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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 Shampoo Effect

The Shampoo Effect
  • Author(s): Jenny Jackson
  • Location(s): Massachusetts
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

OVER ONE LONG SUMMER, WHO KNOWS WHAT MIGHT COME OUT IN THE WASH? When writer Caroline Lash arrives in Greenhead, she falls immediately for its scenic beaches and New England charm – and even harder for Van Whittaker, a...

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’,...

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