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River Clyde

River Clyde
  • Author(s): Simone Buchholz, Rachel Ward (translator)
  • Location(s): Glasgow, Hamburg
  • Genre(s): Crime, In Translation, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Mired in grief after tragic recent events, state prosecutor Chastity Riley escapes to Scotland, lured to the birthplace of her great-great-grandfather by a mysterious letter suggesting she has inherited a house. In Glasgow, she meets Tom, the ex-lover of...

Riviera Gold

Riviera Gold
  • Author(s): Laurie R King
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), Monaco
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1925

Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes #16 It’s summertime on the Riviera, where the Jazz Age is busily reinventing the holiday delights of warm days on golden sand and cool nights on terraces and dance floors. Just up the coast...

Rook

Rook
  • Author(s): Jane Rusbridge
  • Location(s): Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Nora has come home to the Sussex coast where, every dawn, she runs along the creek path to the sea. In the half-light, fragments of cello music crash around in her mind, but she casts them out – it’s...

Sacred Games

Sacred Games
  • Author(s): Vikram Chandra
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

A novel with an incredible amount of breadth, politics, partition, the city of Mumbai – this is truly a book “set in India”.

Safari: A Memoir of a Worldwide Travel Pioneer

Safari: A Memoir of a Worldwide Travel Pioneer
  • Author(s): Geoffrey Kent
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1960s onwards

In this breathtaking travel memoir and adventure guide, the legendary founder of the world’s premier luxury travel company, Abercrombie & Kent, takes readers on a whirlwind tour around the globe, sharing his best-kept secrets and the story of his...

Saigon

Saigon
  • Author(s): Anthony Grey
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

An epic saga of twentieth-century Vietnam hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as “the War and Peace of our age” Joseph Sherman first visits Saigon, the capital of French colonial Cochin-China, in 1925 on a hunting expedition with his father, a US senator....

Saint Jack

Saint Jack
  • Author(s): Paul Theroux
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction

An absorbing novel which follows the exploits of an expatriate American stuck in Singapore because he never really goes anywhere else, apart from the Bandung Club.Jack flowers trawls through the streets and underbelly of Singapore.

Salt Bones

Salt Bones
  • Author(s): Jennifer Givhan
  • Location(s): The Salton Sea
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

At the edge of the Salton Sea, in the blistering borderlands, something is out hunting. . . Malamar Veracruz has never left the dust-choked town of El Valle. Here, Mal has done her best to build a good life:...

Saltblood

Saltblood
  • Author(s): Francesca De Tores
  • Location(s): Caribbean, Netherlands, Plymouth
  • Genre(s): Historical, Adventure
  • Era(s): 17th Century

In a rented room outside Plymouth in 1685, a daughter is born as her half-brother is dying. Her mother makes a decision: Mary will become Mark, and Ma will continue to collect his inheritance money. Mary’s dual existence as...

Save Her Child

Save Her Child
  • Author(s): C J Lyons
  • Location(s): Cambria County
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She held her baby in her arms and she knew in that moment that he’d be coming for her. She couldn’t tell anyone her name, she couldn’t let him find her. She had to keep her child safe. In...

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