OMA BOOKS

1915: Céline’s lost novel, among pimps and deserters in London’s underworld.

1974: a Greek and a Turkish Cypriot meet secretly in a Nicosia tavern.

Twelve Black British women, most of them Londoners, across a century of lives.

A London surgeon’s Saturday collides with the march against the Iraq war.

A young Bangladeshi bride builds a life in a tower block off Brick Lane.

1975–1999: two wartime friends and their families in multicultural north London.

Orwell washes dishes in Paris hotel kitchens, then tramps across London.

One June day, Clarissa Dalloway walks through London to buy flowers for her party.

1886: an anarchist plot to bomb Greenwich goes wrong in the fogs of London.

A beautiful young man stays young in London while his portrait ages.

Holmes and Watson meet in London and solve their first case together.

An orphan falls in with Fagin’s gang of boy thieves in London.

Days before retiring, Rebus investigates the murder of a Russian poet in Edinburgh.

A road-rage attack during the Festival draws strangers into an Edinburgh mystery.

The residents of one New Town tenement, first serialised in an Edinburgh newspaper.

Heroin, friendship and despair among young men in Leith, Edinburgh’s port.

1930s: an unorthodox teacher shapes her chosen girls at an Edinburgh school.