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Moonlight Over Mayfair

Moonlight Over Mayfair
  • Author(s): Anton Du Beke
  • Location(s): London, Mayfair
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1937

London, 1937. With a new king in place, tensions are rising in London and across Europe. Shaken by the Great Depression and with talk of another war coming, the Buckingham Hotel is trying to regain some stability. Upstairs, Vivienne...

Morte Point

Morte Point
  • Author(s): Robert Parker
  • Location(s): Devon, London
  • Genre(s): Thriller

Morte Point is a wonderful spot for a holiday. Only that’s not why Ben Bracken is here. He’s here because in this sleepy part of England, events are now unfolding that could cause death and mayhem, and not just...

Most Wanted

Most Wanted
  • Author(s): Andi Osho
  • Location(s): Walthamstow
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

All Naya and Jake want is their own home. An island in the kitchen. A wine cooler, maybe… Nothing fancy really. With artisanal coffee shops and microbreweries popping up on every corner, prices are skyrocketing. And as Jake and...

Mounted and Hung

Mounted and Hung
  • Author(s): Andrene Low
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Jennie’s life has always been planned to the nth degree, but no amount of planning could have prepared her for losing someone she loved. Someone she’d planned on spending the rest of her life with. She’d grieved, according to...

Mrs Dalloway

Mrs Dalloway
  • Author(s): Virginia Woolf
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

This book follows Clarissa Dalloway through one day as she goes about preparing a party that same evening. This beautiful day brings back memories of her childhood, and ponders her choice of husband – should she have married Mr...

Mrs Spy

Mrs Spy
  • Author(s): M J Robotham
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

‘Dark, twisty, and thoroughly entertaining, Mrs Spy is a Thursday Murder Club for spies. You won’t be able to put it down’ – Ava Glass Get ready for a pulse-pounding, laugh-out-loud ride through 1960s London as Maggie Flynn, unexpected...

Mudlarking: Lost And Found on the River Thames

Mudlarking: Lost And Found on the River Thames
  • Author(s): Lara Maiklem
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Current

Lara Maiklem has scoured the banks of the Thames for over fifteen years, in pursuit of the objects that the river unearths: from Neolithic flints to Roman hair pins, medieval buckles to Tudor buttons, Georgian clay pipes to Victorian...

Murder at Hendon Aerodrome

Murder at Hendon Aerodrome
  • Author(s): Christina Koning
  • Location(s): Hendon
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1931

#3 Blind Detective First published as Time of Flight under A. C. Koning May 1931. For blind First World War veteran Frederick Rowlands, the craze for flying holds little interest – after all, he is unlikely ever to set...

Murder in Constantinople

Murder in Constantinople
  • Author(s): A E Goldin
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople), Whitechapel
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1854

Graham Greene meets David Lean in Murder in Constantinople – a historical murder mystery in which a wayward boy from London’s East End is pulled into the hunt for a serial killer on the eve of the Crimean War...

Murder in Drury Lane

Murder in Drury Lane
  • Author(s): Vanessa Riley
  • Location(s): Soho (London)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Turn of the 19th Century

(The Lady Worthing Mysteries Book 2) Offering “a vibrant picture of the roles Black and mixed‑race people played in Regency life” (Publishers Weekly), this unique historical mystery series, featuring a mixed-race heroine with a notorious past, will appeal to...

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