Meet your eccentric new London neighbours! Bloomsbury's streets abound with secrets, romances, humour, heartaches, and outlandish ambitions.

• Josie is an elusive neighbourhood seer and midnight street dancer.
• Mr. Bootle owns an esoteric bookshop haunted by a ghost named Jemima.
• Mrs. Sorpresa launches a cavernous invitation-only Colombian café.
• Mallory, a flamboyant purple-gowned theatre impresario, teeters between success and disaster.
• Jasper lives rent-free, hiding under the bed of an unwitting resident.

Discover all these spellbinding characters and more in this joyfully offbeat antidote to the lockdown blues.

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As snug as an English village, PEOPLE OF BLOOMSBURY enchants like Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, and intrigues like Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple mysteries.

D. J. Swales (bestselling author of the FITZMARBURY WITCHES series) deftly detours from the dark side to debut this quirky must-read speculative fiction. PEOPLE OF BLOOMSBURY is the first book from the Curled Up and Cozy Collection.

PEOPLE OF BLOOMSBURY is inspired by the wit and enchantment of Japanese popular fiction authors such as Hiromi Kawakami and Sayaka Murata, and work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Isabel Allende, Naguib Mahfouz, Sue Townsend, and Armistead Maupin.

PEOPLE OF BLOOMSBURY is for fans of feel-good speculative fiction, cozy fiction, magical realism, and readers of: Marian Keyes, Mhairi McFarlane, Dolly Alderton, Fiona Gibson, Graham Norton, Sophie Kinsella, Beth O’Leary, Jonas Jonasson, Haruki Murakami, Olivia Spring, Jo Bartlett, Portia MacIntosh, Sophie Ranald, Colleen Coleman, Banana Yoshimoto, Jennifer Weiner, Sophie Ranald, Christopher Edge, Sheila O'Flanagan, Meiko Kawakami, Laura Starkey, Janice Horton, Kristen Bailey, Sophia Money-Coutts, Elizabeth Grey, Jules Wake, June Francis, Helen Bridgett, T. A. Williams, Cathay Lake, Georgia Toffolo, Suzanne Snow, Helen Rolfe, Cathay Bramley, Karen King, Sophie Cousens, Mieko Kawakami, Beth O'Leary, Lindsey Kelk, Eleanor Ray, Olivia Beirne, Annika Martin, Jill Mansell, Alexander McCall Smith, Alice Peterson, Lia Louis, Jessica Ryn, Craig Revel Horwood, Christina Jones, Sue McDonagh, Martha Waters, Katy Birchall, Mary Jayne Baker, Katie Fforde, Fiona Mozley, Nina Allan, and David M. Barnett.

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