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Twelve Secrets

Twelve Secrets
  • Author(s): Robert Gold
  • Location(s): Putney
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ben Harper’s life changed forever the day his older brother Nick was murdered by two classmates. It was a crime that shocked the nation and catapulted Ben’s family and their idyllic hometown, Haddley, into the spotlight. Twenty years on,...

Under the Net

Under the Net
  • Author(s): Iris Murdoch
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Jake is mid 30s, a specialist translator of French to English. He relies on his social group for upkeep a lot of the time, the romantic’s life of poverty. Life always seems to work out in the end and...

Waiting for Wednesday (Frieda Klein 3)

Waiting for Wednesday (Frieda Klein 3)
  • Author(s): Nicci French
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Ruth Lennox, beloved mother of three, is found by her daughter in a pool of her own blood. Who would want to murder an ordinary housewife? And why? Psychotherapist Frieda Klein finds she has an unusually personal connection with...

Went to London, Took the Dog

Went to London, Took the Dog
  • Author(s): Nina Stibbe
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2022/23

Twenty years after leaving London, Nina Stibbe is back in town with her dog, Peggy. Together they take up lodging in the house of writer Deborah (Debby) Moggach in Camden for ‘a year-long sabbatical’. It’s a break from married...

West End Girls

West End Girls
  • Author(s): Barbara Tate
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1940s,

Barbara Tate was 17 when she heard the whispered word that would change her life: Soho. It would take four years for Barbara to escape her loveless home but when she finally made it to the forbidden streets of...

When Nights were Cold

When Nights were Cold
  • Author(s): Susanna Jones
  • Location(s): London, Swiss Alps, Wales
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): early 1900s onwards

The story of Grace Farringdon, who looks back on her life on the eve of the anniversary of the death of her friends. Growing up in early 1900’s Dulwich (South East London), Grace longs to escape her dreary life....

Where Have You Been?

Where Have You Been?
  • Author(s): Joseph O'Connor
  • Location(s): Dublin, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern and 19th Century

Ranging from urgently contemporary London and Dublin to New York’s Lower East Side in the nineteenth century, from dark comedy to poignancy, from the wryly provocative to the quietly beautiful, these stories offer a gathering of dreamers and lost...

Yours is Mine

Yours is Mine
  • Author(s): Amy Bird
  • Location(s): Kielder, London, The North East (England)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Kate, is mourning her Father’s death. She agrees to an identity exchange, seemingly as part of a PhD study, and another girl moves to Kielder in Northumberland. Beware Anna, is all that can be said!

Never Coming Home

Never Coming Home
  • Author(s): Evonne Wareham
  • Location(s): Italy, London, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

All she has left is hope. When Kaz Elmore is told her five-year-old daughter Jamie has died in a car crash, she struggles to accept that she’ll never see her little girl again. Then a stranger comes into her...

The Villa Girls

The Villa Girls
  • Author(s): Nicky Pellegrino
  • Location(s): Italy, London, Mallorca
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

THE VILLA GIRLS is the story of four young women who decide that wherever they are in the world and whatever they’re doing they’ll meet every few years for a holiday together somewhere sunny. Despite life taking them in...

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