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List view record 1: Amongst our weaponsList view anchor tag for record 1: Amongst our weapons
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Amongst our weapons

Aaronovitch, Ben, 1964-2022
The London Silver Vaults - for well over a century, the largest collection of silver for sale in the world. It has more locks than the Bank of England and more cameras than a celebrity punch-up. Not somewhere you can murder someone and vanish without a trace - only that's what happened. The disap...
List view record 2: Arrowood and the Meeting House murdersList view anchor tag for record 2: Arrowood and the Meeting House murders
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Arrowood and the Meeting House murders

Finlay, Mick2021
London, 1896. As winter grips the city, a group of African travellers seek sanctuary inside the walls of the Quaker Meeting House. They are being hunted by a ruthless showman, who is forcing them to perform in his ethnic exhibition in the London Aquarium. Private investigator William Arrowood and...
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The attic child

Jaye, Lola2022
This fictional work is a heartfelt and emotional dual-narrative historical story about two children locked in the same attic almost a century apart, told through the lens of Black history.
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The Bass Rock

Wyld, Evie2021
Surging out of the sea, the Bass Rock has for centuries borne witness to the lives that pass under its shadow on the Scottish mainland. And across the centuries, the fates of three women are inextricably linked to this place and to each other. Sarah, accused of being a witch, is fleeing for her l...
List view record 5: Battle of brothers : William and Harry - the friendship and the feudsList view anchor tag for record 5: Battle of brothers : William and Harry - the friendship and the feuds
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Battle of brothers : William and Harry - the friendship and the feuds

Lacey, Robert2020
The world has watched Prince William and Prince Harry since they were born. Raised by Princess Diana to be the closest of brothers, how have the boy princes grown into very different, now distanced men? From royal insider, biographer and historian Robert Lacey, this book reveals the untold detail...
List view record 6: Battle of brothers : William, Harry and the inside story of a family in tumultList view anchor tag for record 6: Battle of brothers : William, Harry and the inside story of a family in tumult
List view record 7: Before I sleepList view anchor tag for record 7: Before I sleep
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Before I sleep

Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia2023
Felicity Holland is missing. She left her handsome West London house to go to her weekly pottery class and didn't come back. She's a mature, sensible woman with a stable home life and a happy marriage - no reason to abscond. Her distraught husband is convinced she must have been snatched. DCI Bil...
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Behind closed doors

Alliott, Catherine2021
From the outside, anyone would think that Lucy Palmer has it all: loving children, a dashing husband and a gorgeous home. But when her marriage to Michael comes to an abrupt and unexpected end, her life is turned upside down in a flash. As the truth of her marriage threatens to surface, Lucy seiz...
List view record 9: Black Arsenal : club, culture, identityList view anchor tag for record 9: Black Arsenal : club, culture, identity
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Black Arsenal : club, culture, identity

2024
Arsenal is special. Its multicultural fandom reflects a changing city and a unique relationship with Black British popular culture. Thanks to its decades of fielding iconic Black players on the pitch and the storied and diverse histories of its terraces, Arsenal has emerged as a powerful symbol o...
List view record 10: Black London : the imperial metropolis and decolonization in the twentieth centuryList view anchor tag for record 10: Black London : the imperial metropolis and decolonization in the twentieth century
List view record 11: Blue is the colour : the complete history of the Chelsea shirtList view anchor tag for record 11: Blue is the colour : the complete history of the Chelsea shirt
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Blue is the colour : the complete history of the Chelsea shirt

Yeomans, Nik2025
This coffee-table book takes readers through the history of the famous west London's club kit and in doing so also tell the story of the club, the famous matches and of course the iconic players who wore the shirt with pride and distinction. Compiled using photographs of match worn shirts actuall...
List view record 12: Blue was the colour : a tale of tarnished loveList view anchor tag for record 12: Blue was the colour : a tale of tarnished love
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Blue was the colour : a tale of tarnished love

Hamilton, Andy, 1954-2023
A witty, wise and charming take on modern football by Chelsea fan Andy Hamilton, one of the country's leading comedy writers and stand-ups, and a novelist to boot. It tells of a childhood growing up in the streets surrounding Stamford Bridge and obsessing over Chelsea before he began to question ...
List view record 13: The book forger : the true story of a literary crime that fooled the worldList view anchor tag for record 13: The book forger : the true story of a literary crime that fooled the world
List view record 14: A bookshop of one's own : how a group of women set out to change the worldList view anchor tag for record 14: A bookshop of one's own : how a group of women set out to change the world
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Both of you

Parks, Adele2022
Leigh Fletcher: happily married stepmum to two gorgeous boys goes missing on Monday. Her husband Mark says he knows nothing of her whereabouts. She simply went to work and just never came home. Their family is shattered. Kai Janssen: married to wealthy Dutch businessman, Daan, vanishes the same w...
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The boy with the suitcase

Sharp, Cathy, (Domestic fiction writer)2022
As the shadows of the Blitz hang over London, young Davey finds himself the man of the house when his father leaves to fight in the war. Trying his best to support his mum and to protect his sister, Davey's good intentions find him mixed up with the wrong crowd. To keep him safe, and out of troub...
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A brighter tomorrow

Ford, Maggie2022
When their mother dies of pneumonia, Ellie and her younger sister Dora are left alone in the world. Their hard-drinking, womanising father has abandoned them, and they cannot afford the rent on their East End tenement alone. Ellie is proud but she cannot turn down an offer of help from Doctor Low...
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Careering

Buchanan, Daisy, (Journalist)2022
Imogen has always dreamed of writing for a magazine. Infinite internships later, Imogen dreams of any job. Writing her blog around double shifts at the pub is neither fulfilling her creatively nor paying the bills. Harri might just be Imogen's fairy godmother. She's moving from the glossy pages o...
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The castaways

Clarke, Lucy, 1981-2021
It should be like any other holiday. Beautiful beaches. Golden sunsets. Nothing for miles. Instead there's a group of perfect strangers. All alone on an island - with secrets they'd kill to keep.
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Circus of wonders

Macneal, Elizabeth, 1988-2022
1866. In a coastal village in southern England, Nell picks violets for a living. Set apart by her community because of the birthmarks that speckle her skin, Nell's world is her beloved brother and devotion to the sea. But when Jasper Jupiter's Circus of Wonders arrives in the village, Nell is kid...
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