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An Ocean Apart

An Ocean Apart
  • Author(s): Sarah Lee
  • Location(s): Caribbean, Hertfordshire, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 19502

It’s 1954 and, in Barbados, Ruby Haynes spots an advertisement for young women to train as nurses for the new National Health Service in Great Britain. Her sister, Connie, takes some persuading, but soon the sisters are on their...

Apartment 16

Apartment 16
  • Author(s): Adam Nevill
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Horror
  • Era(s): Modern

Some doors are better left closed . . . In Barrington House, an upmarket block in London, there is an empty apartment. No one goes in, no one comes out. And it’s been that way for fifty years. Until...

Behind Closed Doors

Behind Closed Doors
  • Author(s): B A Paris
  • Location(s): Surrey, Bangkok, London
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and wealth, she has charm and elegance. You might not want to like them, but you do. You’d like to get to know Grace better. But it’s difficult,...

Blackheath

Blackheath
  • Author(s): Adam Baron
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Blackheath is a groundbreaking and sharply comic tale of life after children, revealing the awful truth at the heart of modern family life: love is not enough. Amelia has everything: two perfect children, a successful husband who loves her, and...

Breakfast at Wimbledon

Breakfast at Wimbledon
  • Author(s): Jack M Bickham
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980s/90s

Brad Smith is to face McEnroe at Wimbledon. He has orders from the CIA to keep an eye on Irish terrorism and keep tennis safe. Set amidst the social whirl of Wimbledon fortnight, he pairs up with a pretty...

Brick Lane

Brick Lane
  • Author(s): Monica Ali
  • Location(s): London

With its gritty Tower Hamlets setting, this sharply observed contemporary novel about the life of an Asian immigrant girl deals cogently with issues of love, cultural difference and the human spirit.

Burning Bright

Burning Bright
  • Author(s): Helen Dunmore
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Nadine, a sixteen-year-old runaway new to London, is set up in a decaying Georgian house by her Finnish lover, Kai. Slowly, she begins to suspect that Kai’s plans for her have little to do with love. ‘Be careful,’ warns...

Dancing on Thorns

Dancing on Thorns
  • Author(s): Rebecca Horsfall
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

It briefly starts out in Paris but the main location is London. Ballet and theatre – even if you are not a great fan – this is a terrific book, with a tremendous cast of characters.

Death of a Bookseller

Death of a Bookseller
  • Author(s): Alice Slater
  • Location(s): Walthamstow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2019

Roach – bookseller, loner and true crime obsessive – is not interested in making friends. She has all the company she needs in her serial killer books, murder podcasts and her pet snail, Bleep. That is, until Laura joins...

Eleven

Eleven
  • Author(s): Mark Watson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

This is the story of radio DJ Xavier Ireland, who by night offers words of wisdom to sleepless Londoners and by day keeps himself to himself. That is, until a one-of-a-kind encounter forces him to confront his own biggest...

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