London (England)

Birds of a Feather

Maisie Dobbs takes on a case to find a runaway heiress, but discovers complications leading back to the Great War when she realizes three of the heiress' friends have been murdered.

Children of the rich, Crimes against, Dobbs, Maisie (Fictitious character), fiction, Historical fiction

A former talk-show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother, each intending to commit suicide, find themselves together on the roof of a London building and begin to contemplate their individual

fiction, Humorous fiction, London (England), New Year, Psychological fiction

Gallows Thief

Bernard Cornwell

Rider Sandman, a hero at Waterloo, accepts a position as an investigator upon his return from the war and finds himself pitted against some of the most powerful men in Regency England.

Death row inmates, fiction, Historical fiction, London, London (England)

Montmorency

Eleanor Updale

In Victorian London, after his life is saved by a young physician, a thief utilizes the knowledge he gains in prison and from the scientific lectures he attends as the physician's case study exhibit t

19th century, fiction, Great Britain, Historical fiction, History

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson

Dr. Jekyll, a genteel, respectable London physician is transformed into Mr. Hyde, a foul-tempered, uncouth degenerate.

19th century, Allegories, England, fiction, Horror tales

Refugee Boy

Benjamin Zephaniah

Fourteen-year-old Alem Kelo adjusts to life as a foster child seeking asylum in London, while his Eritrean mother and Ethiopian father work for peace between their homelands in Africa.

Asylum, England, Eritrean-Ethiopian War, 1998-, fiction, Foster home care

Spring-heeled Jack

Philip Pullman

Three children make their escape from a London orphanage and after a series of misadventures are reunited with their father through the efforts of the legendary Spring-Heeled Jack.

fiction, London (England), Orphans