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Siege

Siege
  • Author(s): Simon Kernick
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modner

London is under attack. People are dead. Many more lives hang in the balance as a group of highly trained gunmen storm the historic Stanhope Hotel on Park Lane. The gunmen have given the government just five hours to...

Soho

Soho
  • Author(s): Keith Waterhouse
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

No London neighbourhood more resembles the restless downstream tide of the Thames than the ragged square mile of Soho, and into this human rabbit warren one evening slips Alex Singer, a student from Leeds in pursuit of his errant...

Sorrow and Bliss

Sorrow and Bliss
  • Author(s): Meg Mason
  • Location(s): London, Oxford
  • Era(s): Modern

Everyone tells Martha Friel she is clever and beautiful, a brilliant writer who has been loved every day of her adult life by one man, her husband Patrick. A gift, her mother once said, not everybody gets. So why...

Spring

Spring
  • Author(s): David Szalay
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Canadian-born David Szalay won both the Betty Trask and Geoffrey Faber prizes for his debut, London & the South-East. In Spring, his third novel, he analyses the relationship between two youngish Londoners – James, who is ready for love,...

Tell Me No Lies

Tell Me No Lies
  • Author(s): Lisa Hall
  • Location(s): Blackheath
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): 2010s

Don’t. Trust. Anyone. It was supposed to be a fresh start. A chance to forget the past and embrace the future. But can you ever really start again? Or does the past follow you wherever you go? Steph and...

The Affair

The Affair
  • Author(s): Santa Montefiore
  • Location(s): London, South Africa
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Happily married with two small children and a circle of devoted friends, Angelica knows she should be grateful. But then she meets a charismatic South African who flirts with her and makes her feel beautiful. What starts as a...

The Bed I Made

The Bed I Made
  • Author(s): Lucie Whitehouse
  • Location(s): Isle of Wight, London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

I haven’t given up on you and I’m not going to. It’s time to stop playing hard to get now. When Kate meets a dark, enigmatic man in a Soho bar, she doesn’t hesitate long before going home with...

The Black Dress

The Black Dress
  • Author(s): Deborah Moggach
  • Location(s): Muswell Hill
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Pru’s husband has walked out, leaving her alone to contemplate her future. She’s missing not so much him, but the life they once had – picnicking on the beach with small children, laughing together, nestling up like spoons in...

The Bullet Trick

The Bullet Trick
  • Author(s): Louise Welsh
  • Location(s): Berlin, Glasgow, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction

The protagonist here is a Glaswegian conjurer who has seen better days. Those who know their literature of the Gothic (and Louise Welsh is certainly of that number!) will no doubt spot that the author has christened her anti-hero...

The Case of the Fool

The Case of the Fool
  • Author(s): E V Harte
  • Location(s): Barnes
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Conteporary

The Tarot talks . . . but is anyone listening? Returning home from a holiday, Tarot reader Dolly Greene learns that much has changed on her street. Squatters have taken over at No.7 Tinderbox Lane, and a mysterious Brazilian...

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