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The Various Flavours of Coffee

The Various Flavours of Coffee
  • Author(s): Anthony Capella
  • Location(s): Eritrea, Ethiopia, London, North Africa
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1890s

It is 1895. Robert Wallis, would-be poet, bohemian and impoverished dandy, accepts a commission from coffee merchant Samuel Pinker to categorise the different tastes of coffee – and encounters Pinker’s free-thinking daughters, Philomenia, Ada and Emily. As romance blossoms...

Tideline

Tideline
  • Author(s): Penny Hancock
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

One winter’s afternoon, voice coach Sonia opens the door of her beautiful riverside home at Greenwich, London, to fifteen-year-old Jez, the nephew of a family friend. He’s come to borrow some music. Sonia invites him in and soon decides...

Walk the Lines

Walk the Lines
  • Author(s): Mark Mason
  • Location(s): London
  • Era(s): Modern

The only way to truly discover a city, they say, is on foot. Taking this to extremes, Mark Mason sets out to walk the entire length of the London Underground – overground – passing every station on the way....

The Girl on the Train

The Girl on the Train
  • Author(s): Paula Hawkins
  • Location(s): London, The Home Counties
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She’s even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one...

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
  • Author(s): Xiaolu Guo
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 2000s

A young Chinese woman comes to London to learn English, and learns about love, men, Europe and living amongst the British. She falls for a quasi hippie and the fact it is written in a stilted English adds to...

A Conspiracy of Friends

A Conspiracy of Friends
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The third novel in the London-based Corduroy Mansions series from Alexander McCall Smith, comparable in warmth and humour to 44 Scotland Street

A Conspiracy of Paper

A Conspiracy of Paper
  • Author(s): David Liss
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 18th Century

Benjamin Weaver, a Jew and an ex-boxer, is an outsider in eighteenth-century London, tracking down debtors and felons for aristocratic clients. The son of a wealthy stock trader, he lives estranged from his family-until he is asked to investigate...

A Ghost Among Us

A Ghost Among Us
  • Author(s): Debora ElizaBeth Hill
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Three young women rent a lovely house in Hampstead but discover that they have a “lodger” who is Sir Jerome Kennington, who was murdered. They embark on the quest to help him find his murderer, thereby releasing his soul....

A Mysterious Affair of Style (Evadne Mount 2)

A Mysterious Affair of Style (Evadne Mount 2)
  • Author(s): Gilbert Adair
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1940s

London 1946. An actress is murdered, not just on camera but in full view of a crowded film set. Only six people had an opportunity to administer the poison yet not one of them had a conceivable motive. As...

A Poisoned Season

A Poisoned Season
  • Author(s): Tasha Alexander
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): Mid 1800s

This mystery is about the descendants of the French monarchy: items are being stolen from the legacy of Marie Antoinette: Emily is receiving anonymous poems written in Greek: David Francis has been murdered….

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