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The Secret of the Sacred Scarab

The Secret of the Sacred Scarab
  • Author(s): Fiona Ingram
  • Location(s): Egypt
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 21st century

In this exciting Middle Grade adventure set in Egypt, a 5000-year-old mystery comes to life. A scruffy peddler gives Adam and Justin Sinclair an old Egyptian scarab on their very first day in Egypt. Only when the evil Dr....

The Secret of Villa Alba

The Secret of Villa Alba
  • Author(s): Louise Douglas
  • Location(s): Gibellina, Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1963 / 2003

1968, Sicily.  Just months after a terrible earthquake has destroyed the mountain town of Gibellina, Enzo and his wife Irene Borgata are making their way back to the family home, Villa Alba, on roads overlooked by the eerie backdrop of...

The Secret of Villa Serena

The Secret of Villa Serena
  • Author(s): Domenica de Rosa
  • Location(s): Tuscany
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): contemporary

Emily looks like she has it all Living the dream There’s the lovingly restored Tuscan farmhouse, the three beautiful children, the successful husband, the newspaper column detailing her glamorous expat life. But when Emily’s husband dumps her by text...

The Secret Path

The Secret Path
  • Author(s): Karen Swan
  • Location(s): Costa Rica
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sunday Times bestselling author Karen Swan returns with The Secret Path, taking us deep into the heart of the Costa Rican jungle – complete with all her trademark romance, glamour, and jaw-dropping twists. At just twenty years old, Tara...

The Secret Runners of New York

The Secret Runners of New York
  • Author(s): Matthew Reilly
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Gossip Girl meets Mad Max in this breakneck thriller from an international bestselling author where the line between rich and poor is the line between life and death. ‘The windows on all the skyscrapers are smashed . . ....

The Secret Scripture

The Secret Scripture
  • Author(s): Sebastian Barry
  • Location(s): County Sligo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

Winner of the 2008 Costa Book of the Year Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2008 Winner of the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year 2008 Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008 A Sunday Times...

The Secret Society of Salzburg

The Secret Society of Salzburg
  • Author(s): Renee Ryan
  • Location(s): Salzburg, Germany, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

At first glance, Austrian opera singer Elsa Mayer-Braun has little in common with the young English typist she encounters on tour. Yet she and Hattie Featherstone forge an instant connection–and strike a dangerous alliance. Using their friendship as a...

The Secret Speech

The Secret Speech
  • Author(s): Tom Rob Smith
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Tom Rob Smith’s first book, Child 44, enjoyed unprecedented attention and acclaim (as did its youthful author), so it was inevitable that the appetite for that novel’s successor would be keen. Now it’s here, and The Secret Speech, largely...

The Secret Stealers

The Secret Stealers
  • Author(s): Jane Healey
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2 onwards1

A female American spy in Nazi-occupied France finds purpose behind enemy lines in a novel of unparalleled danger, love, and daring by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Beantown Girls. Anna Cavanaugh is a restless young widow and...

The Secret To Falling in Love

The Secret To Falling in Love
  • Author(s): Victoria Cooke
  • Location(s): Greater Manchester, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lifestyle journalist and thirty-something singleton Melissa hashtags, insta’s and snapchats her supposedly fabulous life on every social media platform there is. That is until she wakes up on her birthday, another year older and still alone, wondering if for...

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