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The Shell House Detectives

The Shell House Detectives
  • Author(s): Emylia Hall
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Shell House Detectives Mystery, Book 1 Welcome to the coastal paradise of Porthpella, where murder lurks among the dunes… Late one night, a distraught young man knocks on the door of retired and recently widowed Ally Bright’s remote...

The Shell: Memoirs of a Hidden Observer

The Shell: Memoirs of a Hidden Observer
  • Author(s): Mustafa Khalifa
  • Location(s): Palmyra
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

The work of a modern-day Sozhenitsyn that exposes acts of violence and brutality committed by the Syrian regime. This compelling first novel is the astonishing story of a Syrian political prisoner of consciencean atheist mistaken for a radical Islamistwho...

The Sheltered Quarter: A Tale of a Boyhood in Mecca

The Sheltered Quarter: A Tale of a Boyhood in Mecca
  • Author(s): Hamza Bogary
  • Location(s): Mecca
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1st half 20th century

Hamza Bogary describes a bygone way of life that has now irreversibly disappeared. He speaks of life in Mecca before the advent of oil. Only partly autobiographical, the memoir is nevertheless rich in remembered detail based on Bogary’s early...

The Sheltering Desert

The Sheltering Desert
  • Author(s): Henno Martin
  • Location(s): Namibia
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): WW2

Threatened with Internment for the duration of World War II, two young German geologists, Henno Martin and Hermann Korn, sought refuge in the Namib Desert and lived a Robinson Crusoe existence for two and a half years. How they...

The Shepherd’s Hut

The Shepherd’s Hut
  • Author(s): Tim Winton
  • Location(s): Western Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

For years Jaxie Clackton has dreaded going home. His beloved mum is dead, and he wishes his dad was too, until one terrible moment leaves his life stripped to nothing. No one ever told Jaxie Clackton to be careful...

The Shifting Pools

The Shifting Pools
  • Author(s): Zoe Duncnan
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Magical Realism
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Fleeing war and the death of her family, Eve has carefully constructed a new life for herself in London. Yet she is troubled by vivid, disturbing dreams, symptoms of her traumatic past, which intrude increasingly on her daily life....

The Shining City

The Shining City
  • Author(s): Joan Fallon
  • Location(s): Córdoba
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 10th century

Everything that Qasim has worked for is about to be destroyed. His youngest son has fallen in love with the caliph’s favourite concubine, and if he is caught, he will suffer the death penalty and the rest of the...

The Ship

The Ship
  • Author(s): Antonia Honeywell
  • Location(s): World, London
  • Genre(s): Dystopian, Suspense
  • Era(s): Future

Welcome to London, but not as you know it. Oxford Street burned for three weeks; Regent’s Park has been bombed; the British Museum is occupied by those with nowhere else to go. Lalla has grown up sheltered from the...

The Ship of Shadows

The Ship of Shadows
  • Author(s): Maria Kuzniar
  • Location(s): Seville, Morocco
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Middle Ages

The sweeping, sparkling first book in a brand new series that will delight fans of The Polar Bear Explorer’s Club and The Girl of Ink and Stars. “A feast for the imagination . . . an enthralling adventure.” –...

The Shipyard

The Shipyard
  • Author(s): Juan Carlos Onetti
  • Location(s): Uruguay
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

‘I am an excellent judge of men and I am sure I will not regret my choice. But it is essential you get to know the company as soon as possible. The post I am offering you is that...

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