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The Santorini Writing Retreat

The Santorini Writing Retreat
  • Author(s): Eva Glyn
  • Location(s): Santorini
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Three women, one writing retreat, endless possibilities… Bestselling author Jessica Rose needs to escape from a terrible secret that’s robbed her of her creativity. Could leading a retreat on a gorgeous Greek island be just what she needs? Coming...

The Sari Shop

The Sari Shop
  • Author(s): Rupa Bajwa
  • Location(s): Amritsar
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Young Ramchand rushes through the dusty streets of Amritsar, once again late for work. Chastised by his boss, he takes his place among the cottons and silks of the sari shop, selling yards of cloth to the wealthy and...

The Sasquatch Murder

The Sasquatch Murder
  • Author(s): Jeffery Viles
  • Location(s): Pacific Northwest
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

They’re out there, you know–those bipedal hominids commonly called Sasquatch. This imaginative, tightly woven tale explains just how those creatures came to be traipsing around in the big trees surrounding Mount St. Helens. While local oddballs and elbow-benders talk...

The Sat Nav Diaries

The Sat Nav Diaries
  • Author(s): Adrian Sturrock
  • Location(s): Europe
  • Genre(s): Humour, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Current

“I had an idea for a road trip; a sports car I shouldn’t have bought; and a wife to point out that what looks entirely feasible on a scaled map can actually be quite a long way away.” This...

The Satanic Mechanic

The Satanic Mechanic
  • Author(s): Sally Andrew
  • Location(s): Karoo
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Food and Drink
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Tannie Maria Mystery 2 Meet Tannie Maria – recipe writer turned crime fighter – and before she has time to take her Venus Chocolate Cake out of the oven, our glorious heroine finds herself embroiled in another mystery. In...

The Satapur Moonstone

The Satapur Moonstone
  • Author(s): Sujata Massey
  • Location(s): Western Ghats
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Sahyadri mountains, where the princely state of Satapur is tucked away. A curse seems to have fallen upon Satapur’s royal family, whose maharaja died of a sudden illness shortly...

The Satisfaction Café

The Satisfaction Café
  • Author(s): Kathy Wang
  • Location(s): California, Taiwan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An engrossing and original story about a woman who moves from Taiwan to California and builds an unexpected life there, for readers of Olive Kitteridge and Hello Beautiful. Joan Liang’s life is a series of surprising developments: she never...

The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

As the countdown to Mma Makutsi’s wedding begins, all is not as it should be at the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency. While investigating unpleasant occurrences on a southern cattle-post, Mma Ramotswe, always on the side of the weak against...

The Saturday Evening Girls Club

The Saturday Evening Girls Club
  • Author(s): Jane Healey
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1908

In Boston’s North End, four immigrant women leave childhood behind—but never one another. For four young immigrant women living in Boston’s North End in the early 1900s, escaping tradition doesn’t come easy. But at least they have one another...

The Sauceror’s Apprentice

The Sauceror’s Apprentice
  • Author(s): Paul Clarke
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Present Day

Randul, a young Veddah tribesman and expert in the flora and fauna of the forests of Sri Lanka, unexpectedly discovers four enormous Padparadscha sapphires. His simple life suddenly becomes more complicated. From the Sinharaja Forest of Sri Lanka to...

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