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The Sentence

The Sentence
  • Author(s): Louise Erdrich
  • Location(s): Minneapolis - St Paul
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2019-2020

In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage and of a woman’s relentless errors. Louise Erdrich’s latest novel,...

The Sentinel (Jack Reacher 25)

The Sentinel (Jack Reacher 25)
  • Author(s): Lee Child, Andrew Child
  • Location(s): Nashville
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The edge-of-your-seat, heart-in-mouth new Jack Reacher thriller for 2021 – his 25th adventure. No one’s bigger than Jack Reacher. Jack Reacher gets off the bus in a sleepy no-name town outside Nashville, Tennessee. He plans to grab a cup...

The Septembers of Shiraz

The Septembers of Shiraz
  • Author(s): Dalia Sofer
  • Location(s): Shiraz
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1979 onwards

In the aftermath of the Iranian revolution, rare-gem dealer Isaac Amin is arrested, wrongly accused of being a spy. Terrified by his disappearance, his family must reconcile a new world of cruelty and chaos with the collapse of everything...

The Serbian Dane

The Serbian Dane
  • Author(s): Leif Davidsen
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Iranian Mullahs have offered a $4 million reward to the person who carries out their fatwa, the death sentence of the internationally acclaimed author Sara Santanda. A Danish daily newspaper has in cooperation with Danish PEN Centre invited her...

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...

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