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In 1940, Sally Bowles, that spirited character from Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin, decides to leave her baby daughter with her parents in the country and return to London. There, despite the Blitz, she is determined to live life to the fu
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In this pastiche of Sherlock Holmes we find Sherlock's sister Charlotte to have superior genius, wit and charm with no fewer crimes to solve with the inimitable assistance of Mary Watson.
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First published in 1988, this is the story of Polly Kops, who lives in a charming part of West London, in a big house on a lovely garden square, with her lover and three daughters. From the outside, she looks to be living an ideal life, but upon clos
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In this sequel to Henry James'The Turn of the Screw, as Flora prepares herself for a ball held by the parents of her fiancé, she's startled to see in the mirror a young man standing behind her. She is alarmed to learn that no one else had seen the m
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London 1991. Journalist Kate Higgins is researching the life of Violet Levine, a woman who dragged herself up from shop girl to MP. Kate's own life becomes entangled with her subject, but as she begins to find the real Violet behind the legend, viole
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First published in 1984, this is the tale of a child of the slums, a murderer's widow, and a convicted prostitute. The tale of Mary Waterhouse who rises from her sordid beginnings in London's underworld to become the wife of a liberal politician - wi
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Hilary Bailey
Two stories about romance on the rocks, served with a twist of intrigue. Connections, first published in 2000, follows Fleur Stockley's fight to rebuild her life and business after her boyfriend bankrupts her company and dumps her. Her success comes
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'They call London the Great Whore, and no wonder, seeing so many of her daughters are practising her trade there', says Mary Kelly, who returns to London in the summer of 1888. This is a story of London's Victorian underworld and of the Ripper's last
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Hilary Bailey re-invents the history of the Trojan Wars and tells a new story of Cassandra. Legend has it that Cassandra died at the hand of Clytemnestra, but in this novel she escapes to a farm in Thessaly, and writes her own account of the fall of
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Polly Kops is living with her husband, a hero of the alternative society and her twin daughters in a run-down house in the then-seedy area near Portobello Road. Her older, illegitimate son is being reared by her mother. She does not know who her fath