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Little Disasters

Little Disasters
  • Author(s): Sarah Vaughan
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

You think you know her… But look a little closer She is a stay-at-home mother of three with boundless reserves of patience, energy and love. After being friends for a decade, this is how Liz sees Jess. Then one...

Live a Little

Live a Little
  • Author(s): Howard Jacobson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything – including her own children....

Lockwood & Co: The Screaming Staircase

Lockwood & Co: The Screaming Staircase
  • Author(s): Jonathan Stroud
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

When the dead come back to haunt the living, Lockwood & Co. step in . . . For more than fifty years, the country has been affected by a horrifying epidemic of ghosts. A number of Psychic Investigations Agencies...

London belongs to Me

London belongs to Me
  • Author(s): Norman Collins
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1938 onwards

A group of Londoners set against the background of impending war, their individual stories, told with panache. Day to day lives vividly portrayed, the eccentrics, the comedy, and the heroism of the individaul.

London Belongs to Me

London Belongs to Me
  • Author(s): Jacquelyn Middleton
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Alex Sinclair couldn’t jump on a plane fast enough. Broken from an unexpected betrayal, she flees sunny Florida for the Britannia cool of London—home of her favourite TV shows, plays, and fangirl heroes. Alex believes London is where she...

London Bridge is Falling Down

London Bridge is Falling Down
  • Author(s): Christopher Fowler
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It was the kind of story that barely made the news. When 91-year-old Alice Hoffman died in her top-floor flat on a busy London road, it’s upheld as an example of what has gone wrong with modern society: she...

London Falling

London Falling
  • Author(s): Patrick Radden Keefe
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Around 2019

In 2019, a London teenager, Zac Brettler, fell to his death from a luxury apartment building on the banks of the Thames. On a desperate quest to understand how their son had died, his grieving parents made a terrible...

London in Black

London in Black
  • Author(s): Jack Lutz
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Future, Dystopian, Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 2020s

A TENSE, TICKING-BOMB THRILLER SET IN A GRITTY NEAR-FUTURE LONDON LONDON 2027 Terrorists deploy London Black, a highly sophisticated nerve gas, at Waterloo Station. For ten percent of the population – the ‘Vulnerables’ – exposure means near-certain death. Only...

London is Dead

London is Dead
  • Author(s): Michael Keenaghan
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Set in 2006

‘Tough, urban prose from an author with a sharp, distinctive style and an ear for the language of London’s naughtier characters. Keenaghan’s love for his city shines through in this driven, thumping novel. Cult fiction for the 2020s.’ –...

London Rules

London Rules
  • Author(s): Mick Herron
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

London Rules might not be written down, but everyone knows rule one. Cover your arse. Regent’s Park’s First Desk, Claude Whelan, is learning this the hard way. Tasked with protecting a beleaguered prime minister, he’s facing attack from all...

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