Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but he was born in 1581 and has been alive for centuries. The only rule he has to follow is Don't fall in love. Always changing his identity to stay alive, Tom now has the perfect cover--working as a history teacher at a London school. When Tom catches the eye of a captivating woman named Camille at the dog park, everything begins to unravel.

"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 and find that each of their lives is impacted in ways they could have never foreseen"--Publisher.

Action takes place during a single day in the life of a London evening newspaper and each chapter chronicles one hour of that day. It presents a detailed picture of the London of the nineteen seventies, with its policemen and crooks, bankers and call girls, reporters and politicians, its shops and slums, its roads and its river.

Meet Martin, JJ, Jess, and Maureen. Four people who come together on New Year's Eve: a former TV talk show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother. Three are British, one is American. They encounter one another on the roof of Topper's House, a London destination famous as the last stop for those ready to end their lives. This is a tale of connections made and missed, punishing regrets, and the grace of second chances.

The Dupayne, a small private museum on the edge of London's Hampstead Heath devoted to the interwar years 1919-39, is in turmoil. The trustees--the three children of the museum founder, old Max Dupayne--are bitterly at odds over whether it should be closed. Then one of them is brutally murdered, and what seemed to be no more than a family dispute erupts into horror. For even as Commander Adam Dalgiesh and his team investigate the first killing, a...

Two London families from different social classes, the Coleman's and the Waterhouse's, are brought together when they meet by accident in a cemetery in 1901.

They'll chase you. They'll rip you open. They'll feed on you ... When the sickness came, every parent, policeman, politician - every adult - fell ill. The lucky ones died. The others are crazed, confused and hungry. Only children under fourteen remain, and they're fighting to survive. Now there are rumours of a safe place to hide. And so a gang of children begin their quest across London, where all through the city - down alleyways, in deserted houses,...

Madeline Deveridge is all too aware of the whispers behind her back, the rumors that she dispatched her husband to the next world and concealed her crime. But Madeline has a far more pressing problem than being called the Wicked Widow. She fears that she and her beloved aunt are being haunted! --

Of the complex, richly rewarding masterworks he wrote in the last decade of his life, Little Dorrit is the book in which Charles Dickens most fully unleashed his indignation at the fallen state of mid-Victorian society. Crammed with persons and incidents in whose recreation nothing is accidental or spurious, containing, in its picture of the Circumlocution Office, the most witheringly exact satire of a bureaucracy we possess, Little Dorrit is a stunning...

"A novel about a woman who one day comes home to find her attic is magic and producing an endless supply of interchangeable husbands."-- "When Lauren returns home to her flat in London late one night, she is greeted at the door by her husband, Michael. There's only one problem--she's not married. She's never seen this man before in her life. But according to her friends, her much-improved decor, and the photos on her phone, they've been together...