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Offshore

Offshore
  • Author(s): Penelope Fitzgerald
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Novella
  • Era(s): 1961

Offshore possesses perfect, very odd pitch. In just over 130 pages of the wittiest and most melancholy prose, Penelope Fitzgerald illuminates the lives of “creatures neither of firm land nor water”–a group of barge-dwellers in London’s Battersea Reach, circa...

On Hampstead Heath

On Hampstead Heath
  • Author(s): Marika Cobbold
  • Location(s): Hampstead, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Thorn Marsh was raised in a house of whispers, of meaningful glances and half-finished sentences. Now she’s a journalist with a passion for truth, more devoted to her work at the London Journal than she ever was to her...

Once a Monster

Once a Monster
  • Author(s): Robert Dinsdale
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mythology
  • Era(s): 1861

‘A labyrinthine delight of a novel . . . Dickensian darkness is infused with ancient myth. Historical writing at its finest . . . .’ Essie Fox, bestselling author of The Somnambulist and The Fascination London, 1861: Ten-year-old Nell...

Opera

Opera
  • Author(s): Julie Anderson
  • Location(s): London, Westminster
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

TRUTH NEVER DIES It had been solely personal. Not anymore. Determined to put the ghosts of her past to rest, Cassandra Fortune asks a former head of GCHQ for help, only to receive a message from beyond the grave....

Plague

Plague
  • Author(s): Julie Anderson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

There are many ways to die. Plague is just one of them. Work on a London tube line is halted by the discovery of an ancient plague pit and, within it, a very recent corpse. A day later another...

Ragdoll

Ragdoll
  • Author(s): Daniel Cole
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller

Believe the hype. Sold in over 32 countries and counting, RAGDOLL is the standout thriller of the year. A body is discovered with the dismembered parts of six victims stitched together like a puppet, nicknamed by the press as...

Single in the City

Single in the City
  • Author(s): Michele Gorman
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

It’s official. Hannah has left her friends and family in the US behind and is following her dream. To live in London. Unfortunately she’s completely unprepared for what’s in store. She’s going to find: 1. Her dream guy. A...

Sleep When You’re Dead

Sleep When You’re Dead
  • Author(s): Jude O'Reilly
  • Location(s): The Hebrides, London, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In thirty-six hours, thousands of innocent people will die. There’s not a second to waste. And no time for sleep… Michael North has a bullet lodged in his brain which could kill him any second. That makes him the...

Spitalfields Life

Spitalfields Life
  • Author(s): The Gentle Author
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Late 2000s

“I am going to write every single day and tell you about my life here in Spitalfields at the heart of London…” Drawing comparisons with Pepys, Mayhew and Dickens, the gentle author of Spitalfields Life has gained an extraordinary...

Suicide Thursday

Suicide Thursday
  • Author(s): Will Carver
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Eli Hagin can’t finish anything. He hates his job, but can’t seem to quit. He doesn’t want to be with his girlfriend, but doesn’t know how end things with her, either. Eli wants to write a novel, but he’s...

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