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The Storyteller’s Secret

The Storyteller’s Secret
  • Author(s): Sejal Badani
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000

From the bestselling author of Trail of Broken Wings comes an epic story of the unrelenting force of love, the power of healing, and the invincible desire to dream. Nothing prepares Jaya, a New York journalist, for the heartbreak...

The Storytellers

The Storytellers
  • Author(s): Caron McKinlay
  • Location(s): Mondello, Edinburgh, Liverpool
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present Day

Trapped between life and the afterlife, three women meet and share their stories while discovering the truth about the men in their lives—and about themselves. Suspended in an eerie state of limbo, an entity called the Gatekeeper tells Nikki,...

The Strain

The Strain
  • Author(s): Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): early 21st century

A Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All window shades are pulled down. All lights are out. All communication channels have gone quiet. Crews on the ground...

The Straits of Treachery

The Straits of Treachery
  • Author(s): Richard Hopton
  • Location(s): Messina
  • Genre(s): Historical, Adventure, Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 1800s

September 1810. Raids across the Straits of Messina to disrupt preparations for the French invasion of the island have been repulsed with heavy casualties. George Warne, a bright young British officer, suspects treachery back in Messina, and is ordered...

The Straits Quartet

The Straits Quartet
  • Author(s): Dawn Farnham
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Drawing on real-life historical personalities and actual places from 19th-century Singapore, author Dawn Farnham brings to life the heady atmosphere of Old Singapore where piracy, crime, triads and tigers are commonplace. This intense and passionate 4-volume romance follows the...

The Stranding

The Stranding
  • Author(s): Kate Sawyer
  • Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Dystopian
  • Era(s): Present and future

Ruth lives in the heart of the city. Working, drinking, falling in love: the rhythm of her vivid and complicated life is set against a background hum of darkening news reports from which she deliberately turns away. When a...

The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
  • Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Mystery
  • Era(s): Later 19th Century

In September of 1884, Robert Louis Stevenson, then in his mid-thirties, moved with his family to Bournemouth, a resort on the southern coast of England, where in the brief span of 23 months he revised A Child’s Garden of...

The Stranger

The Stranger
  • Author(s): Saskia Sarginson
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Immersive, gripping, will pull at your heartstrings’ Gilly Macmillan, international bestselling author We all have our secrets. Eleanor Rathmell has kept one her whole life. But when her husband dies and a stranger arrives at her door, her safe...

The Stranger

The Stranger
  • Author(s): Kate Riordan
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1940s

Cornwall, 1940. In the hushed hours of deepest night a young woman is found washed up on the rocks. Was it a tragic accident? Or should the residents of Penhallow have been more careful about whom they invited in?...

The stranger

The stranger
  • Author(s): Albert Camus
  • Location(s): Algeria
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1940s

Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed “the nakedness of man faced with the absurd.” First published in English in 1946; now in a...

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