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- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s/1940s
The Day of the Locust is a novel about Hollywood and its corrupting touch, about the American dream turned into a sun-drenched California nightmare. Nathanael West’s Hollywood is not the glamorous “home of the stars” but a seedy world...
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 1920s
A dark, riveting thriller set in 1920s Hollywood about “the greatest horror movie ever made”, the curse said to surround it, and a deadly search, decades later, for the single copy rumoured still to exist. 1927: Hollywood studio fixer...
- Location(s): Austria, Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, In Translation
- Era(s): 1930s/40s
An artist’s life, a pact with the devil, a novel about the dangerous illusions of the silver screen. G.W. Pabst, one of cinema’s greatest, perhaps the greatest director of his era: when the Nazis seized power he was filming...
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
Outraged by her grandfather’s illicit affair with Empire Pictures’ latest femme fatale, Roxanne Granville forsakes her position as Hollywood royalty and rejects the man who raised her, determined to strike out on her own in McCarthy-era California. Backed by...
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Offered a dream job in Hollywood with a famous director and his actress wife, an insecure woman becomes their personal assistant where their secrets and lies place her in the crosshairs of a murder investigation. Cassidy Foster is heartbroken,...
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
Hollywood, 1937 Hester Carlyle has no wish to look after the pampered offspring of the rich anymore, in spite of being a highly sought-after governess. But with her elderly father frail, and the roof of their rundown cottage in...
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Hollywood loves a dead girl. She’s always so photogenic. Salma Lowe understands better than anyone how Hollywood chews up and spits out starlets. She is the offspring of Hollywood royalty, a former child-star turned guide on a true crime...
- Location(s): Hollywood, Egypt, London, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s and 1930s
1921: a boy, a girl, a moonlit midnight kiss. A terrible, repulsive kiss. Bettina and Bart have grown up as best friends, so surely they will end up together? After all, Bettina is young, rich, headstrong…. and gay. Bart...
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction, Satire
- Era(s): 1940s
Subtitled An Anglo-American Tragedy, Evelyn Waugh’s The Loved One is a witty satirical novel on artistic integrity and the British expat community in Hollywood. The more startling for the economy of its prose and plot, this novel’s story, set...
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
(The Hollywood Thriller Trilogy Book 1) Their rise was meteoric. Only a few years before, they had been three friends from Glasgow, just trying to survive tough lives of danger and dysfunction. But on one Hollywood evening in 1993,...
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