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Murder in Trafalgar Square

Murder in Trafalgar Square
  • Author(s): Michelle Salter
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1910

London, 1910 Coral Fairbanks is a suffragette, actress, and artist’s muse, whose suffragette friends help her cope with her husband’s death – though some disapprove of the nude portrait of her displayed in the National Portrait Gallery. Guy Flynn...

Murder Most Foul

Murder Most Foul
  • Author(s): Guy Jenkin
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Historical
  • Era(s): 1590s

It’s 1593, Elizabeth I is Queen and everyone is terrified of the worst outbreak of plague in a generation. Shakespeare has only written six plays and is lagging behind his friend Christopher Marlowe, London’s leading playwright. When Marlowe is...

Murder on The Heath

Murder on The Heath
  • Author(s): Sabina Manea
  • Location(s): Hampstead, North London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Present day

Can ex-lawyer turned civilian investigator Lucia Steer solve an impossible murder? The apparent cool, calm and collectedness of a relationship counsellor, or ‘coach’ as Alec Penney called himself, is dealt a severe blow when he ends up dead on...

Musical Games

Musical Games
  • Author(s): Evie Alexander
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands, Castle Leod, London, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

He’s never been kissed… Shy electrician Jamie McDougall has never set foot outside Scotland, or his comfort zone. Then beautiful and vivacious Sam gatecrashes his world, and he’s unwillingly swept up in her grand plan. But though Jamie has...

My Counterfeit Self

My Counterfeit Self
  • Author(s): Jane Davis
  • Location(s): Soho (London)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s to present day

From the award-winning author of Half-truths and White Lies and An Unknown Woman, comes an emotional story of hidden identities, complicated passions and tangled truths. ‘Completely gripping, excellently written and so skilfully put together, I can’t recommend My Counterfeit...

My Fine Fellow

My Fine Fellow
  • Author(s): Jennieke Cohen
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1830s

Culinary delights abound, romance lingers in the air, and plans go terribly, wonderfully astray in this gender-bent take on My Fair Lady from Jennieke Cohen, author of Dangerous Alliance—perfect for fans of Bridgerton or A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice...

My Friends

My Friends
  • Author(s): Hisham Matar
  • Location(s): Libya, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An intensely moving novel about three friends living in political exile and the emotional homeland that deep friendships can provide – from the Booker-shortlisted, Pulitzer prize-winning author of THE RETURN Khaled and Mustafa meet at university in Edinburgh: two...

My Lady’s Secrets

My Lady’s Secrets
  • Author(s): Katy Moran
  • Location(s): London, Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Turn of 19th Century

Regency England When rebellious aristocrat Cressida and Lord Greville parted ways, they swore never to meet again. Their short marriage had already descended into bitter estrangement, destroyed by scandal and betrayal. Years later, Greville is a soldier in the...

My Lies, Your Lies

My Lies, Your Lies
  • Author(s): Susan Lewis
  • Location(s): Paris, Devon, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present and looking back to 1960s

For readers of Lisa Jewell, Diane Chamberlain, and Jodi Picoult comes another gripping novel from internationally bestselling author Susan Lewis, about an eccentric old woman, the ghost-writer helping write her memoirs, and the destructive secrets binding them together. Ghost-writer...

My Life as a Bench

My Life as a Bench
  • Author(s): Jaq Hazell
  • Location(s): Richmond-upon-Thames, London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Mystery, Paranormal, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ren Miller has died aged seventeen and yet her consciousness lives on, inhabiting her memorial bench by the River Thames in London. Ren longs to be reunited with her boyfriend Gabe, but soon discovers why he has failed to...

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