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Coronation Year

Coronation Year
  • Author(s): Jennifer Robson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1953

Following the lives of a London hôtelier and some of her guests throughout 1953.

Corpus

Corpus
  • Author(s): Rory Clements
  • Location(s): Cambridge, Kent, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

1936. Europe is in turmoil. The Nazis have marched into the Rhineland. In Russia, Stalin has unleashed his Great Terror. Spain has erupted in civil war. In Berlin, a young Englishwoman evades the Gestapo to deliver vital papers to...

Covent Garden in the Snow

Covent Garden in the Snow
  • Author(s): Jules Wake
  • Location(s): Covent Garden
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Tilly Hunter has fabulous friends, her dream job as a make-up artist with a prestigious opera company and Felix, her kind and caring husband to be. It looks set to be the most perfect Christmas yet! But when a...

Cover Blown

Cover Blown
  • Author(s): Ian Robinson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

Realistic crime fiction set in the unforgiving streets of London An advertising executive is found murdered in her luxury London apartment. DI Nash and DS Moretti quickly exhaust the obvious leads when a near identical killing occurs. Though joined...

Criminal Justice

Criminal Justice
  • Author(s): Ian Robinson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

The first book in a totally gripping hard-boiled crime fiction series Undercover detective Sam Batford is through with police budget cuts and ineffectual superiors. But has he gone rogue? He is sent to work with a serious crime team...

Crossed Skis

Crossed Skis
  • Author(s): Carol Carnac
  • Location(s): Bloomsbury
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1950s

In London’s Bloomsbury, Inspector Julian Rivers of Scotland Yard looks down at a dismal scene. Here is the victim, burnt to a crisp. Here are the clues – clues which point to a good climber and expert skier, and...

Cultivating a Fuji

Cultivating a Fuji
  • Author(s): Miriam Drori
  • Location(s): Bournemouth, Japan, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mostly 1970s

Grace J Reviewerlady: “What a beautiful book! This is a novel I will reflect on time and time again.” Convinced that his imperfect, solitary existence is the best it will ever be, Martin unexpectedly finds himself being sent to...

Curse the Day

Curse the Day
  • Author(s): Jude O'Reilly
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

At a global tech gala hosted at the British Museum, scientist Tobias Hawke is due to unveil an astonishing breakthrough. His AI system appears to have reached consciousness, making Hawke the leading light in his field. But when terrorists...

Dan Knew

Dan Knew
  • Author(s): F J Curlew
  • Location(s): Tallinn, East Lothian, Kyiv, London, Parnu, Portugal, Scotland, Vilnius
  • Genre(s): Biography, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2002 - 2016

A puppy born to the dangers of street life. A woman in trouble. An unbreakable bond. A Ukrainian street dog is rescued from certain death by an expat family. As he travels to new countries with them a darkness...

Dark Dates

Dark Dates
  • Author(s): Tracey Sinclair
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Paranormal
  • Era(s): Contemporary

All Cassandra Bick wants is to be left to get on with doing her job. But when you’re a Sensitive whose business is running a dating agency for vampires, life is never going to be straightforward – especially when...

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