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Killer Affair

Killer Affair
  • Author(s): Rebecca Chance
  • Location(s): London, Sandlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Stunning, charismatic Lexy O’Brien is the reigning queen of British reality TV. Her life in front of the camera is planned and manipulated as successfully as any military assault. But success breeds jealousy. When you’re on top, the only...

Kitchen Venom

Kitchen Venom
  • Author(s): Philip Hensher
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1980s

Winner of a Somerset Maugham Award 1997 A stunning novel of political life, betrayal and passion, which lifts the lid on vice within the Palace of Westminster…and cost Hensher his job as a House of Commons clerk. John is...

Last Voyage of the Valentina

Last Voyage of the Valentina
  • Author(s): Santa Montefiore
  • Location(s): Amalfi Coast, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2 and 1970s

An eccentric aristocrat is savagely murdered in his Italian palazzo at the end of WW2. Twenty years later, this unsolved crime touches the life of Alba, a hedonistic girl who lives on a houseboat in Sixties Chelsea. Between these...

London Calling

London Calling
  • Author(s): James Craig
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1980s, Modern

Can you win an election and cover up murder at the same time? When Inspector John Carlyle finds a body in a luxury London hotel room he begins a journey through the murky world of the British ruling classes...

London Fields

London Fields
  • Author(s): Martin Amis
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

London Noir

London Noir
  • Author(s): Cathi Unsworth
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Late 1900s

A series of short stories under the editorship of Cathi Unsworth, in the noir genre.

London Stories

London Stories
  • Author(s): Jerry White
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

London has the greatest literary tradition of any city in the world. Its roll-call of story-tellers includes cultural giants who changed the way the world thought about writing, like Shakespeare, Defoe and Dickens. But there has also been an...

Losing Nelson

Losing Nelson
  • Author(s): Barry Unsworth
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In the basement of a large Victorian house in London, Charles Cleasby painstakingly re-enacts the great sea battles of his hero, Horatio Nelson. He is also writing a faithful biography of the great man, as a true English hero...

Love’s Hurdles

Love’s Hurdles
  • Author(s): Emma Lee-Potter
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): 2012 (Olympics)

Mimi Carter is the youngest member of the British showjumping team for London 2012. Fiercely competitive and a brilliant rider, she’s desperate to win an Olympic gold medal in front of her home crowd. But as injury threatens and...

Lucy in the Sky

Lucy in the Sky
  • Author(s): Paige Toon
  • Location(s): London, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Lucy is heading back to Australia for her best friend’s wedding when she gets a text from her boyfriend’s phone from someone saying they have just slept with him. She is just about to take off, trapped for many...

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