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The Proposal

The Proposal
  • Author(s): Tasmina Perry
  • Location(s): London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern and 1950s

Just say yes to this unforgettable read and take a spellbinding, romantic journey from the dazzling days of the debutantes in 1950s London to glamorous modern Manhattan. When Amy Carrell’s wealthy boyfriend ends their relationship just before Christmas, she’s...

The Quietness

The Quietness
  • Author(s): Alison Rattle
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Young Adult

When fifteen-year-old Queenie escapes from the squalid slums of nineteenth-century London, she has no idea about the dangers of the dark world she is about to become embroiled in. Initially thrilled at being taken on as a maid for...

The Rembrandt Secret

The Rembrandt Secret
  • Author(s): Alex Connor
  • Location(s): London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1500s and Modern

A serial killer keeping the past’s darkest secret hidden. A centuries-old conspiracy is about to explode into the present with devastating consequences. The first victim was forced to swallow stones. The second was whipped to death. The third was...

The Repentent Morning

The Repentent Morning
  • Author(s): Chris Paling
  • Location(s): Barcelona, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

Fitzrovia, Soho in London, 1930s. Meredith Kerr is spending another evening of inebriation with three men. Harry Bowden, billy boyle and Arthur Lawler all want her for themselves. But Meredith has forgotten how to understand what it is she...

The Road to Urbino

The Road to Urbino
  • Author(s): Roma Tearne
  • Location(s): London, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Tuscany
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A story of obsession, love and art set in Tuscany, Sri Lanka and London. Ras, a Sri Lankan who fled his country as a child following the violent death of his mother and his father’s disappearance, has committed a...

The Saffron Kitchen

The Saffron Kitchen
  • Author(s): Yasmin Crowther
  • Location(s): Iran, London, Mazareh
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 1900s onwards

come. Richmond Hill in London is a far cry from where Maryam Mazar was born and raised, the little village of Mazareh in Iran, but this affluent suburb is where she has lived for more than forty years. She...

The Saint Zita Society

The Saint Zita Society
  • Author(s): Ruth Rendell
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Ruth Rendell’s Saint Zita Society is formed by disgruntled servants working in salubrious Belgravia. Not all are unhappy with their lot, for there are Dickensian below-stairs exploiters as well as thoughtless bankers and aristocrats in the grand apartments above,...

The Secret River

The Secret River
  • Author(s): Kate Grenville
  • Location(s): London, New South Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1800s

First book in a Trilogy about early Australia (The Lieutenant and Sarah Thornhill).It is set in the early nineteenth century, on what was then the frontier: the Hawkesbury River, fifty miles beyond Sydney. The story begins in London in...

The Shadow Lines

The Shadow Lines
  • Author(s): Amitav Ghosh
  • Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta), London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s to 1990s

A wide-eyed boy growing up in suburban Calcutta in the 1960s experiences the world through the eyes of others – an intoxicating older cousin, a grandmother who weaves stories from the past and a family in London whose lives...

The Shell Seekers

The Shell Seekers
  • Author(s): Rosamunde Pilcher
  • Location(s): Cornwall, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Artist’s daughter Penelope Keeling can look back on a full and varied life: a Bohemian childhood in London and Cornwall, an unhappy wartime marriage, and the one man she truly loved. She has brought up three children – and...

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