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The New Woman

The New Woman
  • Author(s): Charity Norman
  • Location(s): London, Oxfordshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

*A Radio 2 Book Club choice for Summer 2015* What would you do if you found out that your husband, your father, your son – was not who you thought? Could you ever love him again? Luke Livingstone is...

The Night Ferry

The Night Ferry
  • Author(s): Michael Robotham
  • Location(s): Amsterdam, London, The English Channel
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Alisha Barba’s dreams of being a detective were shattered when a murder suspect broke her back across a brick wall. Now on her feet again, with her police career in limbo, she receives a message from an old school...

The Occasional Virgin

The Occasional Virgin
  • Author(s): Hanan al-Shaykh
  • Location(s): Italian Riviera, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Huda and Yvonne are on holiday in the Italian Riviera, enjoying the sun and the sparkling Mediterranean, reminiscent of their childhoods in Lebanon. Yvonne doesn’t know what she’s doing wrong, either there or back in London where she runs...

The Other Family

The Other Family
  • Author(s): Joanna Trollope
  • Location(s): London, Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Richie leaves his first wife and child (without going through the process of divorce) and goes off to live with another woman,and with her he fathers three daughters. His untimely death reveals the legal ramifications of his actions, and...

The Other Passenger

The Other Passenger
  • Author(s): Louise Candlish
  • Location(s): London, East London
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2019

You’re feeling pretty smug about your commute to work by riverboat. No more traffic gridlock or getting stuck on the tube in tunnels (you’re claustrophobic). Now you’ve got fresh air, an iconic Thames view, a whole lifestyle upgrade. You’ve...

The Pact

The Pact
  • Author(s): Dawn Goodwin
  • Location(s): Teddington
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

“I’ll kill yours, if you kill mine.” Maddie’s life has come crashing down around her. Her husband has left her and moved on with a new woman and baby. No longer can she run from the past that’s been...

The Paying Guests

The Paying Guests
  • Author(s): Sarah Waters
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa, a large silent house now bereft of brothers, husband and even servants,...

The Penny Heart

The Penny Heart
  • Author(s): Martine Bailey
  • Location(s): Australia, Calderdale, London, New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th century

Sentenced to death for a simple confidence trick, Mary Jebb escapes the gallows … but her reprieve is harsh: seven years in the unforgiving penal colony of Botany Bay. Yet Mary is determined not to be forgotten, sending two...

The Pleasure Seekers

The Pleasure Seekers
  • Author(s): Tishani Doshi
  • Location(s): Chennai (Madras), London
  • Era(s): 1960s onwards

August, 1968: Babo Patel arrives in London from Madras, with curly hair, jhill mill teeth and dreams of becoming a success. When he meets the beautiful, auburn-haired Siân Jones, he falls in love instantly. She, like him, is in...

The Power Behind the Throne

The Power Behind the Throne
  • Author(s): S K Nicoll
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

In the year of HRH The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee comes a fiercely controversial story that exposes evil at the heart of the British establishment. Three of the UK’s most powerful men will stop at nothing to protect the monarchy,...

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