In the basement of a bookshop in London, a secret society meets twice a year, guardians of an archive of magical items that look like ordinary, everyday things, which they call Unknowable Objects. Their aim is to hide the magic and never use it, because absolute power corrupts absolutely, according to their leader and oldest …
Continue reading The Society of Unknowable Objects by Gareth Brown
Ah, my good (fictional) friend Tanz is back. This is the third book in the Accidental Medium series, which tells the story of Tanz, a 30-something actress who recently discovered that she has psychic powers. She lives in a flat in London with her cat Inka, and has two mentors in her journey to understand …
Continue reading Cross Bones (The Accidental Medium #3) by Tracy Whitwell
Set in London in the 90's, Ordinary Human Failings is the story of Carmel and her family, Irish immigrants whose youngest member, 10 year old Lucy, has been involved in the death of a neighbors 3 year old on their housing estate. Tom, an ambitious and amoral reporter, hopes to exploit the story of the …
At the reunion of an elite school in London, an alumni who is now an MP is killed in the bathrooms and found with cocaine around his nose. Cassie, a former friend and a member of the London police force, finds herself embroiled in the case, not just because she was at the party, but …
A homeless teenage girl in London tricks her way into the home of a wealthy man, in order to get inside the place where her partner was last seen. A gothic fiction, set inside a crumbling mansion full of books and papers owned by a dark and moody man, this book is quite a page …
The Snow Ball takes place all in one night as a masquerade ball on a snowy New Years Eve in fashionable London. The book mostly follows Anna, who is kissed at midnight by a mysterious man, but it also takes in her friend and the host of the party Anne, a wealthy woman who is …
Set in North West London, Ruth is woken by a scream one night, and later thinks she sees something, on her quiet cul-de-sac. But no one will believe her and she's not sure that she can believe herself, because after the birth of her baby, she experienced post partum psychosis. Her delusions were strong enough …
Phew! How can I describe this book.... I feel exhausted after reading it. The cover of the book hints that it's the story of a man who rescues a magpie and then it becomes the link that leads him to understand his father better. A dual memoir, if you will. The story of two fathers …
"A detective story with no detective" says the tagline on this book, and it's a pretty good description. Set in Edinburgh in 2011, Margaret is a middle aged woman whose life has imploded in London, so she flees to her mothers in Scotland. It's one of the coldest Winters on record, and there are a …
Emily, a pretty and young film assistant, is missing. The police have turned up Mia's house to ask her husband Roy what he knows about this girl, since he was the last one to see her alive. The story that follows is Roy's recollection of events against Mia's, bit both of them might not be …
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