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Trinity

Trinity
  • Author(s): Nigel May
  • Location(s): London, Los Angeles, Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Move over Jackie Collins, there’s a new blockbuster star in town.’ New! Magazine ‘An addictive plot that is packed with twists and turns. Prepare for larger than life characters, fabulous locations and plenty of humour.’ The Sun When friends...

Truly, Darkly, Deeply

Truly, Darkly, Deeply
  • Author(s): Victoria Selman
  • Location(s): North London
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980s/early 2000s

12-year-old Sophie and her mother, Amelia-Rose, move to London from Massachusetts where they meet the charismatic Matty Melgren, who quickly becomes an intrinsic part of their lives. But as the relationship between the two adults fractures, a serial killer...

Tuesday’s Gone

Tuesday’s Gone
  • Author(s): Nicci French
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A man’s decomposed body has been found in the flat of Michelle Doyce, a woman trapped in a world of strange mental disorder. The police don’t know who it is, how he got there or what happened – and...

Tunnel Vision

Tunnel Vision
  • Author(s): Keith Lowe
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Andy’s obsession with the London Underground is interfering with his life. On the eve of his wedding, he makes a drunken bet that challenges him to travel through every single Tube station in just one day. Only by completing...

Underground London

Underground London
  • Author(s): Stephen Smith
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Various

History has never been so vivid with the sights and sounds of London gone by echoing in every page, in this subterranean exploration of London’s “tube”.

Vanished

Vanished
  • Author(s): Tim Weaver
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Vanished is the brilliant new missing persons case in the David Raker series by Tim Weaver. No life is perfect. Everyone has secrets. For millions of Londoners, the morning of 17 December is just like any other. But not...

Walking in Pimlico

Walking in Pimlico
  • Author(s): Ann Featherstone
  • Location(s): England, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): Late 1800s

To ‘walk in Pimlico’ is, according to the Penguin Dictionary of Historical Slang, the colloquial expression ‘to be handsomely dressed’.Comedian, clog dancer, comic vocalist, actor and all-round funny fellow Corney Sage is treading the boards at the Constellation in...

Waterline

Waterline
  • Author(s): Ross Raisin
  • Location(s): Glasgow, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

Mick Little used to be a shipbuilder on the Glasgow yards. But as they closed one after another down the river, the search for work took him and his beloved wife Cathy to Australia, and back again, struggling for...

Whatever it Takes

Whatever it Takes
  • Author(s): Adele Parks
  • Location(s): Dartmouth, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Eloise Hamilton is a Londoner born and bred, so it is a momentous day when she reluctantly agrees to uproot to Dartmouth, leaving behind her perfect world so her husband can finally live in his. There are compensations, however....

When London was Capital of America

When London was Capital of America
  • Author(s): Julie Flavell
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 18th Century

Benjamin Franklin secretly loved London more than Philadelphia: it was simply the most exciting place to be in the British Empire. And in the decade before the outbreak of the American Revolution, thousands of his fellow colonists flocked to...

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