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Insider
  • Author(s): Owen Mullen
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present Day

Someone’s playing both sides and now they have a score to settle… When the family business is crime, you can never be sure who to trust. And when three of their businesses are hit in one night, the notorious...

Instructions for a Heatwave

Instructions for a Heatwave
  • Author(s): Maggie O'Farrell
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1976

It’s July 1976. In London, it hasn’t rained for months, gardens are filled with aphids, water comes from a standpipe, and Robert Riordan tells his wife Gretta that he’s going round the corner to buy a newspaper. He doesn’t...

Into The Unknown

Into The Unknown
  • Author(s): Lorna Peel
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): World War Two

London on 3 September 1939 is in upheaval. War is inevitable. Into this turmoil steps Kate Sheridan, newly arrived from Ireland to live with her aunt and uncle and look for work. When she meets Flight Lieutenant Charlie Butler...

into the wreck

into the wreck
  • Author(s): Susannah Dickey
  • Location(s): Belfast, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

How do you mourn someone you never really knew? Three siblings – Anna, Gemma and Matthew – will have to work that out quickly. Monday is the day of their gentle, but distant, father’s funeral, and for the first...

Invisible Girl

Invisible Girl
  • Author(s): Lisa Jewell
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

LONDON: On a fine avenue of grand houses, big cars and electronic gates, lies a neglected urban wasteland. It is nearly midnight, and very cold. Yet in this dark place of long grass and tall trees where cats hunt...

is this love?

is this love?
  • Author(s): C E Riley
  • Location(s): Hackney
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 2010s

J’s wife has left, and J is trying to understand why. How could someone you loved so much, who claimed to love you once, just walk away? How could they send divorce papers accusing you of terrible things, when...

It Came From Neverland

It Came From Neverland
  • Author(s): Cynthia Pelayo
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Mythology, Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

Peter Pan meets Stephen King’s It in this twisted horror retelling of a classic childhood fairy tale set during WWI. 1914, Wendy Darling works by day as a school teacher, and by night, she assists soldiers who have returned...

It Could Have Been Her

It Could Have Been Her
  • Author(s): Lisa Jewell
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It was the night she almost died. Jane Trevally, newly divorced and feeling a little lost, agrees to accompany a man she doesn’t know to his house in the darkest corner of Hampstead Heath. She’s offered a drink, goes...

It’s Who We Are

It’s Who We Are
  • Author(s): Christine Webber
  • Location(s): East Anglia, Ireland, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): October 2016 - June 2017

Five friends in their fifties find themselves dealing with unforeseen upheaval as they uncover long-hidden and devastating family secrets. Meanwhile, the world around them seems to be spinning out of control. This is a novel about friendship, kindness and...

Jack Dawkins

Jack Dawkins
  • Author(s): Charlton Daines
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Victorian

Jack Dawkins, once known as the Artful Dodger in the streets of London, was sent to Australia on a prison ship when he was little more than a boy. Now he has returned to find that London has changed...

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