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The Scientist of Berlin

The Scientist of Berlin
  • Author(s): Daniel Pembrey
  • Location(s): California, Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller

From LA to Berlin, from present day to the 1940s, journey from glamorous Santa Monica to the deepest darkest corners of Nazi Germany. David Collins, a British private investigator living in LA, is hired by Geoff Hoffman, a billionaire...

The Scoop

The Scoop
  • Author(s): Cat Walker
  • Location(s): Europe
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Fiction, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2006

Casey Jones’s life is a mess. Her job bores her, her parents confuse her, and she has repeated nightmares about her ex-girlfriend. In a moment of madness she packs in her job and plans an adventure with her schoolfriend,...

The Screaming of the Innocent

The Screaming of the Innocent
  • Author(s): Unity Dow
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a twelve-year-old girl goes missing near her village, the local police tell her mother and the villagers that she has been taken by a wild animal. Five years later, a young government employee finds a box containing evidence...

The Scribe of Siena

The Scribe of Siena
  • Author(s): Melodie Winawer
  • Location(s): Siena
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1340s

Equal parts transporting love story and gripping historical conspiracy – think ‘The Girl with a Pearl Earring’ meets ‘Outlander’ – debut author Melodie Winawer takes readers deep into medieval Italy, where the past and present blur and a twenty-first...

The Sea

The Sea
  • Author(s): John Banville
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. The Grace family had appeared that long-ago summer as...

The Sea Cemetery

The Sea Cemetery
  • Author(s): Aslak Nore, Deborah Dawkin (Translator)
  • Location(s): Bergen, Oslo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

There is no love lost between the Oslo and Bergen branches of the powerful Falck family. So when its steely matriarch dies with no will to be found, the seeds of an inheritance dispute are sown. Yet her legacy...

The Sea Cloak

The Sea Cloak
  • Author(s): Nayrouz Qarmout
  • Location(s): Middle East
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘All the arts are close to us because they allow us to recontextualise, to understand where we are, what we are, who we are. The Sea Cloak by Nayrouz Qarmout re-contextualises things so we really understand the world from...

The Sea Gate

The Sea Gate
  • Author(s): Jane Johnson
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One house, two women, a lifetime of secrets… Following the death of her mother, Becky begins the sad task of sorting through her empty flat. Starting with the letters piling up on the doormat, she finds an envelope post-marked...

The Sea Stone Sisters

The Sea Stone Sisters
  • Author(s): Eleanor Buchanan
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s / Contemporary

The four of them had sat upon the fallen stones the night before Iris left. Like the stones in their rings, the sisters were meant to stay together. Now they were scattered across the world. 1931. When Iris Blackmore’s...

The Seagulls Laughter

The Seagulls Laughter
  • Author(s): Holly Bidgood
  • Location(s): Greenland, Shetland Islands
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s on

1973. Malik has always been something of a misfit. Born to a Greenlandic mother and an English-Explorer father, he has one eye of black and one of watery-blue. As a child his mother’s people refused to touch him and...

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