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The Tulip Virus

The Tulip Virus
  • Author(s): Danielle Hermans
  • Location(s): Alkmaar, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1600s and 2000s

In 2007 in London Frank Schoeller is brutally battered. What does this have to do with a murder in an Alkmaar tavern in 1636? Two separate storylines that interweave beautifully and gives clear insight into the phenomenon of the...

The Tunnel Rats

The Tunnel Rats
  • Author(s): Stephen Leather
  • Location(s): London, South East Asia, Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century

Two murders, thousands of miles apart: one in London, one in Bangkok. The bodies brutally mutilated: an ace of spades impaled upon their chests. In Washington, a US senator receives photographs of the corpses. And realises that his past...

The Unheard

The Unheard
  • Author(s): Nicci French
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

He did kill. Kill and kill and kill.’ Tess’s number one priority has always been her three-year-old daughter Poppy. But splitting up with Poppy’s father Jason means that she cannot always be there to keep her daughter safe. When...

The War of the Worlds

The War of the Worlds
  • Author(s): H G Wells
  • Location(s): England, London, Woking
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): 1890s

2012 Reprint of 1898 Edition. “The War of the Worlds” is a first-person narrative of an unnamed protagonist’s adventures in London and the countryside southwest of London as Earth is invaded by Martians. Written in 1895-1897, it is one...

The Watcher

The Watcher
  • Author(s): Ross Armstrong
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She’s watching you, but who’s watching her? Lily Gullick lives with her husband, Aiden, in a brand-new apartment opposite a building that has been marked for demolition. A keen bird-watcher, she can’t help spying on her neighbors. Until one...

The Woman on the Ledge

The Woman on the Ledge
  • Author(s): Ruth Mancini
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A woman falls to her death from a London bank’s twenty-fifth-floor roof terrace. You’re arrested for her murder. You tell the police that you only met the victim the previous night at your office party. She was threatening to...

This Bleeding City

This Bleeding City
  • Author(s): Alex Preston
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

From humble origins in Scotland, via Univeristy, to the financial capital – London. Charlie Wales. Hedge funds and high octane dealings sustain the thrust of this novel, which in parts shows life behind the financial headlines..the hard egded trading...

Three Brothers

Three Brothers
  • Author(s): Peter Ackroyd
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century

Three Brothers follows the fortunes of Harry, Daniel and Sam Hanway, born on a post-war council estate in Camden Town. Marked out from the start by curious coincidence, each boy is forced to make his own way in the...

Tomorrow’s Past

Tomorrow’s Past
  • Author(s): Emma Dally
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s/40s

London’s Kentish Town in the Thirties and Forties teems with life in every street and alleyway. It is a place where everyone knows everyone else, where lives are interwoven in intricate webs and where feuds are passed down from...

Towards the End of the Morning

Towards the End of the Morning
  • Author(s): Michael Frayn
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

The true Fleet Street life that Frayn describes is long gone, but this book is tremendously evocative of journalism in the 1960s. Dyson is running small columns but yearns for bigger things. Work is carried out late morning and...

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