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Ardent Justice

Ardent Justice
  • Author(s): Peter Taylor-Gooby
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Present Day

Ade is a tax-inspector. She believes the money she raises pays for a decent NHS and adequate public services. She hates the City of London, the endless corruption, the bland assumption that tax is for the little people. She...

Arrowood

Arrowood
  • Author(s): Mick Finlay
  • Location(s): Southwark, Lambeth
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1890s

London society takes its problems to Sherlock Holmes. Everyone else goes to Arrowood. “Gangsters, pornographers, drunks and Fenian terrorists abound in this Victorian noir detective novel, which crackles with energy and wit.” The Times (of London) – Top 100...

Ashes of the Amazon

Ashes of the Amazon
  • Author(s): Milton Hatoum
  • Location(s): Berlin, Brazil, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Mundo is a rebel – the embittered offshoot of a rich family, whose artistic vocation clashes with his father’s dynastic plans. Ashes of the Amazon charts his determined flight from the fraught centre of his family’s wealth – the...

At Bertram’s Hotel

At Bertram’s Hotel
  • Author(s): Agatha Christie
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1950s

When Miss Marple comes up from the countryside for a holiday in London, she finds what she’s looking for at Bertram’s Hotel: traditional decor, impeccable service and an unmistakable atmosphere of danger behind the highly polished veneer.

At Freddie’s

At Freddie’s
  • Author(s): Penelope Fitzgerald
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

From the Booker Prize-winner of ‘Offshore’ comes this entertaining tale of a chaotic stage school and its singular headmistress. It is the 1960s, in London’s West End, and Freddie is the formidable proprietress of the Temple Stage School. Of...

At the Stroke of Nine O’Clock

At the Stroke of Nine O’Clock
  • Author(s): Jane Davis
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Post-war 1949 - 1950s

London 1949. The lives of three very different women are about to collide. ‘This is the first time I have come across this author, and what a revelation! She writes stunning prose that keeps the pages turning.’ Historical Novel...

At Your Door

At Your Door
  • Author(s): J. P. Carter
  • Location(s): London, Barnes
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When DCI Anna Tate is called to the gruesome discovery of a dead woman found on Barnes Common, she is plunged into a high‐profile investigation involving a prominent MP. London is baying for blood – but is there more...

August

August
  • Author(s): Gerard Woodward
  • Location(s): London, Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Ever since Aldous Jones careened over the handlebars of his bicycle in 1955 and landed next to Farmer Evans’s first field, it has become a tradition for him to take his family camping in Wales. Aldous has started to...

Barnabas Tew and the Case of the Missing Scarab

Barnabas Tew and the Case of the Missing Scarab
  • Author(s): Columbkill Noonan
  • Location(s): Egypt, London
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Victorian, Ancient Egypt

In “Barnabas Tew and The Case of the Missing Scarab” two well-intentioned but somewhat ineffective detectives, Barnabas and Wilfred, find themselves snatched from their comfortable, if unremarkable, lives in Victorian London to solve a case that threatens all of...

Baron’s Court, All Change (Beats Bums and Bohemians)

Baron’s Court, All Change (Beats Bums and Bohemians)
  • Author(s): Terry Taylor
  • Location(s): Baron's Court, Soho (London)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Baron’s Court, All Change is the Holy Grail of Beatnik novels. Terry Taylor’s only published book, unavailable for decades, documents one summer in the life of the unnamed sixteen-year-old narrator. He leaves his suburban home and boring job as...

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