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High Fidelity

High Fidelity
  • Author(s): Nick Hornby
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Perhaps a “guy” novel, it tells of life through the wounded eyes of Rob and his ending relationship with Laura: she is a solicitor, he “only” runs a record store. The first pages are worth the read alone, beautifully...

High Rise Mystery

High Rise Mystery
  • Author(s): Sharna Jackson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

The detective duo everyone is dying to meet! Summer in London is hot, the hottest on record, and there’s been a murder in THE TRI: the high-rise home to resident know-it-alls, Nik and Norva. Who better to solve the...

High-Rise

High-Rise
  • Author(s): J G Ballard
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on “enemy” floors. In this visionary tale, human society slips into violent reverse as once-peaceful residents, driven...

Hingston’s Box

Hingston’s Box
  • Author(s): Decima Blake
  • Location(s): Devon, London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2011-2012

Since investigating the disappearance of fifteen-year-old twin boys, Hingston – a young, talented Detective Sergeant, has been tormented by night terrors. On waking, he remembers a vast, golden meadow that glows with warmth and carries the sound of rapid...

Hingston: Smoke and Mispers

Hingston: Smoke and Mispers
  • Author(s): Decima Blake
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2012

As the first door on the Advent calendar is opened, DS Hingston attempts to save the life of a teenager in a crowded London café, but ultimately fails. Seventeen-year-old Leanna Snow chokes to death. Days later, a girl from...

His at Night

His at Night
  • Author(s): Sherry Thomas
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1890s (late 19th century)

Elissande Edgerton is a desperate woman, a virtual prisoner in the home of her tyrannical uncle. Only through marriage can she claim the freedom she craves. But how to catch the perfect man? Lord Vere is used to baiting...

His Dark Sun

His Dark Sun
  • Author(s): Jude Brown
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Cli-fi
  • Era(s): 2022

London, 2022. The heat is rising and things are reaching boiling point. As the world struggles to catch up to its new climate, nineteen-year-old Luke Spargo believes hes the only one who understands whats really happening to the sun...

Hold

Hold
  • Author(s): Michael Donkor
  • Location(s): Ghana, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Moving between Ghana and London, Hold is an intimate, powerful coming-of-age novel. It’s a story of friendship and family, shame and forgiveness; of learning what we should cling to, and when we need to let go. ‘You have to...

Holding On

Holding On
  • Author(s): Mervyn Jones
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1880s-1960s

This is the story of a street in London’s docklands and of a family who lived in it. The street was built in the 1880s, and the Wheelright family (originally dockers) lived there until its tragic demolition in the...

Home Stretch

Home Stretch
  • Author(s): Graham Norton
  • Location(s): Ireland, Liverpool, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1987 onwards

Shame and longing can flow through generations, but the secrets of the heart will not be buried for ever. It is 1987 and a small Irish community is preparing for a wedding. The day before the ceremony a group...

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