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The Shape of Darkness

The Shape of Darkness
  • Author(s): Laura Purcell
  • Location(s): Bath
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 19th century

Wicked deeds require the cover of darkness… A struggling silhouette artist in Victorian Bath seeks out a renowned child spirit medium in order to speak to the dead – and to try and identify their killers – in this...

The Shark Caller

The Shark Caller
  • Author(s): Dianne Wolfer
  • Location(s): Papua New Guinea
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): late 20th century

Isabel is on a plane heading back to her island birthplace in Papua New Guinea. Izzy is looking forward to seeing her family again, but there’s another tragic reason for the trip. Izzy’s twin brother, Ray, died in a...

The Shark Caller

The Shark Caller
  • Author(s): Zillah Bethell, Saara Katariina Söderlund (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Papua New Guinea
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Dive beneath the waves with this spell-binding adventure of friendship, forgiveness and bravery, set on the shores of Papua New Guinea, perfect for fans of Katherine Rundell and Eva Ibbotson. “I want to be able to call the sharks....

The Shark Club

The Shark Club
  • Author(s): Ann Kidd Taylor
  • Location(s): Florida
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

6 My Books Browse ▾ Community ▾ Book details The Shark Clubby Ann Kidd Taylor (Goodreads Author) 3.67  3,606 ratings  614 reviews it was amazing Your Rating (Clear) Read Write a review One summer day on the beach in Florida, two extraordinary things happen to...

The Sharp Edge of a Snowflake

The Sharp Edge of a Snowflake
  • Author(s): Sif Sigmarsdottir
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The captivating, feminist YA thriller. The snow is falling thick and fast now. Snow in Iceland is dangerous. Hannah Eiríksdóttir has been banished from her home in London to a place of eternal punishment for the wicked. No, not...

The Sharpshooter Blues

The Sharpshooter Blues
  • Author(s): Lewis Nordan
  • Location(s): Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

The first question this remarkable new tale of mayhem and misunderstanding asks is: Who is singing the Sharpshooter Blues?Is it Morgan, the teenage trick-shot artist, who stops by The William Tell Grocery in Arrow Catcher, Mississippi, one day to...

The Shawl of Midnight

The Shawl of Midnight
  • Author(s): Jacqueline St Joan
  • Location(s): Kashmir, Mumbai (Bombay), Pakistan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age
  • Era(s): 1996-2015

All the women in Nafeesa’s family have been imprisoned, assassinated, scarred or exiled. Yes, every single one. Is it any wonder, then, that the surviving men in her family have kept those disturbing facts from her? But now Nafeesa...

The Shell: Memoirs of a Hidden Observer

The Shell: Memoirs of a Hidden Observer
  • Author(s): Mustafa Khalifa
  • Location(s): Palmyra
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

The work of a modern-day Sozhenitsyn that exposes acts of violence and brutality committed by the Syrian regime. This compelling first novel is the astonishing story of a Syrian political prisoner of consciencean atheist mistaken for a radical Islamistwho...

The Sheltered Quarter: A Tale of a Boyhood in Mecca

The Sheltered Quarter: A Tale of a Boyhood in Mecca
  • Author(s): Hamza Bogary
  • Location(s): Mecca
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1st half 20th century

Hamza Bogary describes a bygone way of life that has now irreversibly disappeared. He speaks of life in Mecca before the advent of oil. Only partly autobiographical, the memoir is nevertheless rich in remembered detail based on Bogary’s early...

The Sheltering Desert

The Sheltering Desert
  • Author(s): Henno Martin
  • Location(s): Namibia
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): WW2

Threatened with Internment for the duration of World War II, two young German geologists, Henno Martin and Hermann Korn, sought refuge in the Namib Desert and lived a Robinson Crusoe existence for two and a half years. How they...

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