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STRANGE BODIES

STRANGE BODIES
  • Author(s): Antonia Marlowe
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 2067

“Totally gripping, recommend it highly, I could not put this novel down.” Tony Meadows “I was hooked from the moment I read the opening paragraphs of this thriller” M J Fhay “A brilliantly crafted thriller set in a cleverly...

Strange Flowers

Strange Flowers
  • Author(s): Donal Ryan
  • Location(s): County Tipperary
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

In 1973 Moll Gladney goes missing from the Tipperary hillside where she was born. Slowly her parents, Paddy and Kit, begin to accept that she’s gone forever. But she returns, changed, and with a few surprises for her family...

Strange Hotel

Strange Hotel
  • Author(s): Eimear McBride
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

At the mid-point of her life a woman enters an Avignon hotel room. She’s been here once before – but while the room hasn’t changed, she is a different person now. Forever caught between check-in and check-out, she will...

Strange Star

Strange Star
  • Author(s): Emma Carroll
  • Location(s): Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 19th century

From the queen of historical fiction, a thrilling, deliciously creepy story that is sure to freeze your blood . . . They were coming tonight to tell ghost stories. ‘A tale to freeze the blood,’ was the only rule....

Stranger In My Heart

Stranger In My Heart
  • Author(s): Mary Monro
  • Location(s): China, Hong Kong
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Second World War and present day

John Monro MC never mentioned his Second World War experiences, leaving his daughter Mary with unresolved mysteries when he died in 1981. He fought at the Battle of Hong Kong in 1941, made a daring escape across Japanese-occupied China...

Stranger in the Forest: On Foot across Borneo

Stranger in the Forest: On Foot across Borneo
  • Author(s): Eric Hansen
  • Location(s): Borneo
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1982

Eric Hansen was the first westerner ever to walk across the island of Borneo. Completely cut off from the outside world for seven months, he traveled nearly 1,500 miles with small bands of nomadic hunters known as Penan. Beneath...

Stranger in the Kingdom

Stranger in the Kingdom
  • Author(s): Howard Frank Mosher
  • Location(s): Vermont
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Howard Frank Mosher has earned both critical acclaim and a wide readership for his vivid historical portraits of northern New England residents in his fictional Kingdom County, Vermont. A Stranger in the Kingdom tells the unforgettable story of a...

Stranger in the Shogun’s City

Stranger in the Shogun’s City
  • Author(s): Amy Stanley
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Biography, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th century

A vivid, deeply researched work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman in Edo – now known as Tokyo – and a portrait of a great city on the brink of momentous change The daughter of...

Strangers

Strangers
  • Author(s): Dean Koontz
  • Location(s): Nevada
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense
  • Era(s): Modern

They were strangers. A handful of people. From different backgrounds, living in different towns and cities across America, they had nothing in common – except fear. They were victims. Cold and stark, an unknown terror gripped their dreams and...

Strangers in Budapest

Strangers in Budapest
  • Author(s): Jessica Keener
  • Location(s): Budapest
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

Budapest: gorgeous city of secrets, with ties to a shadowy, bloody past. It is to this enigmatic European capital that a young American couple, Annie and Will, move from Boston with their infant son shortly after the fall of...

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