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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...

Maestra

Maestra
  • Author(s): L S Hilton
  • Location(s): Geneva, London, Paris, Rome, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Erotica, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

By day, Judith Rashleigh is a put-upon assistant at a London auction house. By night she’s a hostess in one of the capital’s unsavoury bars. Desperate to make something of herself, Judith knows she has to play the game....

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