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My Story: Blitz

My Story: Blitz
  • Author(s): Vince Cross
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

A book about Edie and her family during the London Blitz in 1940-1941.It gives accounts of the dangers and what life really was like in London during the Blitz.

Offshore

Offshore
  • Author(s): Penelope Fitzgerald
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Novella
  • Era(s): 1961

Offshore possesses perfect, very odd pitch. In just over 130 pages of the wittiest and most melancholy prose, Penelope Fitzgerald illuminates the lives of “creatures neither of firm land nor water”–a group of barge-dwellers in London’s Battersea Reach, circa...

On Hampstead Heath

On Hampstead Heath
  • Author(s): Marika Cobbold
  • Location(s): Hampstead, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Thorn Marsh was raised in a house of whispers, of meaningful glances and half-finished sentences. Now she’s a journalist with a passion for truth, more devoted to her work at the London Journal than she ever was to her...

Opera

Opera
  • Author(s): Julie Anderson
  • Location(s): London, Westminster
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

TRUTH NEVER DIES It had been solely personal. Not anymore. Determined to put the ghosts of her past to rest, Cassandra Fortune asks a former head of GCHQ for help, only to receive a message from beyond the grave....

Rivers of London

Rivers of London
  • Author(s): Ben Aaronovitch
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

My name is Peter Grant and until January I was just probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Service (and as the Filth to everybody else). My only concerns...

Run to the Blue

Run to the Blue
  • Author(s): P N Johnson
  • Location(s): London, Paxos
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): Present

“Breaking News! Top TV reporter Tess Anderson is missing…she was last seen in the Greek Islands with a mysterious American yachtsman…more follows!” It was supposed to be the best day of her career, the day when she was the...

Sleep When You’re Dead

Sleep When You’re Dead
  • Author(s): Jude O'Reilly
  • Location(s): The Hebrides, London, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In thirty-six hours, thousands of innocent people will die. There’s not a second to waste. And no time for sleep… Michael North has a bullet lodged in his brain which could kill him any second. That makes him the...

Spitalfields Life

Spitalfields Life
  • Author(s): The Gentle Author
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Late 2000s

“I am going to write every single day and tell you about my life here in Spitalfields at the heart of London…” Drawing comparisons with Pepys, Mayhew and Dickens, the gentle author of Spitalfields Life has gained an extraordinary...

Still Life

Still Life
  • Author(s): Sarah Winman
  • Location(s): Tuscany, East London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

1944, in the ruined wine cellar of a Tuscan villa, as bombs fall around them, two strangers meet and share an extraordinary evening. Ulysses Temper is a young British soldier, Evelyn Skinner is a sexagenarian art historian and possible...

Suicide Thursday

Suicide Thursday
  • Author(s): Will Carver
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Eli Hagin can’t finish anything. He hates his job, but can’t seem to quit. He doesn’t want to be with his girlfriend, but doesn’t know how end things with her, either. Eli wants to write a novel, but he’s...

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