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Girls With a Voice (6 Chelsea Walk)

Girls With a Voice (6 Chelsea Walk)
  • Author(s): Ann Turnbull
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1764, 18th century

Mary Ann’s greatest wish is to become an opera singer, and she’s thrilled when the famous child prodigy Mozart comes to perform in Chelsea. But through a sudden twist of fate, Mary Ann is told that she must leave...

Girls with Courage (6 Chelsea Walk)

Girls with Courage (6 Chelsea Walk)
  • Author(s): Adèle Geras
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Victorian Era, 1857

Lizzie loves plants, and her biggest wish is to be a gardener, a bold choice for a Victorian girl. When her strict stepfather sends her to stay with relatives in London, Lizzie misses her country garden and struggles with...

Hampstead Fever

Hampstead Fever
  • Author(s): Carol Cooper
  • Location(s): Hampstead
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): present day

A heatwave brings emotions to boiling point… It is high summer in London and trouble is brewing. Chef Dan should be blissfully happy. He has the woman of his dreams and a job in a trendy Hampstead bistro. But...

Happiness

Happiness
  • Author(s): Aminatta Forna
  • Location(s): South London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

LONGLISTED FOR JHALAK PRIZE 2019 Waterloo Bridge, London. Two strangers collide. Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist, and Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes. From this chance encounter in the midst of the rush of a great city,...

Hearts and Minds

Hearts and Minds
  • Author(s): Amanda Craig
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Opening with the murder of a woman, several characters’ lives come together in this book, in which Amanda Craig portrays the comfortable lifestyle enjoyed by many in affluent North London, where this novel is largely set. These Londoners could...

Hell Bent on Murder #1

Hell Bent on Murder #1
  • Author(s): Robert James Bridge
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
  • Era(s): Present Time

As I poured myself what was to be the last drop of Scotch in the bottle, I sat back in my chair, watching the pictures the neon lights up on the wall of the office. I reached for my...

Her Heart for a Compass

Her Heart for a Compass
  • Author(s): Sarah Ferguson Duchess of York
  • Location(s): Ireland, London, New York City (NYC), Scotland, United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1860s/70s

London 1865 In an attempt to rebel against a society where women are expected to conform, free-spirited Lady Margaret Montagu Scott flees her confines and an arranged marriage. But Lady Margaret’s parents, the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, as...

Her Hidden Genius

Her Hidden Genius
  • Author(s): Marie Benedict
  • Location(s): Paris, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

Rosalind Franklin has always been an outsider–brilliant, but different. Whether working at the laboratory she adored in Paris or toiling at a university in London, she feels closest to the science, those unchanging laws of physics and chemistry that...

Her Last Summer

Her Last Summer
  • Author(s): Emily Freud
  • Location(s): Thailand, London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

No body. No crime? Twenty years ago, Mari vanished while backpacking through Thailand with her boyfriend, Luke. He was accused of murder, but has always insisted he’s innocent. Besides, her body was never found. Now, he’s finally ready to...

Hidden in Plain Sight

Hidden in Plain Sight
  • Author(s): Jeffrey Archer
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Hidden in Plain Sight is the second brilliant and captivating novel featuring William Warwick by the master storyteller and bestselling author of the Clifton Chronicles, Jeffrey Archer. Newly promoted, Detective Sergeant William Warwick has been reassigned to the drugs...

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