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Bitter Sweet

Bitter Sweet
  • Author(s): Hattie Williams
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘In my life, there are things that have happened to me, and things that I have done, that have proven to be moments that have a clear before and an after. One of those moments, perhaps in some ways...

Black Powder

Black Powder
  • Author(s): Ally Sherrick
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 17th century

A rip-roaring historical adventure set at the time of the Gunpowder Plot – winner of the Historical Association Young Quills Award! England, 1605. 12-year-old Tom must save his father from hanging. He falls in with a mysterious stranger –...

Blood & Sugar

Blood & Sugar
  • Author(s): Laura Shepherd-Robinson
  • Location(s): London, Deptford Dock
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1700s

Blood & Sugar is the thrilling debut historical crime novel from Laura Shepherd-Robinson for fans of C. J. Sansom and Andrew Taylor. June, 1781. An unidentified body hangs upon a hook at Deptford Dock – horribly tortured and branded...

Blood’s Game

Blood’s Game
  • Author(s): Angus Donald
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1670

AFTER THE TUDORS CAME THE STUARTS . . . London, Winter 1670. Holcroft Blood has entered the employ of the Duke of Buckingham, one of the most powerful men in the kingdom after the king. It is here that...

Blood, White and Blue

Blood, White and Blue
  • Author(s): James Silvester
  • Location(s): Prague, London
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Love, deception and murder dominate as thriller writer James Silvester delivers the first in the Lucie Musilova series. Britain is a hotbed of racial tension and economic uncertainty. Only Sir Geoffrey Hartnell, an ageing but hugely respected MP, can...

Bloomsbury Girls

Bloomsbury Girls
  • Author(s): Natalie Jenner
  • Location(s): Bloomsbury
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1950s

One bookshop. Fifty-one rules. Three women who break them all. 1950. Bloomsbury Books on London’s Lamb’s Conduit Street has resisted change for 100 years, run by men and guided by the manager’s unbreakable rules. But after the turmoil of...

Blue Watch

Blue Watch
  • Author(s): John Harvey
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): WW2, 1940s

1940. Along with millions of other London residents 15 year-old Jack Riley is evacuated to the countryside to escape a city threatened by German bombs. Jack manages to escape farm life and return to London where he joins his...

Bookends

Bookends
  • Author(s): Jane Green
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

On the shelf, but still best friends . . . Cath is scatty, messy and guarded. While Si is impossibly tidy, bitchy and desperate for a man of his own. They are total opposites – but equally unlucky in...

Boot Camp Bride

Boot Camp Bride
  • Author(s): Lizzie Lamb
  • Location(s): London, Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Set in Norfolk and Chelsea Take an up-for-anything reporter. Add a world-weary photo-journalist. Put them together . . . light the blue touch paper and stand well back! Posing as a bride-to-be, Charlee Montague goes undercover at a boot...

Boy Parts

Boy Parts
  • Author(s): Eliza Clark
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the streets of Newcastle. Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery,...

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