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The Stranger From The Sea (Poldark Book 8)

The Stranger From The Sea (Poldark Book 8)
  • Author(s): Winston Graham
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 18th Century

Cornwall 1810. The Poldark family awaits the return of Ross from his mission to Wellington’s army in Portugal. But their ordered existence ends with Jeremy Poldark’s dramatic rescue of the stranger from the sea. Stephen Carrington’s arrival in the...

The Stranger in Room Six

The Stranger in Room Six
  • Author(s): Jane Corry
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

You may not know the stranger in room six. But they know everything about you. It’s been fifteen years since Belinda was convicted of her husband’s murder. Now, she’s ready for her life to begin again, and she’s set...

The Stranger in the Woods

The Stranger in the Woods
  • Author(s): Michael Finkel
  • Location(s): The Maine Woods
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1963-1990

Many people dream of escaping modern life, but most will never act on it. This is the remarkable true story of a man who lived alone in the woods of Maine for 27 years, making this dream a reality–not...

The Stranger Times

The Stranger Times
  • Author(s): C K McDonnell
  • Location(s): Manchester
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

There are dark forces at work in our world (and in Manchester in particular), so thank God The Stranger Times is on hand to report them . . . A weekly newspaper dedicated to the weird and the wonderful...

The Stranger’s Guide To Talliston

The Stranger’s Guide To Talliston
  • Author(s): John Tarrow
  • Location(s): Great Dunmow
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): Present Day / Historical

Abandoned and alone, thirteen-year-old Joe’s world is shattered when he enters a deserted council house in Great Dunmow and becomes trapped within a labyrinth protecting the last magical places on earth. There, Joe discovers The Stranger’s Guide, a cryptic...

The Stranger’s Guide To Talliston [Second Edition]

The Stranger’s Guide To Talliston [Second Edition]
  • Author(s): John Tarrow
  • Location(s): Great Dunmow
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Present Day

Abandoned and alone, thirteen-year-old Joe’s world is shattered when he enters a deserted council house in Great Dunmow and becomes trapped within a labyrinth protecting the last magical places on earth. There, Joe discovers The Stranger’s Guide, a cryptic...

The Strangeworlds Travel Agency

The Strangeworlds Travel Agency
  • Author(s): L D Lapinski
  • Location(s): Retford, Nottinghamshire
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Pack your suitcase for a magical adventure! Perfect for fans of The Train to Impossible Places and Pages & Co. At the Strangeworlds Travel Agency, each suitcase transports you to a different world. All you have to do is...

The Strangler Vine

The Strangler Vine
  • Author(s): M J Carter
  • Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1830s

Calcutta 1837. The East India Company rules India – or most of it: and its most notorious and celebrated son, Xavier Mountstuart, has gone missing. William Avery, a down-at-heel junior officer in the Company’s army, is sent to find...

The Stray Cats of Homs

The Stray Cats of Homs
  • Author(s): Eva Nour
  • Location(s): Homs
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘A cat has seven souls in Arabic. In English cats have nine lives. You probably have both nine lives and seven souls, because otherwise I don’t know how you’ve made it this far.’ Sami’s childhood is much like any...

The Strays of Paris

The Strays of Paris
  • Author(s): Jane Smiley
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From Jane Smiley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres, The Strays of Paris is a captivating story of a group of extraordinary animals – and one little boy – whose lives cross paths in Paris. Paras is...

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