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The Shadow King

The Shadow King
  • Author(s): Maaza Mengiste
  • Location(s): Ethiopia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1935

ETHIOPIA. 1935. With the threat of Mussolini’s army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid. Her new employer, Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie’s army, rushes to mobilise his strongest men...

The Shadow of a Smile

The Shadow of a Smile
  • Author(s): Kachi A Ozumba
  • Location(s): Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Torn from his father and a loving sister, the young student Zuba is imprisoned for a crime he has not even thought about committing. His misfortune is to live in a world where corruption is rife and honest and...

The Shadow of Memory

The Shadow of Memory
  • Author(s): Connie Berry
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Victorian

As Kate Hamilton plans her upcoming wedding to Detective Inspector Tom Mallory, she is also assisting her colleague Ivor Tweedy with a project at the Netherfield Sanatorium, which is being converted into luxury townhouses. Kate and Ivor must appraise...

The Shadow of Perseus

The Shadow of Perseus
  • Author(s): Claire Heywood
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 100s BCE

Perfect for fans of Jennifer Saint, Elodie Harper and Natalie Haynes, author of Daughters of Sparta Claire Heywood returns with an imaginative reinterpretation of the myth of the great hero Perseus, bringing to life the voices of three women...

The Shadow of the Crescent Moon

The Shadow of the Crescent Moon
  • Author(s): Fatima Bhutto
  • Location(s): Pakistan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1999

Long-listed for the Baileys Women s Prize for Fiction, a lyrical novel set over the course of one morning in a small town in Pakistan Fatima Bhutto s stunning debut novel chronicles the lives of five young people trying...

The Shadows of Men

The Shadows of Men
  • Author(s): Abir Mukherjee
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay), Kolkata (Calcutta)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

Wyndham and Banerjee Book 5   Calcutta, 1923. When a Hindu theologian is found murdered in his home, the city is on the brink of all-out religious war. Can officers of the Imperial Police Force, Captain Sam Wyndham and...

The Shadows of Seville

The Shadows of Seville
  • Author(s): David Canford
  • Location(s): Seville
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Twentieth Century

A gripping and moving story of loss and love, of hatred and passion, and of horror and hope, set in Spain’s most evocative city during the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War and the following decades. Ramon flees rural...

The Shakespeare Secret

The Shakespeare Secret
  • Author(s): J L Carrell
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A modern serial killer – hunting an ancient secret. A woman is left to die as the rebuilt Globe theatre burns. Another woman is drowned like Ophelia, skirts swirling in the water. A professor has his throat slashed open...

The Shakespeare Sisters

The Shakespeare Sisters
  • Author(s): Juliet Greenwood
  • Location(s): Stratford-upon-Avon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Around WW2

Four motherless sisters, raised by a distant father in a crumbling, ivy-choked country estate. A terrible war on the horizon that will tear an ancient family apart. Stratford-upon-Avon, 1940. Rosalind Arden, born into one of the oldest families in...

The Shallows

The Shallows
  • Author(s): Holly Craig
  • Location(s): Queensland
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Her best friend is dead. Emma and Ariella, neighbours in one of Sydney’s most exclusive suburbs, appear to have it all—perfect homes, perfect husbands, perfect lives. But they both know dark secrets lurk beneath the surface and shallow waters...

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