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Blood Red City

Blood Red City
  • Author(s): Rod Reynolds
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When crusading journalist Lydia Wright is sent a video of an apparent murder on a London train, she thinks she’s found the story to revive her career. But she can’t find a victim, much less the killers, and the...

Bone China

Bone China
  • Author(s): Roma Tearne
  • Location(s): London, Sri Lanka
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

An epic novel of love, loss and a family uprooted, set in the contrasting landscapes of war-torn Sri Lanka and immigrant London. Grace de Silva, wife of the shiftless but charming Aloysius, has five children and a crumbling marriage....

Death in the East

Death in the East
  • Author(s): Abir Mukherjee
  • Location(s): Assam, Kolkata (Calcutta), London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

Calcutta police detective Captain Sam Wyndham and his quick-witted Indian Sergeant, Surrender-not Banerjee, are back for another rip-roaring adventure set in 1920s India. 1905, London. As a young constable, Sam Wyndham is on his usual East London beat when...

Estella’s Revenge

Estella’s Revenge
  • Author(s): Barbara Havelocke
  • Location(s): Kent, London, Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 19th Century

Barbara Copperthwaite writing as Barbara Havelocke You know Miss Havisham. The world’s most famous jilted bride. This is her daughter’s story. Raised in the darkness of Satis House where the clocks never tick, the beautiful Estella is bred to...

Grave Island

Grave Island
  • Author(s): Andrew Smyth
  • Location(s): East Africa, London, Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Mystery

When Philip Hennessey is thrown out of army intelligence after evidence is fabricated against him, his ex-wife’s school friend asks him to investigate the sudden death of her father, who she thinks has been murdered. Philip soon discovers a...

Henry VIII: The Heart and the Crown

Henry VIII: The Heart and the Crown
  • Author(s): Alison Weir
  • Location(s): London, South East England
  • Genre(s): Historical, Biography, Fiction
  • Era(s): First half 16h Century

Six wives. One King. You know their stories. Now it’s time to hear his. The magnificent new Tudor novel from the author of the Sunday Times-bestselling Six Tudor Queens series. — A second son, not born to rule, becomes...

Home Fire

Home Fire
  • Author(s): Kamila Shamsie
  • Location(s): London, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The suspenseful and heartbreaking story of an immigrant family driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequences Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother’s death, she’s accepted...

House on the Bridge: Ten Turbulent Years with Diego Rivera

House on the Bridge: Ten Turbulent Years with Diego Rivera
  • Author(s): Sharon Upp
  • Location(s): London, Paris, Spain
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1910s

This is story of Diego Rivera’s first wife, Angeline Beloff, an artist from pre-revolutionary Russia and her relationship with him in, part set in Belle Époque Paris.

How to Keep Well in Wartime

How to Keep Well in Wartime
  • Author(s): Jody Cooksley
  • Location(s): Norfolk, France, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1915 to 1993

Emily needs friends. Outwardly successful, about to get married, inside she is scared and grieving. When an accident reveals a relative she never knew existed, everything changes. Jim has buried his life in a mundane job at the Ministry...

Keeper

Keeper
  • Author(s): Johana Gustawsson
  • Location(s): Falkenberg, London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1888 and 2015

Whitechapel, 1888: London is bowed under Jack the Ripper’s reign of terror. London 2015: actress Julianne Bell is abducted in a case similar to the terrible Tower Hamlets murders of some ten years earlier, and harking back to the...

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