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A Short History of London

A Short History of London
  • Author(s): Simon Jenkins
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

LONDON: a settlement founded by the Romans, occupied by the Saxons, conquered by the Danes and ruled by the Normans. This changeful place became a medieval maze of alleys and courtyards, later to be chequered with grand estates of...

A Single Thread of Moonlight

A Single Thread of Moonlight
  • Author(s): Laura Wood
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Edwardian Era

With shades of Pride and Prejudice and The Count of Monte Cristo, Laura Wood has penned a Cinderella story for the Bridgerton generation. Iris Grey’s childhood was idyllic… until her father remarried. Iris’s new stepmother and two stepsisters were...

A Snowfall of Silver

A Snowfall of Silver
  • Author(s): Laura Wood
  • Location(s): Cornwall, London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1931

A snow-dusted love story. In the Autumn of 1931, eighteen-year-old Freya Trevelyan runs away from her home in Cornwall to follow her dream of becoming an actress. When she is invited to join a theatrical company about to head...

A Song of Isolation

A Song of Isolation
  • Author(s): Michael J Malone
  • Location(s): Bordeaux, London, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Film star Amelie Hart is the darling of the silver screen, appearing on the front pages of every newspaper. But at the peak of her fame she throws it all away for a regular guy with an ordinary job....

A Stranger City

A Stranger City
  • Author(s): Linda Grant
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a dead body is found in the Thames, caught in the chains of HMS Belfast, it begins a search for a missing woman and confirms a sense that in London a person can become invisible once outside their...

A Study in Scarlet

A Study in Scarlet
  • Author(s): Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1870s

The theft of the Agna treasure in India forms a catalyst for treachery, deceit and murder. From his lodgings in Baker Street Holmes and Watson forge their working relationship in this, the first of the Sherlock Holmes series.

A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities
  • Author(s): Charles Dickens
  • Location(s): London, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1770s/80s

A Thing of the Moment

A Thing of the Moment
  • Author(s): Bruno Noble
  • Location(s): Tokyo, London, Oxford
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s to 1990s

A novel written from the points of view of three women with the subject, besides telling the stories of how they grow up and meet, the nature of the self, or of identity. It takes its title from Straw...

A Violent Heart

A Violent Heart
  • Author(s): David Fennell
  • Location(s): North London
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Elena Zoric is murdered, her body concealed beside a stream in North London. Her phone lies nearby, the last number dialled was to the woman who had rescued her from sex trafficking: Metropolitan Police Detective Inspector Grace Archer. Archer...

A Walk in the Park

A Walk in the Park
  • Author(s): Natalie Kleinman
  • Location(s): Greenwich
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ever since she was a teenager, twenty-nine-year-old Daisy Shepherd has been thrilled to be able to walk dogs for a living. And with a supportive mother and stepfather, she thinks she has everything she needs. But when her birth...

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