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The Sorrow of Belgium

The Sorrow of Belgium
  • Author(s): Hugo Claus
  • Location(s): Belgium
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1939

Set in 1939, this is the story of Louis Seynaeve, a 10 year-old Flemish boy with a wild imagination. He is a student at a convent boarding school, but his chief interest is in his secret society, the Apostles....

The Sorrows of Young Werther

The Sorrows of Young Werther
  • Author(s): Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 18th Century

A key work in the German ‘Sturm und Drang’ movement, Johann Goethe’s autobiographical epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther is a defining moment in early Romanticism, which has influenced writers from Mary Shelley to Thomas Mann. This Penguin...

The Soul of Place

The Soul of Place
  • Author(s): Linda Lappin
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Creative Writing
  • Era(s): Not specified

In this engaging creative writing workbook, novelist and poet Linda Lappin presents a series of insightful exercises to help writers of all genres—literary travel writing, memoir, poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction—discover imagery and inspiration in the places they love. Lappin...

The Soul of the Rhino

The Soul of the Rhino
  • Author(s): Hemanta Mishra
  • Location(s): Nepal
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 2006

This new release is a spirited yet humble account of one man’s scientific career and personal journey to save the endangered rhinoceros in his native Nepal. For more information go to souloftherhino.com In early 2006, National Public Radio reported...

The Soul Summoner

The Soul Summoner
  • Author(s): Elicia Hyder
  • Location(s): North Carolina
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Paranormal
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Blessed–or cursed–with a connection to the souls of others, Sloan Jordan can see the best in people… and the worst. For twenty-seven years, she’s kept her ability a secret, but eleven young women have been murdered in the mountains...

The Soulmate Equation

The Soulmate Equation
  • Author(s): Christina Lauren
  • Location(s): San Diego
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jess is a numbers genius, but when it comes to love she’s had to accept there is no magic formula. Juggling a career with raising her daughter, it’s not surprising that her love life is. . . non-existent. When...

The Sound Mirror

The Sound Mirror
  • Author(s): Heidi James
  • Location(s): India, Kent
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

‘Tamara is going to kill her mother, but she isn’t the villain. Tamara just has to finish what began at her birth and put an end to the damage encoded in her blood. Quitting her job in Communications, Tamara...

The Sound of Her Voice

The Sound of Her Voice
  • Author(s): Nathan Blackwell
  • Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The body of a woman has been found on a pristine New Zealand beach – over a decade after she was murdered. Detective Matt Buchanan of the Auckland Police is certain it carries all the hallmarks of an unsolved...

The Sound of One Hand Clapping

The Sound of One Hand Clapping
  • Author(s): Richard Flanagan
  • Location(s): Tasmania
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Flanagan’s enthralling and powerful novel centres on a Slovenian couple, Bojan and Maria Buloh, and their daughter Sonja. The story begins in 1954, when Sonja is three, and ends in 1990, when she is in her late thirties ....

The Sound of One Hand Killing

The Sound of One Hand Killing
  • Author(s): Teresa Solana
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On assignment Eduard and Borja check out an exclusive meditation centre in the ritziest part of Barcelona, only to discover the director murdered, whacked in the head with a statuette of the Buddha. The violent death of a neighbour...

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