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The House of Mirrors

The House of Mirrors
  • Author(s): Erin Kelly
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Gothic
  • Era(s): 1990s onwards

One of them has killed before. One of them will kill again. In the sweltering summer of 1997, straight-laced, straight-A student Karen met Biba – a bohemian and impossibly glamorous aspiring actress. A few months later, two people were...

The House of One Hundred Clocks

The House of One Hundred Clocks
  • Author(s): A M Howell
  • Location(s): Cambridge
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 20th century

JUNE, 1905. Helena and her parrot, Orbit, are swept off to Cambridge when her father is appointed clock-winder to one of the wealthiest men in England. There is only one rule: the clocks must never stop. But Helena discovers...

The House on Hawthorn Road

The House on Hawthorn Road
  • Author(s): Megan Wynne
  • Location(s): Dublin, London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1950, Present Day

Two centuries, two children, one house Beth didn’t want to move to Dublin – she misses her old life and her friends back in London. New home and new school is hard enough, but to make matters worse someone...

The House Swap

The House Swap
  • Author(s): Miranda Rijks
  • Location(s): England, France
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Current Day

Two perfect families. Two beautiful homes. A one-way trip to hell. When two families organise a house swap, it seems like the perfect holiday arrangement. The Browns will exchange their London townhouse for a stunning chateau in the south...

The House With No Rooms

The House With No Rooms
  • Author(s): Lesley Thomson
  • Location(s): Kew, London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary and 1976

KEW: The summer of 1976 was the hottest in living memory. In the Botanical Gardens at Kew, a lost little girl, dizzied by the heat, thought she saw a woman lying dead on the ground. But when she opened...

The Housekeeper’s Secret

The Housekeeper’s Secret
  • Author(s): Iona Grey
  • Location(s): Northern England, North East France
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1911, WW1

Duty, desire, and deception reside under one roof. Standing in the remote windswept moors of Northern England, Coldwell Hall is the perfect place to hide. For the past five years, Kate Furniss has maintained her professional mask so carefully...

The Hunters

The Hunters
  • Author(s): Peter Hill
  • Location(s): Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s

It is 1975 and there are no sophisticated aids to help shrewd and earthy Chief-Superintendent Staunton of Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad and his amorous young assistant, Detective Inspector Wyndsor when they arrive in a time-warped East Anglian village in...

The Husband’s Secret

The Husband’s Secret
  • Author(s): Liane Moriarty
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

At the heart of The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty is a letter that’s not meant to be read . . . Mother of three and wife of John-Paul, Cecilia discovers an old envelope in the attic. Written in...

The Husbands

The Husbands
  • Author(s): Holly Gramazio
  • Location(s): London, West Norwood
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Modern

Lauren’s attic, she slowly realises, is creating an endless supply of husbands for her. There’s the one who pretends to play music on her toes. The one who’s too hot (there must be a catch). The one who makes...

The Hypocrite

The Hypocrite
  • Author(s): Jo Hamya
  • Location(s): Aeolian Islands, London, Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2010 / 2020

What happens when we stop idolising the generations above us? Stop idolising our own parents? What happens when we become frightened of the generations below us? Frightened of our own children? The Aeolian islands, 2010. Sophia, on the cusp...

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