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Shots Fired

Shots Fired
  • Author(s): Ian Robinson
  • Location(s): London, Northern Ireland, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2021

Suspenseful and exciting! A specialist murder team track a deadly weapon. When a ballistics report shows that a gun used in a Glasgow shooting is the same as the one used in a London murder three years previously, DI...

Shrines of Gaiety

Shrines of Gaiety
  • Author(s): Kate Atkinson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1926

1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and...

Silk for the Feed Dogs

Silk for the Feed Dogs
  • Author(s): Jackie Mallon
  • Location(s): Milan, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Silk for the Feed Dogs illuminates a world the author knows intimately in a way it hadn’t been described before: with thoughtfulness, profundity and humor. Kat Connelly, innovative designer and introspective daughter of an Irish farmer, is disappointed with...

Sirocco Express

Sirocco Express
  • Author(s): Tony Judge
  • Location(s): Africa, Europe, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

This is the story of Adebayo, a young Nigerian boy. He is attracted by the notion of Dickensian London and sets off through Africa for Europe, alongside people smugglers and desperate companions. The author has labeled this book as...

Slade House

Slade House
  • Author(s): David Mitchell
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction, Horror
  • Era(s): 1970s to present

Turn down Slade Alley – narrow, dank and easy to miss, even when you’re looking for it. Find the small black iron door set into the right-hand wall. No handle, no keyhole, but at your touch it swings open....

Sleeper

Sleeper
  • Author(s): J D Fennell
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Fantasy, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1940s

Sixteen-year-old Will Starling is pulled from the sea with no memory of his past. In his blazer is a strange notebook with a bullet lodged inside it: a bullet means for him. As London prepares for the Blitz, Will...

Sleeper: The Red Storm

Sleeper: The Red Storm
  • Author(s): J D Fennell
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1940s

1943.Sleeper spy Will Starling has been drafted in to the SOE, joining forces with the French Resistance in the fight against the Nazis; but Will’s memory is fractured and only occasional flashbacks reveal fragments of his past. Despite this,...

Slough House

Slough House
  • Author(s): Mick Herron
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘A gripping thriller’ Ian Rankin Slough House – the crumbling office building to which failed spies, the ‘slow horses’, are banished – has been wiped from secret service records. Reeling from recent losses in their ranks, the slow horses...

Small Forgotten Moments

Small Forgotten Moments
  • Author(s): Annalisa Crawford
  • Location(s): Seaton, Cornwall, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Is Zenna a muse, a sleep-deprived apparition, or something much more sinister? Suffering long-term amnesia, artist Jo Mckye is ready to start a fresh, new project after the success of her debut exhibition. But the fictional subject of the...

Small Worlds

Small Worlds
  • Author(s): Caleb Azumah Nelson
  • Location(s): Ghana, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azumah Nelson, the no.1 bestselling, award-winning author of Open Water The one thing that can solve Stephen’s problems is dancing. Dancing at Church, with...

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