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Midnight in Vienna

Midnight in Vienna
  • Author(s): Jane Thynne
  • Location(s): London, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Historical, Espionage
  • Era(s): 1938

Historical espionage at its very best. Set in 1938 in London and Vienna, a tense and atmospheric thriller told against a backdrop of uncertainty and fear as World War Two threatens. As war looms over Britain and there is...

Minaret

Minaret
  • Author(s): Leila Aboulela
  • Location(s): The Sudan, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary,

In her Muslim hijab, with her down-turned gaze, Najwa is invisible to most eyes, especially to the rich London families whose houses she cleans. But twenty years earlier, it was a different story. Najwa was at university in Khartoum...

Miranda Road

Miranda Road
  • Author(s): Heather Reyes
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

Archway, North London. Born in England to an American solider, Georgina Hardiman can’t wait to escape her stop-family. she has big plans for her life…. but she never does make it to Katmandu. The only journey she makes is...

Mirror, Mirror

Mirror, Mirror
  • Author(s): Cara Delevingne
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Current day

Sixteen-year-old friends Red, Leo, Rose, and Naomi are misfits; still figuring out who they are and who they want to be. Life isn’t perfect, but music unites them, and they’re excited about what the future holds for their band,...

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
  • Author(s): Winifred Watson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

Miss Pettigrew, an approaching-middle-age governess, was accustomed to a household of unruly English children. When her employment agency sends her to the wrong address, her life takes an unexpected turn. The alluring nightclub singer, Delysia LaFosse, becomes her new...

Model Under Cover: Deadly by Design

Model Under Cover: Deadly by Design
  • Author(s): Carina Axelsson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a new case lands on Axelle Anderson’s London doorstep, the stylish sleuth can’t resist strapping on the heels and snapping on the shades to track down whoever attacked fashion photographer Gavin. But what’s the deal with the memory...

Monsters

Monsters
  • Author(s): Sharon Dogar
  • Location(s): London, France, Scotland, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 19th century

Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal 1814: Two 16-year-old stepsisters run away with a married man. The results are devastating and the ripples will be felt for centuries. This is the incredible story of Mary Shelley – radical, rebellious and...

Monstrous Design

Monstrous Design
  • Author(s): Kat Dunn
  • Location(s): Paris, London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 18th century

Following the thrills and spills of Dangerous Remedy, the Battalion of the Dead return in a dazzling new adventure, set amid the opulence and squalour of 18th-century London and Paris. 1794, London: Camille and Al are desperately hunting Olympe’s...

Moon Over Soho

Moon Over Soho
  • Author(s): Ben Aaronovitch
  • Location(s): London, Soho (London)
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

I was my dad’s vinyl-wallah: I changed his records while he lounged around drinking tea, and that’s how I know my Argo from my Tempo. And it’s why, when Dr Walid called me to the morgue to listen to...

Moonflower Murders

Moonflower Murders
  • Author(s): Anthony Horowitz
  • Location(s): Greece, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Retired publisher Susan Ryeland is running a small hotel on a Greek island with her long-term boyfriend. But life isn’t as idyllic as it should be: exhausted by the responsibility of making everything work on an island where nothing...

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