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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...

The Sealwoman’s Gift

The Sealwoman’s Gift
  • Author(s): Sally Magnusson
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 17th Century

1627. In a notorious historical event, pirates raided the coast of Iceland and abducted 400 people into slavery in Algiers. Among them a pastor, his wife, and their children. In her acclaimed debut novel Sally Magnusson imagines what history...

The Seamstress Of Warsaw

The Seamstress Of Warsaw
  • Author(s): Rebecca Mascull
  • Location(s): Poland, London, Warsaw
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Daring, tragic, haunting, and unforgettable – Mascull is a superb writer. – Louisa Treger , author of The Dragon Lady 1940 London A man learns a shocking truth about his past. Warsaw A mother writes a diary as the...

The Search

The Search
  • Author(s): Nora Roberts
  • Location(s): Orcas Island, Washington State
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

It’s been a few years since Fiona Bristow moved to Orcas Island to rebuild her life. Within the small, tight-knit island community she’s built up a canine rescue centre that trains dogs to track missing persons in Washington’s vast...

The Search for Othella Savage

The Search for Othella Savage
  • Author(s): Foday Mannah
  • Location(s): Scotland, Freetown
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When one of their own is found unconscious in the boot of her car, Scotland’s Sierra Leonean community is cast into a state of shock. And the young woman’s death a few days later sparks a murder investigation. Though...

The Search Party

The Search Party
  • Author(s): Hannah Richell
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Five old friends. One glamping weekend. A storm that will change everything. Max and Annie Kingsley have left the London rat race to set up a glamping site in the wilds of Cornwall. They invite old university friends –...

The Searcher

The Searcher
  • Author(s): Tana French
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a remote Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force, and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot...

The Season A Novel

The Season A Novel
  • Author(s): Liam Concannon
  • Location(s): Catalonia
  • Genre(s): LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): Present

When Finbar O’Sullivan arrives in Calamendrera with his partner Lance to celebrate his thirty-fifth birthday, he has the perfect life. Yet he begins to realise it has been a life lived without adventure. Fin makes up his mind to...

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