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Someone Else’s Conflict

Someone Else’s Conflict
  • Author(s): Alison Layland
  • Location(s): Croatia, Yorkshire Dales
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1990s/modern

Jay has chosen an itinerant life of busking and odd-jobbing, using rootlessness and stories to hide the guilt of his mistakes from the 1990s war in Croatia, beneath an outward layer of cheerfulness. When he arrives in the Yorkshire...

Somewhere Beyond the Sea

Somewhere Beyond the Sea
  • Author(s): Miranda Dickinson
  • Location(s): St Ives
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Can you fall in love with someone before you’ve even met? Seren MacArthur is living a life she never intended. Trying to save the Cornish seaside business her late father built – while grieving for his loss – she...

Son

Son
  • Author(s): Johana Gustawsson, Thomas Enger
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Everyone here is lying… Expert on body language and memory, and consultant to the Oslo Police, psychologist Kari Voss sleepwalks through her days, and, by night, continues the devastating search for her young son, who disappeared on his birthday,...

Songbirds

Songbirds
  • Author(s): Christy Lefteri
  • Location(s): Cyprus
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The follow-up to the global bestseller The Beekeeper of Aleppo, Songbirds is a heart-breaking story for our times. She walks unseen through our world. Cares for our children, cleans our homes. Her voice unheard. She has a story to...

Songs of Love and War

Songs of Love and War
  • Author(s): Santa Montefiore
  • Location(s): County Cork
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1900

West Cork, Ireland, 1900. The year marks the start of a new century, and the birth of three very different women: Kitty Deverill, the flame-haired Anglo-Irish daughter of the castle, Bridie Doyle, the daughter of the Irish cook and...

Soul of Rome

Soul of Rome
  • Author(s): Carolina Vincenti
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Photography, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Soul of Rome – A guide to 30 exceptional experiences introduces a new approach to the art of travelling which consists of vagabonding around, chance encounters and unforgettable experiences. Travel guides for those who want to unlock the hidden...

Spanish Beauty

Spanish Beauty
  • Author(s): Esther Garcia Llovet, Richard Village (Translator)
  • Location(s): Benidorm
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Meet Michela, English gangster father, flamenco dancer mother, a hard, uncompromising police officer, operating on the shadier side of the law. In the company of this unorthodox, magnetically compelling character, cult writer Esther García Llovet takes us on a...

Spitalfields Life

Spitalfields Life
  • Author(s): The Gentle Author
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Late 2000s

“I am going to write every single day and tell you about my life here in Spitalfields at the heart of London…” Drawing comparisons with Pepys, Mayhew and Dickens, the gentle author of Spitalfields Life has gained an extraordinary...

Still Missing

Still Missing
  • Author(s): Beth Gutcheon
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Fiction

The New York Times’s reviewer wrote: ‘Love is hard enough to write about, but a parent’s love for a child is almost inexpressible in its universality and in the uneventfulness of its nature under ordinary circumstances. When Alex disappears,...

Still Water

Still Water
  • Author(s): Rebecca Pert
  • Location(s): Shetland Islands
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s-modern day

‘BEAUTIFUL AND BRUTAL…A BREATHTAKING DEBUT’ JOANNA CANNON A beautifully written atmospheric story of trauma, grief and redemption, Still Water is a debut from a bright new voice in literary fiction. When Jane Douglas returns to the Shetland Islands, she...

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