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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...

Searching for Grace Kelly

Searching for Grace Kelly
  • Author(s): M G Callahan
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

For a small-town girl with big dreams in 1955, there is no address more desirable than New York’s Barbizon Hotel – the place where Grace Kelly lived when she first came to the big city. Laura is an aristocratic beauty...

Secret Paris: Colouring for mindfulness

Secret Paris: Colouring for mindfulness
  • Author(s): Zoé de Las Cases
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Miscellaneous
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Wander through picturesque streets, visit quirky shops and cafes, and enjoy a uniquely French way of life in the course of these pages. As you focus on colouring in and forget the stresses of everyday life, you’ll find calm...

Secrets in Sicily

Secrets in Sicily
  • Author(s): Penny Feeny
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

Sicily, 1977 Ten-year-old Lily and family arrive for their annual summer holiday in Sicily. Adopted as a toddler, Lily’s childhood has been idyllic. But a chance encounter with a local woman on the beach changes everything… 10 years later…...

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