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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...

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 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...

Jack the Ripper: Case Closed

Jack the Ripper: Case Closed
  • Author(s): Gyles Brandreth
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1890s

London. 1894. ‘I am not a detective, chief constable.’ ‘No, but you are a poet, a freemason and a man of the world. All useful qualifications for the business in hand.’ So says Police Chief Macnaghten to Oscar Wilde,...

Jane Austen Lives Again

Jane Austen Lives Again
  • Author(s): Jane Odiwe
  • Location(s): Devon, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

When Jane Austen’s doctor discovers the secret to immortal life in 1817, she thinks her wishes have come true. But, a penniless Miss Austen finds herself in 1925 having to become a governess to five girls of an eccentric...

Joe Country

Joe Country
  • Author(s): Mick Herron
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

SHORTLISTED FOR THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER ‘Mick Herron is fast becoming the go-to author for British espionage, and the sixth novel in his Slough House series, Joe Country,...

John Diamond

John Diamond
  • Author(s): Leon Garfield
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Victorian era

‘My father, that stern and upright man, was nothing but a swindler and a thief!’ What is the matter with old Mr Jones? Endless footsteps and low groans can be heard from his room in the dead of night....

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