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Secrets of the Homefront Girls

Secrets of the Homefront Girls
  • Author(s): Kate Thompson
  • Location(s): Stratford
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW 2

Although England may be at war, for the young women working the lipstick production line at Yardley’s cosmetics factory in East London, it’s business as usual. For headstrong and flirtatious Renee Gunn, that means taking Esther, a young Austrian...

Secrets of the Jam Factory Girls

Secrets of the Jam Factory Girls
  • Author(s): Mary Wood
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): pre WW1

Secrets of the Jam Factory Girls is a moving saga novel of friendship set in the heart of pre-WWI London from bestselling author, Mary Wood. Elsie’s worked her way up at Swift’s Jam Factory from the shop floor to...

September Ends

September Ends
  • Author(s): Hunter S Jones
  • Location(s): Chattanooga, Georgia, London
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sometimes when you believe it’s the end, it’s only the beginning. September Ends is contemporary fiction with romance, erotic, and supernatural elements, bound together by poetry. It reveals the intricate web of passion and desire which entangles Liz Snow,...

Sequins and Secrets (The House of Serendipity)

Sequins and Secrets (The House of Serendipity)
  • Author(s): Lucy Ivison
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1920s

When seamstress Myrtle is employed as a maid at the grand Serendipity House, she doesn’t expect to be enlisted by young Lady Sylvia to fix a debutante dress disaster. But the girls’ individual talents for dressmaking and design are...

Serious Sweet

Serious Sweet
  • Author(s): A L Kennedy
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jon is 59 and divorced: a senior civil servant in Westminster who hates many of his colleagues and loathes his work, he is a good man in a bad world. Meg is a bankrupt accountant – two words you...

Shadowplay

Shadowplay
  • Author(s): Joseph O'Connor
  • Location(s): London
  • Era(s): Late 19th century

1878- The Lyceum Theatre, London. Three extraordinary people begin their life together, a life that will be full of drama, transformation, passionate and painful devotion to art and to one another. Henry Irving, the Chief, is the volcanic leading...

SHE

SHE
  • Author(s): Pete Brassett
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Present day

A gripping murder mystery detective thriller that keeps you guessing until the end. Detective Inspector Munro is a burly Scottish policeman who doesn’t suffer fools gladly. Detective Sergeant West is an intelligent young woman, new to the force, with...

She Came to Stay

She Came to Stay
  • Author(s): Eleni Kyriacou
  • Location(s): Soho (London)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

One of Woman & Home‘s Best Historical Fiction Reads of 2020 In a city of strangers, who can you trust? London, 1952. Dina Demetriou has travelled from Cyprus for a better life. She’s certain that excitement, adventure and opportunity...

Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon

Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon
  • Author(s): Wole Talabi
  • Location(s): Lagos, London, Singapore
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future, Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The British Science Fiction Award-nominated and Nebula Finalist debut novel from Wole Talabi. This contemporary fantasy is filled with the mythos of Nigeria and features Yoruba gods liberating an artefact from the depths of the British Museum. Shigidi is...

Shock Therapy

Shock Therapy
  • Author(s): Angus Blair
  • Location(s): London, Cornwall, Ireland, Lisbon
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Henry Bradbury’s life is in free fall. His marriage has failed, he’s about to lose his City job, and he now finds himself dangerously out of his depth as an unlikely agent of the British secret intelligence services. His...

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