killing

The Kind Worth Killing
  • Author(s): Peter Swanson
  • Location(s): Boston, London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Hello there.’ I looked at the pale, freckled hand on the back of the empty bar seat next to me in the business class lounge of Heathrow airport, then up into the stranger’s face. ‘Do I know you?’ Delayed...

The Little House By The Sea

The Little House By The Sea
  • Author(s): Tracy Rees
  • Location(s): South Wales, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Bluebells bob in the salty sea wind and the cottage gate swings open to reveal the inky-blue cove. It’s exactly how Kitty always pictured it… except in her head, she wasn’t standing here alone. Kitty Roberts spends her days...

The Little Red Chairs

The Little Red Chairs
  • Author(s): Edna O'Brien
  • Location(s): Balkans, Ireland, London, The Hague (Den Haag)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s and 2000s

When a man who calls himself a faith healer arrives in a small, west-coast Irish village, the community is soon under the spell of this charismatic stranger from the Balkans. One woman in particular, Fidelma McBride, becomes enthralled in...

The London Bookshop Affair

The London Bookshop Affair
  • Author(s): Louise Fein
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1962 / 1942

A Novel of the Cold War Two courageous women. One astonishing secret. A world on the brink of war. London, 1962: The world is teetering on the brink of nuclear war but life must go on. Celia Duchesne longs...

The Man Who Saw Everything

The Man Who Saw Everything
  • Author(s): Deborah Levy
  • Location(s): London, Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1988 & 2016

In 1989, Saul is hit by a car on the Abbey Road crossing. He is fine; he gets up and goes to see his girlfriend, Jennifer. They have sex and then break up. He leaves for the GDR, where...

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