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The Secret of You

The Secret of You
  • Author(s): Victoria Connelly
  • Location(s): The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): MOdern

Journalist Anna McCall has never understood people who collect things so, when she’s asked to interview local collector and eccentric, William Kitson, she isn’t exactly looking forward to the experience. But she soon falls under the charm of Fox...

The Secret Paris Cinema Club

The Secret Paris Cinema Club
  • Author(s): Nicolas Barreau
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Alain Bonnard, the owner of a small art cinema in Paris, is a dyed-in-the-wool nostalgic. In his Cinéma Paradis there are no buckets of popcorn, no XXL colas, no Hollywood blockbusters. Alain holds firm to his principles of quality...

The Secrets of Morgarten

The Secrets of Morgarten
  • Author(s): Louise Mangos
  • Location(s): Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Fourteenth century

A young nation in peril. A web of deception. A triangle of forbidden love. The year is 1315. The fledgling nation of Switzerland – the Confederation Helvetica – is under threat from the Habsburgs. In France, the Knights Templar...

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
  • Author(s): Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the author of Daisy Jones & The Six—an entrancing novel “that speaks to the Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor in us all” (Kirkus Reviews), in which a legendary film actress reflects on her relentless rise to the top...

The Seven Sisters

The Seven Sisters
  • Author(s): Lucinda Riley
  • Location(s): Geneva, Paris, Rio de Janeiro
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Earlier 20th Century

Their future is written in the stars . . . Maia D’Apliése and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, ‘Atlantis’ – a fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva – having been told...

The Seventh Scroll (Egyptian series)

The Seventh Scroll (Egyptian series)
  • Author(s): Wilbur Smith
  • Location(s): Egypt
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 2000BC

A fading papyrus, nearly four thousand years old. Within it lie the clues to a fabulous treasure from an almost forgotten time . . . a riddle that becomes a savage battle across the unforgiving terrain of North Africa....

The Shadow of the Sun

The Shadow of the Sun
  • Author(s): Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • Location(s): Africa
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century

‘Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as a geographical term, Africa doesn’t exist’. Ryszard Kapuscinski has been writing about the people of Africa throughout his career. In...

The Shipping News

The Shipping News
  • Author(s): Annie Proulx
  • Location(s): Newfoundland & Labrador
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Annie Proulx’s highly acclaimed, international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Quoyle is a hapless, hopeless hack journalist living and working in New York. When his no-good wife is killed in a spectacular road accident, Quoyle heads for the land...

The Sicilian Inheritance

The Sicilian Inheritance
  • Author(s): Jo Piazza
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

When Sara Marsala’s beloved great-aunt Rosie passes away, she leaves Sara a valuable piece of land in Sicily, but there’s a catch: the locals refuse to acknowledge the rightful owner of the deed, and if Sara wants the land...

The Siege

The Siege
  • Author(s): Helen Dunmore
  • Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

Leningrad, September 1941. Hitler orders the German forces to surround the city at the start of the most dangerous, desperate winter in its history. For two pairs of lovers -Anna and Andrei, Anna’s novelist father and banned actress Marina...

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