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Shakespeare’s Local

Shakespeare’s Local
  • Author(s): Pete Brown
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 15th Century onwards

Welcome to the George Inn near London Bridge: a cosy, wood-pannelled, galleried coaching house a few minutes’ walk from the Thames. Grab yourself a pint, listen to the chatter of the locals and consider this: who else has made...

Siege

Siege
  • Author(s): Simon Kernick
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modner

London is under attack. People are dead. Many more lives hang in the balance as a group of highly trained gunmen storm the historic Stanhope Hotel on Park Lane. The gunmen have given the government just five hours to...

Silent Voices (Vera Stanhope #4)

Silent Voices (Vera Stanhope #4)
  • Author(s): Ann Cleeves
  • Location(s): Tyne Valley
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When DI Vera Stanhope finds the body of a woman in the sauna room of her local gym, she wonders briefly if, for once in her life, she’s uncovered a simple death from natural causes. But a closer inspection...

Sirens

Sirens
  • Author(s): Joseph Knox
  • Location(s): Manchester
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Isabelle Rossiter has run away again. When Aidan Waits, a troubled junior detective, is summoned to her father’s penthouse home – he finds a manipulative man, with powerful friends. But retracing Isabelle’s steps through a dark, nocturnal world, Waits...

Six Weeks by the Sea

Six Weeks by the Sea
  • Author(s): Paula Byrne
  • Location(s): Sidmouth
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1800s

Summer 1801. Sidmouth, England. The Austen Family descends upon a fashionable Georgian seaside resort in Devonshire for a six-week holiday. Jane’s brother, Frank, is on leave from the Royal Navy, and dearly wishes to unite his sister with his...

Soho

Soho
  • Author(s): Keith Waterhouse
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

No London neighbourhood more resembles the restless downstream tide of the Thames than the ragged square mile of Soho, and into this human rabbit warren one evening slips Alex Singer, a student from Leeds in pursuit of his errant...

Sorrow and Bliss

Sorrow and Bliss
  • Author(s): Meg Mason
  • Location(s): London, Oxford
  • Era(s): Modern

Everyone tells Martha Friel she is clever and beautiful, a brilliant writer who has been loved every day of her adult life by one man, her husband Patrick. A gift, her mother once said, not everybody gets. So why...

Spring

Spring
  • Author(s): David Szalay
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Canadian-born David Szalay won both the Betty Trask and Geoffrey Faber prizes for his debut, London & the South-East. In Spring, his third novel, he analyses the relationship between two youngish Londoners – James, who is ready for love,...

Sugar and Spice

Sugar and Spice
  • Author(s): Angela Britnell
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Way to a Hero’s Heart … Fiery, workaholic Lily Redman is sure of two things: that she knows good food and that she always gets what she wants. And what she wants more than anything is to make...

Sugar Cane

Sugar Cane
  • Author(s): E E Fry
  • Location(s): England, Mauritius
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s, Modern

Beth Stephens’s seemingly normal life is turned upside down when her father, George Labelle passes away and she finds herself forced into travelling to Mauritius to spread his ashes. Set between England and Mauritius during the sixties to the...

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