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The Book of Beginnings

The Book of Beginnings
  • Author(s): Sally Page
  • Location(s): London, Highgate
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jo Sorsby is hiding from her past when she agrees to run her uncle’s beloved stationery shop. Glimpsing the lives of her customers between the warm wooden shelves, as they scribble little notes and browse colourful notebooks, distracts her...

Find Me in the Stars: a Cevenoles Sagas novel

Find Me in the Stars: a Cevenoles Sagas novel
  • Author(s): Jules Larimore
  • Location(s): Cévennes (Cevennes), London, Rotterdam, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): late 17th century

Inspired by a true story, this refugee’s tale of sacrifice, separation, and abiding love unfolds in the rugged Cévennes Mountains of Languedoc, France, 1697 in a sweeping adventure during a time of religious divisiveness and Louis XIV’s oppressive rule....

The Missing Family

The Missing Family
  • Author(s): Tim Weaver
  • Location(s): Dartmoor, London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One family… On a beautiful summer’s day, at a remote lake in the middle of Dartmoor, three members of the Fowler family take a dinghy out onto the water, leaving mother Sarah at the shore. Less than sixty seconds...

The War Pianist

The War Pianist
  • Author(s): Mandy Robotham
  • Location(s): London, Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

Two cities. Two spies. Which woman survives? Pianist: NOUN. Informal. A person who operates or controls a radio transmitter – often in code. July, 1940 Blitz-ridden London: Marnie Fern’s life is torn apart when her grandfather is killed in...

Our London Lives

Our London Lives
  • Author(s): Christine Dwyer Hickey
  • Location(s): Clerkenwell, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1979 - 2017

1979. In the vast and often unforgiving city of London, two Irish outsiders seeking refuge find one another: Milly, a teenage runaway, and Pip, a young boxer full of anger and potential who is beginning to drink it all...

The Small Museum

The Small Museum
  • Author(s): Jody Cooksley
  • Location(s): London, Dorset
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Victorian

A chilling historical mystery set against the gothic backdrop of Victorian London, The Small Museum won the Caledonia Novel Award in 2023 and is inspired by the extraordinary treasure trove of curiosities that is the Hunterian Museum in London....

The Interpreter

The Interpreter
  • Author(s): Brooke Robinson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Only she knows what they’re saying; a misinterpreted word could decide their fate. So when she believes a grave injustice is about to take a place, and a guilty man might be declared innocent, Revelle twists an alibi to...

No One Saw A Thing

No One Saw A Thing
  • Author(s): Andrea Mara
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

No one saw it happen. Your two little girls jump on the train ahead of you. As you try to join them, the doors slide shut and the train moves away, leaving you behind. Everyone is lying. It’s only...

Criminal Justice

Criminal Justice
  • Author(s): Ian Robinson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

The first book in a totally gripping hard-boiled crime fiction series Undercover detective Sam Batford is through with police budget cuts and ineffectual superiors. But has he gone rogue? He is sent to work with a serious crime team...

Naked in Mayfair

Naked in Mayfair
  • Author(s): The Secret Socialite
  • Location(s): Mayfair
  • Genre(s): Erotica, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Once upon a time, there was a lonely woman who was beautiful on the outside but sad on the inside… Meet Ava, a blonde bombshell and newly divorced banker who leads a glamorous life in Mayfair and is looking...

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