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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...

The Shot

The Shot
  • Author(s): Sarah Sultoon
  • Location(s): Central Asia, London, Middle East
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Early 21st Century

An act of mercy Or the ultimate betrayal… Who decides? Samira is an up-and-coming TV journalist, working the nightshift at a major news channel and yearning for greater things. So when she’s offered a trip to the Middle East,...

The Soho Murder

The Soho Murder
  • Author(s): Mike Hollow
  • Location(s): Soho (London), The City of London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1940

December, 1940. The area around St Paul’s Cathedral suffers a devastating air raid and the heart of British book publishing burns to the ground. Detective Inspector John Jago must break bad news to a woman sitting in the ruins...

The Somnambulist

The Somnambulist
  • Author(s): Essie Fox
  • Location(s): Heredfordshire, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1800s

‘Some secrets are better left buried…’ When seventeen-year-old Phoebe Turner visits Wilton’s Music Hall to watch her Aunt Cissy performing on stage, she risks the wrath of her mother Maud who marches with the Hallelujah Army, campaigning for all...

The Strange Michael Folmer Affair

The Strange Michael Folmer Affair
  • Author(s): John Rigbey
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern and Various

Following the murder of a prostitute in London’s East End Detective Chief Inspector Mike Gregory of New Scotland Yard is deputed to investigate what seems to be the emergence of a crazed killer bent on emulating the crimes of...

The Streets

The Streets
  • Author(s): Anthony Quinn
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1800s

In 1882, David Wildeblood, a 21-year-old from rural Norfolk, arrives in London to start work at the offices of a famous man. As an ‘inspector’ for Henry Marchmont’s hugely successful weekly The Labouring Classes of London, his job is...

The Sultan’s Wife

The Sultan’s Wife
  • Author(s): Jane Johnson
  • Location(s): London, Morocco
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1677

The year is 1677. Behind the magnificent walls and towering arches of the Palace of Meknes, captive chieftain’s son and now a lowly scribe, Nus Nus is framed for murder. As he attempts to evade punishment for the bloody...

The Swimming Pool

The Swimming Pool
  • Author(s): Louise Candlish
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Suspense
  • Era(s): 2015

It’s summer when fictional Elm Hill lido, in South London, opens, having stood empty for years. For Natalie Steele – wife, mother, teacher – it offers freedom from the tightly controlled routines of work and family. Especially when it...

The Swimming-Pool Library

The Swimming-Pool Library
  • Author(s): Alan Hollinghurst
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

Young, gay, William Beckwith spends his time, and his trust fund, idly cruising London for erotic encounters. When he saves the life of an elderly man in a public convenience an unlikely job opportunity presents itself – the man,...

The Switch

The Switch
  • Author(s): Beth O'Leary
  • Location(s): London, Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Leena is too young to feel stuck. Eileen is too old to start over. Maybe it’s time for The Switch… Ordered to take a two-month sabbatical after blowing a big presentation at work, Leena escapes to her grandmother Eileen’s...

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