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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...

The Silent Dead

The Silent Dead
  • Author(s): Tetsuya Honda
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Twenty-seven-year-old Detective Reiko Himekawa has an impressive ability to solve crimes. When a gruesomely slaughtered body wrapped in plastic is discovered, Reiko soon uncovers eleven other murders with a similar ‘signature’ and a reference to something called ‘strawberry night’,...

The Silent Girls

The Silent Girls
  • Author(s): Eric Rickstad
  • Location(s): New Hampshire, Vermont
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The Silent Girls is an engrossing and dark psychological thriller that follows private investigator Frank Rath’s investigation into a string of mysterious disappearances of teenage girls during the dead of winter in the rural town of Canaan, Vermont. Chilling...

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