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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...

Shoot the Moon

Shoot the Moon
  • Author(s): Bella Cassidy
  • Location(s): Aberfeldy, Covent Garden, Glastonbury, Isle of Skye
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Tassie Morris is everyone’s favourite wedding photographer, famous for her photos of offbeat ceremonies and alternative brides. Yet commitment is proving impossible for Tassie herself, who cannot forget her first love. When she’s sent to photograph a ceremony on...

Shooting Martha

Shooting Martha
  • Author(s): David Thewlis
  • Location(s): London, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A darkly funny novel set between a London film set and a villa in the south of France – a mix of Vertigo and Jonathan Coe, written by a master storyteller Celebrated director Jack Drake can’t get through his...

Short Ride on a Fast Machine

Short Ride on a Fast Machine
  • Author(s): Magnus McGrandle
  • Location(s): London, Norway
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 21st Century

Short Ride on A Fast Machine is a quirky and engaging caper, the story of a young cycle courier from London who goes on an improbable journey to Norway, to pick up a stuffed owl for a mysterious client....

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