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The Curious Life of Elizabeth Blackwell

The Curious Life of Elizabeth Blackwell
  • Author(s): Pamela Holmes
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1700 - 1740

An engrossing historical saga based on the life of the eighteenth-century woman who endured loss and betrayal—and dared to pursue her dreams. Her parents warned Elizabeth that Alexander Blackwell would not make a dependable husband, and only after eloping...

Summer in Your Eyes

Summer in Your Eyes
  • Author(s): Chris Penhall
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): current

Sometimes life’s greatest adventures are found closest to home . . . Travel writer Holly Merriweather knows a fresh start is just what she needs to get her life back on track. Breaking up with her childhood sweetheart and...

The Detective

The Detective
  • Author(s): Ajay Chowdhury
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller

HAS SOMEONE GOT AWAY WITH MURDER? On the verge of a four-billion-dollar deal, a tech entrepreneur from Shoreditch is found dead in a construction site, which leads to the discovery of three skeletons over a hundred years old. But...

The Shot

The Shot
  • Author(s): Sarah Sultoon
  • Location(s): Central Asia, London, Middle East
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Early 21st Century

An act of mercy Or the ultimate betrayal… Who decides? Samira is an up-and-coming TV journalist, working the nightshift at a major news channel and yearning for greater things. So when she’s offered a trip to the Middle East,...

Wild Card

Wild Card
  • Author(s): Judy Murray
  • Location(s): Wimbledon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s never too late to follow your dreams… Twenty years ago, Abigail Patterson put her promising tennis career on hold to have her baby son, Robbie. But after a wild card entry to Wimbledon, she suddenly finds herself swept...

The Waiter

The Waiter
  • Author(s): Ajay Chowdhury
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Detective Kamil Rahman 1 Disgraced detective Kamil Rahman moves from Kolkata to London to start afresh as a waiter in an Indian restaurant. But the peace of his new life is soon shattered. The day Kamil caters an extravagant...

Terra Nova

Terra Nova
  • Author(s): Henriette Lazaridis Power
  • Location(s): Antarctica, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

The year is 1910, and two Antarctic explorers, Watts and Heywoud, are racing to the South Pole.  Back in London, Viola, a photo-journalist, harbors love for them both.  In Terra Nova, Henriette Lazaridis seamlessly ushers the reader back and forth between...

Murder At Abbeymead Farm (Flora Steele #6)

Murder At Abbeymead Farm (Flora Steele #6)
  • Author(s): Merryn Allingham
  • Location(s): Brighton, London, Sussex Downs
  • Genre(s): Cosy Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): 1957

Amateur detective duo Flora Steele and Jack Carrington have gained a reputation for crime-solving. But will they be able to untangle the latest baffling murder in the cosy village of Abbeymead? Sussex, 1957: When Flora and Jack hear that...

All Her Secrets

All Her Secrets
  • Author(s): Jane Shemilt
  • Location(s): London, Paxos
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2003 and 2023

PAXOS, GREECE 2003 A young girl meets two boys on the beach one hot summer night. Her life will never be the same again. LONDON, ENGLAND 2023 Julia is the perfect spouse, mother, cook, cleaner and speech writer to...

The Seventh Son

The Seventh Son
  • Author(s): Sebastian Faulks
  • Location(s): London, New York City (NYC), Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING When a young American academic Talissa Adam offers to carry another woman’s child, she has no idea of the life-changing consequences. Behind the doors of the Parn Institute, a billionaire...

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