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The Serpent House

The Serpent House
  • Author(s): Bea Davenport
  • Location(s): Berwick upon Tweed
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Victorian and medieval

Set in 1899, the story is about Annie and her older brother, who go to work in the eerie Hexer Hall. Soon we find that Annie can travel in time – and she ends up in the frightening medieval...

The Serpent King

The Serpent King
  • Author(s): Jeff Zentner
  • Location(s): Tennessee
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A dark, southern gothic novel about small-town dreams, love and grief. Dill’s father is in jail for an unspeakable crime. Shunned by the neighbours in their small religious Tennessee town, Dill and his mother try to make ends meet....

The Serpent Sword

The Serpent Sword
  • Author(s): Matthew Harffy
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 633 AD

AD 633 Beobrand is a young man with a shadowy past. As an outsider in the kingdom of Bernicia, he is compelled to join his brother, Octa, as a warrior in the household of King Edwin. He must learn...

The Serpent’s Daughter

The Serpent’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Suzanne Arruda
  • Location(s): Tangier
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Joining her mother for a holiday in the ancient port city of Tangier, American adventuress Jade del Cameron expects their trip will be far less dangerous than her safaris in East Africa. But soon after their introduction to a...

The Serpent’s Root

The Serpent’s Root
  • Author(s): M J Logue
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): English Civil War

After Marston Moor. After Naseby. War returns to the West Country. Book 5 in the bestselling Uncivil Wars series, featuring the adventures of Hollie Babbitt and his rebel rabble of Parliamentarian cavalry. Cornwall, 1646. Thomas Fairfax and the Army...

The Serpentine Road

The Serpentine Road
  • Author(s): Paul Mendelson
  • Location(s): Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Even after the release of Nelson Mandela and the promise of free elections, extremist groups terrorized South Africa, bombing churches, opening fire in bars and restaurants. Nearly twenty-five years ago, as a young Captain, Vaughn de Vries finds himself...

The Settling Earth

The Settling Earth
  • Author(s): Rebecca Burns
  • Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Marriage transplants Sarah thousands of miles from home; a failed love affair forces Phoebe to make drastic choices in a new environment; a sudden, shocking discovery brings Mrs Ellis to reconsider her life as an emigrant-The Settling Earth is...

The Seven Deaths of Eveleyn Hardcastle

The Seven Deaths of Eveleyn Hardcastle
  • Author(s): Stuart Turton
  • Location(s): England, Blackheath
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2018 Gosford Park meets Groundhog Day by way of Agatha Christie and Black Mirror – the most inventive story you’ll read this year Tonight, Evelyn Hardcastle will be killed … Again It...

The Seven Madmen

The Seven Madmen
  • Author(s): Roberto Arlt
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

Remo Erdosain’s Buenos Aires is a dim, seething, paranoid hive of hustlers and whores, scoundrels and madmen, and Erdosain feels his soul is as polluted as anything in this dingy city. Possessed by the directionlessness of the society around...

The Seven Torments of Amy and Craig

The Seven Torments of Amy and Craig
  • Author(s): Don Zolidis
  • Location(s): Wisconsin, Janesville
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): 1994

Janesville, Wisconsin (cold in the sense that there is no God) 1994 The worst thing that’s ever happened to Craig is also the best: Amy. Amy and Craig never should’ve gotten together. Craig is an awkward, Dungeons & Dragons-playing...

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