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The Smoke

The Smoke
  • Author(s): Lars D H Hedbor
  • Location(s): New York State
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Revolutionary

They should have been enemies, but they became brothers… Joseph Killeen was sent to eliminate the threat of savage enemies in the forests of New-York, but when he meets Ginawo and his peaceful village of Skarure, he realizes that...

The Smuggler’s Apprentice of Guatemala

The Smuggler’s Apprentice of Guatemala
  • Author(s): Lachlan Page
  • Location(s): Guatemala
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In London, the clandestine digital corridors of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) are thrown open as a list of intelligence officers is leaked online. With the identities of intelligence officers blown, and a secretive smuggling network developing in Guatemala,...

The Snake Stone

The Snake Stone
  • Era(s): Early-to-mid nineteenth century

“Istanbul, 1838. In his palace on the Bosphorus, Sultan Mahmud II is dying and the city swirls with rumors and alarms. The unexpected arrival of a French archaeologist determined to track down lost Byzantine treasures throws the Greek community...

The Snakes

The Snakes
  • Author(s): Sadie Jones
  • Location(s): Burgundy-Franche-Comté
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Bea and Dan, recently married, rent out their tiny flat to escape London for a few precious months. Driving through France they visit Bea’s dropout brother Alex at the hotel he runs in Burgundy. Disturbingly, they find him all...

The Snow Angel

The Snow Angel
  • Author(s): Lauren St John
  • Location(s): Nairobi, Africa, Kenya, Scottish Highlands
  • Era(s): N/A

Lauren St John’s stunning Christmas classic is about forgotten children, the power of nature to heal us and a girl who will climb mountains in search for a place to call home. Growing up in vibrant, crowded Nairobi, Makena...

The Snow Angel

The Snow Angel
  • Author(s): Anki Edvinsson
  • Location(s): Sweden
  • Genre(s): Thriller

A teenage suicide. A murdered pharmacist. A missing girl. Is the obvious connection the right one? When a boy leaps to his death from a bridge in the northern town of Umeå, Sweden, police discover drugs scattered in the...

The Snow Ball

The Snow Ball
  • Author(s): Brigid Brophy
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

First published in 1964, The Snow Ball is arguably Brigid Brophy’s most brilliant fictional performance, consummately melding her avid interests in opera, sexuality and psychology. It is New Year’s Eve in London. The occasion is a costume ball on...

The Snow Fox Diaries

The Snow Fox Diaries
  • Author(s): Jan Mazzoni
  • Location(s): Exmoor
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present

When passion becomes obsession, anything can happen… Chic, intelligent, highly motivated and unexpectedly unemployed. AND soon to be forty. Not a situation Katie Tremain finds easy to cope with, especially as it gives her time to notice that she...

The Snow Goose

The Snow Goose
  • Author(s): Paul Gallico, Angela Barrett (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Essex
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1940

Philip Rhayader lives alone in an abandoned lighthouse on the desolate Great Marsh of Essex. One afternoon, a hauntingly beautiful child, Fritha, visits Rhayader, bringing with her an injured snow goose. At first Fritha is scared of Rhayader, with...

The Snow Hare

The Snow Hare
  • Author(s): Paula Lichtarowicz
  • Location(s): Siberia, Poland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

An unforgettable love story set in Siberia during the Second World War and of living with impossible choices. Lena knows she hasn’t got long left. While a nurse administers morphine to ease her pain, she relives her life. Growing...

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