Blogs in April 2025

Smoke and Silk 6th April 2025

Pearl Fitzgerald arrives in Limehouse – London’s very ­first Chinatown – to settle her late father’s affairs and claim her inheritance. But when she unwittingly ­finds herself at the scene of a murder, her plans are thrown off course....

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City of Stolen Magic 5th February 2025

India, 1855. The British rule, and all across the country, Indian magic is being stamped out. More terrifying still, people born with magic are being snatched from their homes. Rumour is that they are being taken across the sea...

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On The Greenwich Line 23rd January 2025

In a run-down East London housing office, migrants and frustrated local government employees cross paths and try to work out what the latest policy means for them. As a favour to a friend, one man finds himself roped into...

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Consider Yourself Kissed 28th October 2024

What’s the grown-up meaning of ‘happily ever after’? When she first meets Adam, Coralie is new to London and feeling adrift. But Adam is clever, witty, and (he insists) a quarter of an inch taller than the average British...

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The Lighterman 10th October 2024

Psychopathic gangster Ronnie Kray has a “List” of persons who have “taken liberties” and who are to be disposed of, and now East End barrister Charles Holborne finds his name at the top of the list. He can’t spend...

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