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The Thinking Tank

The Thinking Tank
  • Author(s): Jae de Wylde
  • Location(s): Costa del Sol, London, Rutland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s/80s and 2004

1970, London, England Sally, dressed in brown visits Father Christmas at a church fair. He rescues her as she trips and stumbles into his arms. As he hoists her onto his lap she thinks she feels the breath of...

the Treatment

the Treatment
  • Author(s): Mo Hayder
  • Location(s): Bath, London
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

A husband and wife are discovered, imprisoned in their own home. Badly dehydrated, they’ve been bound and beaten. He is close to death. But worse is to come: their young son is missing. When Detective Inspector Jack Caffery is...

The Trinity 6

The Trinity 6
  • Author(s): Charles Cumming
  • Location(s): Europe, London, Moscow
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Perfect for fans of John le Carré – the most explosive secret of the Cold War could be exposed: but the bigger the lie, the more ruthlessly it will be protected… Hard-up Russia expert Dr Sam Gaddis finally has...

The Wardrobe Department

The Wardrobe Department
  • Author(s): Elaine Garvey
  • Location(s): County Donegal, The West End
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2002

Mairéad works all hours in a run-down West End theatre’s wardrobe department, her whole existence made up of threads and needles, running errands to mend shoes, fixing broken zips and handwashing underwear. She must also do her best to...

The Wimbledon Poisoner

The Wimbledon Poisoner
  • Author(s): Nigel Williams
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

Henry Farr is forty years old. He is suburban, average, conventional – and desperate to be rid of his wife, Elinor. Inspired by a grisly episode in Wimbledon’s local history, Farr begins to concoct a recipe for the perfect...

The Yard

The Yard
  • Author(s): Alex Grecian
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1880s

A year after Jack the Ripper claimed his last victim, Victorian London is in the grip of a wave of crime and murder, with its citizens no longer able to trust the police to protect them. The newly formed...

This Lovely City

This Lovely City
  • Author(s): Louise Hare
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s/1950s

The drinks are flowing. The music is playing. But the party can’t last. With the Blitz over and London reeling from war, jazz musician Lawrie Matthews has answered England’s call for help. Fresh off the Empire Windrush, he’s taken...

Tin Man

Tin Man
  • Author(s): Sarah Winman
  • Location(s): Oxford, London, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

It begins with a painting won in a raffle: fifteen sunflowers, hung on the wall by a woman who believes that men and boys are capable of beautiful things. And then there are two boys, Ellis and Michael, who...

To Lahore, With Love

To Lahore, With Love
  • Author(s): Hina Belitz
  • Location(s): London, Lahore
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Addy Mayford has always struggled with her identity. Brought up in a household of stories, food and faith by her Irish mother and Pakistani Nana, she feels constantly torn between the two sides of her upbringing. Since the death...

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  • Author(s): Kate Atkinson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s/1950s/1981

In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathisers, she discovers the work to be by...

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