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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...

Katie in London

Katie in London
  • Author(s): James Mayhew
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Modern

Discover the most famous and popular sights in London with classic picture book character, Katie. When Katie and her brother, Jack, visit London with Grandma, at first it seems it’s full of big buses, big buildings and bigger crowds,...

Keeping My Sisters’ Secrets

Keeping My Sisters’ Secrets
  • Author(s): Beezy Marsh
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): WW2

Born into a close-knit working class family in the slums of London’s Waterloo, Eva, Peggy and Kathleen are three remarkably different, but very loving sisters. Desperate to escape their violent father, they find different ways to survive. Beautiful Kathleen...

Keeping the House

Keeping the House
  • Author(s): Tice Cin
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Turkish variety are prized for their enlarged leaf bud; that’s where we put the heroin . . . Ayla has a plan. There’s a stash of heroin; just waiting to be imported. No one seems sure what to...

Kehinde

Kehinde
  • Author(s): Buchi Emecheta
  • Location(s): Nigeria, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Kehinde is a Nigerian woman, unsure of herself, not quite certain she has the right to be happy. With her husband, Albert, she has made a home in London, and has a promising career when Albert decides they should...

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