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Mr Loverman

Mr Loverman
  • Author(s): Bernardine Evaristo
  • Location(s): Hackney, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s onwards

Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he’s lived in Hackney since the sixties. A flamboyant, wise-cracking local character with a dapper taste in retro suits and a fondness for quoting...

My Only Child

My Only Child
  • Author(s): Sam Vickery
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

There he is, my baby boy. His eyes are closed, his tiny rosebud mouth is pursed in sleep. My eyes well up as I catch a whiff of his newborn skin and I swallow back a wave of emotion....

No Place to Hide

No Place to Hide
  • Author(s): J S Monroe
  • Location(s): Cambridge, Cornwall, Maze Hill
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary and 1998

You might be paranoid, but that doesn’t mean they’re not watching you. Adam lives a picture-perfect life: happy marriage, two young children, and a flourishing career as a doctor. But Adam also lives with a secret. Hospital CCTV, strangers’...

Offshore

Offshore
  • Author(s): Penelope Fitzgerald
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Novella
  • Era(s): 1961

Offshore possesses perfect, very odd pitch. In just over 130 pages of the wittiest and most melancholy prose, Penelope Fitzgerald illuminates the lives of “creatures neither of firm land nor water”–a group of barge-dwellers in London’s Battersea Reach, circa...

Old Girls Behaving Badly

Old Girls Behaving Badly
  • Author(s): Kate Galley
  • Location(s): London, North Norfolk, The Chilterns
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Gina Knight is looking forward to the prospect of retirement with her husband of forty-three years. Until, to her surprise, said husband decides he needs to ‘find himself’ – alone – and disappears to Santa Fe, leaving a Dear...

On Hampstead Heath

On Hampstead Heath
  • Author(s): Marika Cobbold
  • Location(s): Hampstead, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Thorn Marsh was raised in a house of whispers, of meaningful glances and half-finished sentences. Now she’s a journalist with a passion for truth, more devoted to her work at the London Journal than she ever was to her...

On The Greenwich Line

On The Greenwich Line
  • Author(s): Shady Lewis, Katharine Halls (Translator)
  • Location(s): East London, South London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In a run-down East London housing office, migrants and frustrated local government employees cross paths and try to work out what the latest policy means for them. As a favour to a friend, one man finds himself roped into...

Once a Monster

Once a Monster
  • Author(s): Robert Dinsdale
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mythology
  • Era(s): 1861

‘A labyrinthine delight of a novel . . . Dickensian darkness is infused with ancient myth. Historical writing at its finest . . . .’ Essie Fox, bestselling author of The Somnambulist and The Fascination London, 1861: Ten-year-old Nell...

Opera

Opera
  • Author(s): Julie Anderson
  • Location(s): London, Westminster
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

TRUTH NEVER DIES It had been solely personal. Not anymore. Determined to put the ghosts of her past to rest, Cassandra Fortune asks a former head of GCHQ for help, only to receive a message from beyond the grave....

Plague

Plague
  • Author(s): Julie Anderson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

There are many ways to die. Plague is just one of them. Work on a London tube line is halted by the discovery of an ancient plague pit and, within it, a very recent corpse. A day later another...

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