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City Secrets: London

City Secrets: London
  • Author(s): Tim Adams, Robert Kahn
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Something a little different. From the Publisher’s Blog: Take a car or a cab to Elizabeth Street in Belgravia, where you will ?nd a lot of what you need to nourish body and soul. At Jeroboams, pick up some...

Clara and Olivia

Clara and Olivia
  • Author(s): Lucy Ashe
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

Sadler’s Wells, 1933. Disciplined and dedicated, Olivia is the perfect ballerina. But no matter how hard she works, she can never match identical twin Clara’s charm. As rehearsals intensify for the ballet Coppélia, the girls feel increasingly like they...

Clean Point

Clean Point
  • Author(s): Meg Jones
  • Location(s): Wimbledon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Scottie Sinclair is a cheat. Or at least, that’s what the world thinks. After all, who would believe her own father secretly drugged her? The tabloids have called ‘Game, Set, Match’ on Scottie’s career–but an offer at redemption, and...

Cocktails and Dreams

Cocktails and Dreams
  • Author(s): A L Michael
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): 21st Century

A heart-warming novel with characters you’ll love, don’t miss this first in a new series for romance, laugh-out-loud comedy and a feel-good ending. Perfect for fans of Mhairi McFarlane and Lindsey Kelk. I was seven years old when I...

Cogheart (The Cogheart Adventures #1)

Cogheart (The Cogheart Adventures #1)
  • Author(s): Peter Bunzl
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Victorian Era

Lily’s life is in mortal peril. Her father is missing and now silver-eyed men stalk her through the shadows. What could they want from her? With her friends – Robert, the clockmaker’s son, and Malkin, her mechanical fox –...

Cold Blood

Cold Blood
  • Author(s): Robert Bryndza
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The suitcase was badly rusted, and took Erika several attempts, but it yielded and sagged open as she unzipped it. Nothing could prepare her for what she would find inside… When a battered suitcase containing the dismembered body of...

Come Join Our Disease

Come Join Our Disease
  • Author(s): Sam Byers
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the author of Perfidious Albion, a darkly comic and profoundly affecting novel about resistance, radicalism and redemption. Maya is homeless and living on an illegal encampment in London. The site is razed and Maya is detained, but then...

Coming to England: An Inspiring True Story Celebrating the Windrush Generation

Coming to England: An Inspiring True Story Celebrating the Windrush Generation
  • Author(s): Floella Benjamin, Diane Ewen (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Caribbean, London, Trinidad and Tobago
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

A story about the triumph of hope, love, and determination, Coming to England is the inspiring true story of Baroness Floella Benjamin: from Trinidad, to London as part of the Windrush generation, to the House of Lords. Follow ten-year-old...

Confusion (Cazalet Chronicles Book 3)

Confusion (Cazalet Chronicles Book 3)
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Jane Howard
  • Location(s): London, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1942

London and Sussex, 1942. The English family in turmoil . . .   The long, dark days of struggle provide the poignant background to the third book of the Cazalet Chronicles. As the war enters its fourth year, chaos...

Cords of the Grave: A Jack Sargent mystery.

Cords of the Grave: A Jack Sargent mystery.
  • Author(s): J.Ewins and L.Telfer
  • Location(s): London, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical
  • Era(s): June 1973

Together with the medical skills of Ann Black, Jack Sargent investigates death and gets further insight into the levels of organised crime from London to Sussex in June 1873. Two momentous events affect Jack’s work, health and love life...

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