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The Great Escape

The Great Escape
  • Author(s): Fiona Gibson
  • Location(s): Glasgow, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Can any woman ever grab back a piece of her younger self? For one weekend only, Hannah, Sadie and Lou are determined to give it their best shot. Hannah’s getting married… and has serious pre-wedding jitters. She adores Ryan...

The Hit List

The Hit List
  • Author(s): Holly Seddon
  • Location(s): London, Godstone, Hackney
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 2021 (2019/2020)

What would you do if you found your name on a hitlist? And your late husband put it there? When Marianne’s husband Greg is knocked off his bike and killed on the way to work, she must unpick the...

The Light of the Day

The Light of the Day
  • Author(s): Graham Swift
  • Location(s): London

Sarah is in prison. Every fortnight she is visited by George, the private eye she employed to observe the final stage of her husband’s affair. The visits – and the days between – lead George back into Sarah’s past...

The Little Bookshop of Lonely Hearts

The Little Bookshop of Lonely Hearts
  • Author(s): Annie Darling
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Once upon a time in a crumbling London bookshop, Posy Morland spent her life lost in the pages of her favourite romantic novels. So when Bookend’s eccentric owner, Lavinia, dies and leaves the shop to Posy, she must put...

The Montana Stories

The Montana Stories
  • Author(s): Katherine Mansfield
  • Location(s): London, New Zealand (Aotearoa), The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Early 1920s

Eighty years ago, at the end of May 1921, Katherine Mansfield came to Switzerland, to live at the Chalet des Sapins in Montana (now Crans-Montana) in Switzerland. She was 32 and seriously ill with tuberculosis (possibly caught, according to...

The Prime of Ms Dolly Greene

The Prime of Ms Dolly Greene
  • Author(s): E V Harte
  • Location(s): Barnes
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In the heart of South West London, just a short stroll from the Thames, lies an enclosed and overgrown bike path and a single row of cottages. Foremost among Tinderbox Lane’s hotchpotch of loyal residents is professional Tarot reader,...

The Rabbi’s Daughter

The Rabbi’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Reva Mann
  • Location(s): Jerusalem, London
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2000s

The book starts with the early life of the writer growing up in an Orthodox household , her rebellion against her parents, and her subsequent enlightenment when she embraces her faith by marrying her husband, also from the Orthodox...

The Therapist

The Therapist
  • Author(s): B A Paris
  • Location(s): Finsbury Park
  • Genre(s): Noir, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present/ 2018

When Alice and Leo move into a newly renovated house in The Circle, a gated community of exclusive houses, it is everything they’ve dreamed of. But appearances can be deceptive… As Alice is getting to know her neighbours, she discovers a devastating, grisly...

The Three Of Us

The Three Of Us
  • Author(s): Ore Agbaje-Williams
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A nice house, a carefree life, a doting husband, a best friend who never leaves your side. What more could you ask for? There’s just one problem: your husband and best friend love you, but they hate each other....

The Truth About You

The Truth About You
  • Author(s): Susan Lewis
  • Location(s): London, Umbria
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Lainey Hollingsworth is the anchor in her home. In addition to managing her husband’s writing career, she oversees the daily operations of a chaotic family: a rebellious teenage daughter, a stepson who blames her for ruining his life, and...

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