- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘A gripping thriller’ Ian Rankin Slough House – the crumbling office building to which failed spies, the ‘slow horses’, are banished – has been wiped from secret service records. Reeling from recent losses in their ranks, the slow horses...
Slow Dancing on Dinosaur Bones
- Location(s): Kentucky
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
When wayward Californian Tom Jetts rolls his broken-down car into remote Pick, Kentucky, he finds himself in a town among friends, enemies, and lovers who are playing out tales as old as the prehistoric soil beneath their feet. And...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1960s/70s
No one burned hotter than Eve Babitz. Possessing skin that radiated “its own kind of moral laws,” spectacular teeth, and a figure that was the stuff of legend, she seduced seemingly everyone who was anyone in Los Angeles for...
- Location(s): New England
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Present day
Westview belongs on a postcard. Quaint, picture-perfect, a tiny New England town steeped in history and traditions. Angela has always been everything people in Westview want her to be. She’s supposed to be happy there, but she’s starting to...
Slow Trains to Venice: A Love Letter to Europe
- Location(s): Europe
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
Do you love trains? Do you love adventure? If so, join Tom Chesshyre on his meandering rail journey across Europe from London to Venice. Escaping the rat race for a few happy weeks, Chesshyre indulges in the freedom of...
- Location(s): Spain
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary (Late 2010s)
This is a warts n’ all trip through some of Spain’s hidden gems: towns, cities, landscapes and cultural highlights that are typically overlooked by foreign tourists but which the Spanish often keep to themselves. Against a backdrop of strikes...
- Location(s): India
- Era(s): 1960s
‘Slowly Down the Ganges’ is seen as a vintage Newby masterpiece, alongside ‘A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush’ and ‘Love and War in the Apennines’. Told with Newby’s self-deprecating humour and wry attention to detail, this is a...
Slowly Slowy: The Old Way to Everest Base Camp
- Location(s): Nepal
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
Lee Prescott had twice been thwarted in his lifetime ambition – to see Mount Everest with his own eyes. This was in no way due to lack of planning, preparation or ability on his part. After a decade of...
Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
A Mississippi ghost town and an art mystery combine! How far would you go to find something that might not even exist? All her life, Cricket’s mama has told her stories about a secret room painted by a mysterious...
Small Acts of Kindness, a tale of the first Russian Revolution
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1825 to 1828
St Petersburg, 1825. Imperial Russia still basks in the light of glorious victory over Napoleon, but rising resentment against autocracy, enslavement and injustice threatens the state. Vasily, a privileged, naïve young man returns from a tour of Europe destined...
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