- Location(s): Trenton, New Jersey
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Trenton, New Jersey, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum has inherited a “lucky” bottle from her Uncle Pip. Problem is, Uncle Pip didn’t specify if the bottle brought good luck or bad luck. . . . BAD LUCK: Vinnie, of Vincent...
- Location(s): Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
Once upon a time in China, the most beautiful and gifted women were known as “skeleton women”–the ultimate femme fatales who could bring a man to his knees, or to his doom. . . When Camilla, a young orphan...
Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle
- Location(s): Seattle
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Travelogue
- Era(s): 19th & 20th centuries
Skid Road tells the story of Seattle “from the bottom up,” offering an informal and engaging portrait of the Emerald City’s first century, as seen through the lives of some of its most colorful citizens. With his trademark combination...
- Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi), Ireland
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
From the No 1 bestselling author of Richard and Judy Book Club pick, Lying in Wait ‘I could probably have been an actress. It is not difficult to pretend to be somebody else. Isn’t that what I’ve been doing...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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