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The Spanish Cove

The Spanish Cove
  • Author(s): Cherry Radford
  • Location(s): Almería (Almeria)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern Day

The perfect escapist romance. Let yourself be whisked away to sun-drenched Spain for a holiday you won’t forget. For fans of Rosanna Ley, Jennifer Bohnet and Lucy Coleman. Piano teacher Marina Meyer is delighted when her mother offers to...

The Stargazers

The Stargazers
  • Author(s): Harriet Evans
  • Location(s): Hampstead, West Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age
  • Era(s): 1950s/1970s

It’s the 1970s, and Sarah has spent a lifetime trying to bury memories of her childhood: the constant fear, the horror of her school days, and Fane, the vast, crumbling house that was the sole obsession of her mother,...

The Stars’ Tennis Balls

The Stars’ Tennis Balls
  • Author(s): Stephen Fry
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1980s forward

Ned Maddstone has the world at his feet. He is handsome, talented and about to go to Cambridge, after which he is expected to follow his father into politics. But an unfortunate confrontation with a boy in his school...

The Stolen Girl

The Stolen Girl
  • Author(s): Renita D'Silva
  • Location(s): Bangalore (Bengaluru), London, Udupi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

‘Your mother has been arrested. She stole you.’ For as long as thirteen-year-old Diya can remember, it’s always been just her and her mum, Vani. Despite never staying in one place long enough to call it home, with her...

The Storm Sister (The Seven Sisters)

The Storm Sister (The Seven Sisters)
  • Author(s): Lucinda Riley
  • Location(s): Geneva, Germany, Greece, Norway
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1870s, Modern

Ally D’Aplièse is about to compete in one of the world’s most perilous yacht races, when she hears the news of her adoptive father’s sudden, mysterious death. Rushing back to meet her five sisters at their family home, she...

The Street Party

The Street Party
  • Author(s): Claire Seeber
  • Location(s): West London
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The party was supposed to be the highlight of the summer. If only I’d known that night would destroy our lives… All the neighbours were laughing, drinking out of plastic glasses and getting along. I almost felt happy. Almost...

The Summer of France

The Summer of France
  • Author(s): Paulita Kincer
  • Location(s): France, Provence, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When Fia Jennings loses her job at the local newspaper, she thinks she’ll have the chance to bond with her teenage twins. As she realizes she may be too late to create the perfect family, she’s saved by a...

The Sun In Her Eyes

The Sun In Her Eyes
  • Author(s): Paige Toon
  • Location(s): Adelaide
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Amber was three when a car crash stole her mother’s life. She doesn’t remember the accident, but a stranger at the scene has been unable to forget. Now, almost thirty years later, she’s trying to track Amber down. Amber,...

The Sunlit Night

The Sunlit Night
  • Author(s): Rebecca Dinerstein
  • Location(s): Lofoten
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In the beautiful, barren landscape of the Far North, under the ever-present midnight sun, Frances and Yasha are surprised to find refuge in each other. Their lives have been upended – Frances has fled heartbreak and claustrophobic Manhattan for...

The Tale Of Murasaki

The Tale Of Murasaki
  • Author(s): Liza Dalby
  • Location(s): Kyoto
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 11th Century

In a wonderful world shaped by beauty and poetry, ancient traditions and popular intrigue, a young woman at the centre of the eleventh-century Japanese imperial court observes the exotic world around her. Murasaki sees everything, the Emperor and Empress,...

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