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SPQR

SPQR
  • Author(s): Mary Beard
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 600sBC - 400sAD

Shortlisted for a British Book Industry Book of the Year Award 2016 Ancient Rome matters. Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves. Its myths and stories – from Romulus and...

Spring Blossoms at Mill Grange

Spring Blossoms at Mill Grange
  • Author(s): Jenny Kane
  • Location(s): Somerset
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Helen Rogers has been lying to herself over her feelings for Tom since the moment they met. And for good reason; not only are they colleagues, working together with the archaeology groups at Mill Grange, but her sabbatical is...

Spring Comes to Emmerdale

Spring Comes to Emmerdale
  • Author(s): Pamela Bell
  • Location(s): Yorkshire Dales
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW1

‘Amazing! All the familiar names here, not least, the Dingles!‘ – Amazon reviewer, 5 stars World War I wages on, and the families of Emmerdale are trying their best to move on from tragedy, while the effects of war...

Spring Fever

Spring Fever
  • Author(s): Mary Kay Andrews
  • Location(s): North Carolina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

First husbands Annajane truly believes she is over her ex-husband, Mason. They’ve been divorced for four years, she’s engaged to a terrific new guy, and she’s ready to leave the small North Carolina town where she and Mason had...

Spring Flowers, Spring Frost

Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
  • Author(s): Ismail Kadare
  • Location(s): Albania
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Spring Marrying

Spring Marrying
  • Author(s): Jon Rosebank
  • Location(s): Torbay
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Edwardian

Jimmy Blackbridge is the deckhand on a small sailing trawler, fishing out of Brixham, Devon in 1912. He is coming into harbour after a storm, looking on the quayside for his beloved Alice. He will have to tell her...

Springtime at the Cider Kitchen

Springtime at the Cider Kitchen
  • Author(s): Fay Keenan
  • Location(s): Somerset
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Caroline Hemingway can’t help but feel a little strange watching her ex sister-in-law marrying the owner of Carter’s Cider Farm, but she’s delighted Anna’s found happiness after the death of her late husband, and Caroline’s brother, James. If only...

Spy School

Spy School
  • Author(s): Stuart Gibbs
  • Location(s): Virginia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour, Young Adult
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Can a normal, average kid become a superstar secret agent? Maybe not, but it’ll be fun to watch him try! Ben Ripley may only be in middle school, but he’s already pegged his dream job: C.I.A. or bust. Unfortunately...

Square Haunting

Square Haunting
  • Author(s): Francesca Wade
  • Location(s): Bloomsbury
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): 1920s and 1930s

Mecklenburgh Square, on the radical fringes of interwar Bloomsbury, was home to activists, experimenters and revolutionaries; among them were the modernist poet H. D., detective novelist Dorothy L. Sayers, classicist Jane Harrison, economic historian Eileen Power, and writer and...

Squeaky Clean

Squeaky Clean
  • Author(s): Callum McSorley
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘A manic tale of blood and suds told with laconic humour and warmly engaging characterisation. Callum McSorley is definitely a talent to watch’ Chris Brookmyre Half the Glasgow polis think DI Alison McCoist is bent. The other half just...

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