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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Half a life	V. S. Naipaul	One of the finest living writers in the English language, V. S. Naipaul gives us a tale as wholly un-expected as it is affecting, his first novel since the exultantly acclaimed A Way in the World, pu…	OL103096W
Reel murder	Marian Babson	When Trixie Dolan accompanies her friend and rival Evangeline Sinclair to London, she's hoping they'll have a good time. Then a dead body turns up, followed by another one, and the police are suspect…	OL103869W
A corpse in a gilded cage	Robert Barnard	Perce Spender, a working-class Londoner, is unexpectedly transformed into the twelfth Earl of Ellesmere when a distant relative dies. But he would rather be warming a bar stool in his local pub, and …	OL10467098W
Paddington at the Tower	R. W. Alley,Michael Bond	When Paddington Bear visits the Tower of London, his suitcase full of marmalade sandwiches causes unexpected trouble.	OL10490630W
The way we live now	Anthony Trollope	From a review of the Anthony Trollope canon in The Economist (2020/04/08 edition): *“The Way We Live Now” (1875) is as much a portrait of the last few decades as it is of the high Victorian age, and…	OL109871W
The Wicked Widow	Jayne Ann Krentz	Madeline Deveridge is aware of the whispers behind her back, the rumors that she dispatched her husband to the next world and concealed her crime. But she has a far more pressing problem than her rep…	OL112340W
Me and my million	Clive King	When Ringo, a young Londoner, finds himself in sudden possession of a stolen painting worth a million pounds, his life turns into a series of wild adventures.	OL11273583W
Lady Moses	Lucinda Roy	The difficult life of a colored woman before she finds a homeland. She is Jacinta, English-born daughter of an African writer and a white Englishwoman. After an unhappy childhood in Britain and an un…	OL114091W
An accidental light	Elizabeth Diamond	I've seen her a thousand times. Running through the blue shadows in the rain. Stopped by a screech of brakes and my voice shouting. Stopped by the sudden boom of my heart. On a quiet road just outsid…	OL11947018W
The last pope	Luís Miguel Rocha	Already an international bestseller, The Last Pope is a terrific, fast-paced thriller about the conspiracy surrounding the 1978 death of Pope John Paul I. 1978, Vatican City: On September 29, the wor…	OL12518490W
Children of the Ghetto	Israel Zangwill	Joodse inwoners van de Londense wijk Whitechapel hebben moeite hun traditionele denkbeelden te verenigen met wat er uit de moderne samenleving op ze afkomt.	OL1285635W
A landing on the sun	Michael Frayn	Unusual, captivating. A few books I speed read sometimes but not this one. Devoured every single word. Winner of Sunday Express Book of the Year 1991	OL13380W
Headlong	Michael Frayn	"A British comedy in which academic Martin Clay is asked by a boorish country squire to assess his paintings. Clay spots what he suspects is a Bruegel and so begins a tale of lies and concealment as …	OL13389W
The Wet Nurse's Tale	Erica Eisdorfer	Bright and clever with a sharp-tongued, adventurous heroine who offers a candid and often funny look at the business of nursing babies in Victorian England, this is a debut novel that will have every…	OL13773581W
Blind Justice (Sir John Fielding #1)	Bruce Alexander	Falsely charged of theft in 1768 London, thirteen-year-old orphaned printer's apprentice Jeremy Proctor finds his only hope in the legendary Sir John Fielding. Fielding, founder of the Bow Street Run…	OL14136W
Portobello	Ruth Rendell	'Rendell coaxes her horrors along so seductively that all kinds of nastiness seem not only possible, but inevitable' Literary ReviewThe Portobello area of West London has a rich personality - vibrant…	OL14921728W
In the falling snow	Caryl Phillips	From one of our most admired fiction writers: the searing story of breakdown and recovery in the life of one man and of a society moving from one idea of itself to another.Keith--born in England in t…	OL14955894W
A little princess	Bob Blaisdell,Thea Kliros	Throughout her long and successful career, Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) had a reputation for delighting readers with stories about people whose desperate situations always seemed to improve by…	OL15040856W
Second chance	Jane Green	"The story of a group of people who haven't seen each other since they were best friends at school. When one of them dies in a terrible tragedy, the reunited friends work through their grief together…	OL15151505W
For Hire	Luke Bradbury	What does a gigolo do when his lives start to collide? Find out in this saucy and eye-opening memoir.Mixing business and pleasure - to devastating effect...Now 25 years old, young Australian Luke Bra…	OL15170993W