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Comfort and Joy

Comfort and Joy
  • Author(s): India Knight
  • Location(s): London, Marrakech
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2009-2011

It’s two days before Christmas and wife and mother of two, Clara Dunphy, has finally finished her last-minute shopping on Oxford Street. On a whim she decides to treat herself to a champagne cocktail at the Connaught hotel, where...

Consider Yourself Kissed

Consider Yourself Kissed
  • Author(s): Jessica Stanley
  • Location(s): Darwin, Hackney, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary (2017-23)

What’s the grown-up meaning of ‘happily ever after’? When she first meets Adam, Coralie is new to London and feeling adrift. But Adam is clever, witty, and (he insists) a quarter of an inch taller than the average British...

Constance

Constance
  • Author(s): Rosie Thomas
  • Location(s): Bali, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Connie Thorne was a foundling, a child left by her mother for strangers to find. Forty years on, without ever being able to discover her true identity, she has put all her energy into creating a flawless shell for...

Daisy

Daisy
  • Author(s): J P Henderson
  • Location(s): London, California
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

MEET DAISY. A PICTURE OF GRACE AND DIGNITY. MEET HEROD. A… DISAPPOINTMENT. Written in his own words, and guided by a man who collects glasses in a local pub, this is the story of Herod ‘Rod’ Pinkney’s search for...

Dark Truth (Joe Wilde #2)

Dark Truth (Joe Wilde #2)
  • Author(s): C D Steele
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Dark Truth’, the second in a series of three novels, is a suspenseful mystery thriller full of intrigue that will leave you guessing right until the very end. Private investigator Joe Wilde is hired by Tom and Marie Archer...

Dear Mrs Bird

Dear Mrs Bird
  • Author(s): A J Pearce
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

London, 1941. Emmeline Lake and her best friend Bunty are trying to stay cheerful despite the Luftwaffe making life thoroughly annoying for everyone. Emmy dreams of becoming a Lady War Correspondent and when she spots a job advertisement in...

Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend

Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend
  • Author(s): Jenny Colgan
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

A student flat on the Old Kent Road (look it up on the Monopoly Board if you aren’t familiar with it!). Sophie Chesterton is a girl about town – she knows all the right people, goes to all the...

Distant Music

Distant Music
  • Author(s): Lee Langley
  • Location(s): London, Madeira
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1420s-2000s

Distant Music comprises four different stories, spanning from the 15th to the 21st centuries. The book starts out in Madeira in 1429, with the backdrop of Portugal as a marine empire, Christopher Columbus features briefly, anti-Semitism is a recurring...

Eden’s Garden

Eden’s Garden
  • Author(s): Juliet Greenwood
  • Location(s): Cornwall, Devon, London, Snowdonia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1900s, Modern

2011 Carys agrees, with mixed feelings, to look after her mother after a fall. This decision unsettles everything – her job, her plans, her relationship with Jack. Once home she is drawn back into village life, into her family history...

Every Time We Say Goodbye

Every Time We Say Goodbye
  • Author(s): Natalie Jenner
  • Location(s): Italy, London, Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1950s

WELCOME TO LA DOLCE VITA OF 1950s ROME Vivien Lowry’s latest play has opened to a rapturous reception from audiences in London’s West End. However, the critics’ savage reviews soon call into question her entire career. So, when the...

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