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Skin Taker

Skin Taker
  • Author(s): Michelle Paver
  • Location(s): Scandinavia
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Stone Age

Queen of the Stone Age, Michelle Paver takes us back to the wild Stone Age forests of the Wolf Brother series in SKIN TAKER, an epic, magical and exhilarating adventure whose themes of survival, resilience and friendship, will resonate...

Skin, Paper, Stone

Skin, Paper, Stone
  • Author(s): Máire T Robinson
  • Location(s): Galway
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern-day

People think that if they go far away they’ll leave the parts of themselves behind. But it doesn’t work like that. Stevie moves to Galway to pursue her PhD and takes refuge in the city, and in her relationship...

Skinny Dip

Skinny Dip
  • Author(s): Carl Hiaasen
  • Location(s): Florida
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): 1990s

Set in south Florida in the 1990s, Skinny Dip is a fun and funny tale about a woman, Joey, who is thrown off a cruise ship by her loser husband, Chaz. Joey survives by hanging onto a drifting bale...

Skipping Christmas

Skipping Christmas
  • Author(s): John Grisham
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

The bestselling novel behind the iconic movie Christmas with the Kranks Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded shops, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes and no unwanted presents. That’s just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind...

Skipping without Ropes

Skipping without Ropes
  • Author(s): Jack Mapanje
  • Location(s): Malawi
  • Genre(s): Poetry
  • Era(s): 1987

Because he was a radical poet, Jack Mapanje was imprisoned without trial or charge by the dictator Hastings Banda of Malawi for nearly four years. Skipping without Ropes is his third and most varied collection, with poems on his...

Sky Chasers

Sky Chasers
  • Author(s): Emma Carroll
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children, Fantasy
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Orphan Magpie can’t believe her eyes when she sees a boy swept off his feet by a kite … or something that twists and dances in the wind. She goes to his rescue only to find herself dangling in...

Sky Dancer

Sky Dancer
  • Author(s): Gill Lewis
  • Location(s): The Pennines
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Joe has always loved the moorlands above his home: the wildness, the freedom, the peace. But since his father died, everything has changed, and the moors are no longer a place of refuge. Now the whole community is divided...

Sky Hawk

Sky Hawk
  • Author(s): Gill Lewis
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

When Callum and his friends find Iona on Callum’s farm they try to chase her back into the village. But Iona runs from them up into the hills. It is late and dark and snow lies in the mountain...

Sky of Red Poppies

Sky of Red Poppies
  • Author(s): Zohreh Ghahremani
  • Location(s): Iran
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Sky of Red Poppies begins with a casual friendship between two schoolgirls coming of age in a politically divided 1960’s Iran under rule of the Shah. Roya, the daughter of a prominent family, is envious of the fierce independence...

Sky’s the Limit

Sky’s the Limit
  • Author(s): Janie Millman
  • Location(s): Marrakech, France
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Present

Sky is devastated when she finds that her husband is in love with someone else, even more that it is her oldest friend Nick. She has lost the two most important men in her life and can’t ever trust...

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