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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....

Judge Savage

Judge Savage
  • Author(s): Tim Parks
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Promoted young to the position of Crown Court Judge – because of his ability, but perhaps also for certain questions of political convenience – it’s time for Daniel Savage to settle down. Perhaps his marriage is happy enough after...

Julia

Julia
  • Author(s): Sandra Newman
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1984

London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceania. It’s 1984 and Julia Worthing works as a mechanic fixing the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. Under the ideology of...

Julia’s Story – Book 1 of the Belleville family series

Julia’s Story – Book 1 of the Belleville family series
  • Author(s): J Mary Masters
  • Location(s): Brisbane, Derbyshire, London, Long Island
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

Set against the backdrop of the Second World War, this is the heartbreaking story of a young girl in love, the secret she must never reveal and the family who betrayed her trust. It’s 1942 and the world is...

Just Kill

Just Kill
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural, Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

London during a blistering heatwave. A man wakes in the middle of the night, hearing noises from downstairs. He assumes it’s a burglar – nothing prepares him for what he finds. Across the city, DI Leah Hutch and DS...

Just Like You

Just Like You
  • Author(s): Nick Hornby
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

The person you are with is just like you: same background, same age, same interests. The perfect match. And it is a disaster. Then, when and where you least expect it, you meet someone new. You seem to have...

Katharine’s Wish

Katharine’s Wish
  • Author(s): Linda Lappin
  • Location(s): Fontainebleau, Italy, London, Switzerland, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

In her new novel, Linda Lappin (author of THE ETRUSCAN) explores the final years in the life of short story writer and literary figure, Katherine Mansfield, focusing on her relationships with Ida Baker and John Middleton Murry against the...

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