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Forever Amber Forever Amber Kathleen Winsor Abandoned pregnant and penniless on the teeming streets of London, 16-year-old Amber St. Clare manages, by using her wits, beauty, and courage, to climb to the highest position a woman could achieve … OL100278W
Dead Air Dead Air Iain M. Banks Ken Nott is a devoutly contrarian, vaguely left-wing radio shock-jock living in London. After a wedding breakfast, people start dropping fruit from a balcony on to a deserted car park below. As they … OL100778W
Half a life 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
The Apprentices (Apprentices #1-12) The Apprentices (Apprentices #1-12) Leon Garfield *In the year 1764, a London newspaper reported the case of a Cheapside haberdasher’s apprentice who had embezzled ten thousand pounds of his master’s money. The apprentice had not gambled with this p… OL10538188W
Little Meg's children Little Meg's children Hesba Stretton When her mother dies leaving Little Meg to care for her two young brothers in nineteenth-century London, they spend their days asking for God's blessings and trying to find enough food to keep them a… OL10586351W
The Grand Babylon Hotel The Grand Babylon Hotel Arnold Bennett Thronging with princes, diplomats, beautiful heiresses and international conspirators, the sumptuous suites and corridors of the Grand Babylon are buzzing with gossip, intrigue — even murder. The act… OL109235W
Phineas Redux Phineas Redux Anthony Trollope *The Palliser Novels*, book 4: *Phineas Redux* OL109870W
The way we live now 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 Eustace diamonds The Eustace diamonds Anthony Trollope *The Palliser Novels*, book 3: *The Eustace Diamonds* OL109873W
The Paid Companion The Paid Companion Jayne Ann Krentz Synopsis - The Earl of St. Merryn needs a woman. His intentions are purely practical - he simply wants someone sensible and suitably lovely to pose as his betrothed for a few weeks among polite socie… OL112332W
The River Knows The River Knows Jayne Ann Krentz A lady with a secret past.A man in search of a killer.They thought they had nothing in common-until their first kiss OL112338W
Glass houses Glass houses Stella Cameron British photographer Olivia FitzDurham is running for her life -- all the way to New York City and a man she's never met. The pictures she took for a London magazine seem harmless, but the man who tr… OL115439W
Hocus pocus Hocus pocus Paul Kieve The greatest magicians in history step out of posters of themselves to teach a young Englishman, just starting his career, some of their secrets. Includes facts about the magicians, instructions for … OL11876583W
The Piccadilly Murder The Piccadilly Murder Anthony Berkeley Stopping in at the Piccadilly Palace Hotel for a bit of afternoon refreshment, Mr. Ambrose Chitterwick witnesses a chilling scene: an elderly lady dies of poisoning in the midst of a crowded lounge. … OL11944240W
One across, two down One across, two down Ruth Rendell Two things interest Stanley Manning: crossword puzzles, and the substantial sum his wife Vera stands to inherit when his mother-in-law dies. Otherwise, life at 61 Lanchester Road is a living hell. Fo… OL12093W
The killing doll The killing doll Ruth Rendell An intense and disturbing novel from the UK's most loved crime writerThe winter before he was sixteen, Pup sold his soul to the devil. He wasn't quite sure what he was going to get in exchange. For t… OL12152W
The Keys to the Street The Keys to the Street Ruth Rendell Set in and around London's Regents Park, where the city's wealthiest, poorest, kindest, and most vicious citizens all cross paths, this newest novel by the Edgar and Gold Dagger-winning author of Cro… OL12191W
Alexander's bridge Alexander's bridge Willa Cather Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air of a man of taste who does not very often get to Boston. He had… OL12781W
The Eye of Osiris The Eye of Osiris R. Austin Freeman Dr. John Thorndyke is a professor of medicine, but he is also a pathological sleuth with a taste for mysteries that would stop other detectives cold. The disappearance of a successful archaeologist. … OL13150029W
Hammer Hammer Sara Stockbridge "Grace Hammer lives a life with her four children in London's dank and dirty East End, dipping the pockets of wealthy strangers foolish enough to venture there. She keeps a clean house and a tight ho… OL13732978W
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