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Beautiful People

Beautiful People
  • Author(s): Amanda Jennings
  • Location(s): Cornwall, France, London
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

As the champagne flows at a glittering society wedding, one guest isn’t celebrating. It’s been years since Victoria fell in love with Nick and was welcomed into his circle of privileged friends at university. Then life took a darker...

Becoming Abigail

Becoming Abigail
  • Author(s): Chris Abani
  • Location(s): Nigeria, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Tough, spirited, and fiercely independent Abigail is brought as a teenager to London from Nigeria by relatives who attempt to force her into prostitution. She flees, struggling to find herself in the shadow of a strong but dead mother....

Being Simon Haines

Being Simon Haines
  • Author(s): Tom Vaughan MacAulay
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of), London, Naples
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

For a decade he’s been chasing his dream: partnership at the legendary, family-run law firm of Fiennes & Plunkett. The gruelling hours and manic intensity of his job have come close to breaking him, but he has made it...

Being Tommy Boronovski: A London Suspense Thriller

Being Tommy Boronovski: A London Suspense Thriller
  • Author(s): A J Sendall
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Norwich
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2000

When Mike Bray is grabbed off the street on his way home on an ordinary Friday night, his world is turned inside out. Coerced by the head of a South London crime gang to impersonate low-level criminal Tommy Boronovski,...

Belgravia

Belgravia
  • Author(s): Julian Fellowes
  • Location(s): Belgravia
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 19th Century

It is the evening of 15 June 1815, and the Duchess of Richmond has thrown a magnificent ball in Brussels for the Duke of Wellington. The guests include James and Anne Trenchard – who have made their money in...

Beneath the Streets

Beneath the Streets
  • Author(s): Adam Macqueen
  • Location(s): London, Exmoor
  • Genre(s): LGBTQIA+, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1970s

It is February 1976, and the naked corpse of a shockingly underage rent boy is fished out of a pond on Hampstead Heath. Since the police don’t seem to care, twenty-year-old Tommy Wildeblood – himself a former ‘Dilly boy’...

Berlin Game

Berlin Game
  • Author(s): Len Deighton
  • Location(s): Berlin, London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Cold War

Best of Friends

Best of Friends
  • Author(s): Kamila Shamsie
  • Location(s): Karachi, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1988 and present day

A dazzling new novel of friendship, identity and the unknowability of other people – from the international bestselling author of Home Fire, winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction Sometimes it was as though the forty years of friendship...

Betrayed

Betrayed
  • Author(s): N S Brooks
  • Location(s): British Virgin Islands, London, Mallorca, Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A London lawyer is under suspicion from both the police and SO15 for two murders and running a business of supplying arms to terrorists. He cannot trust anyone. He becomes a target, caught between an Eastern European gang of...

Betrayed By The Truth

Betrayed By The Truth
  • Author(s): Daniella Bernett
  • Location(s): London, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An inconvenient alibi…a priceless treasure…an MI6 mole It’s a potent lethal cocktail Journalist Emmeline Kirby and her jewel thief/insurance investigator husband Gregory Longdon become targets after a desperate stranger asks them to deliver a fortune in rare red diamonds...

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