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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...

The Shopgirl of Ironbridge

The Shopgirl of Ironbridge
  • Author(s): Mollie Walton
  • Location(s): Shrewsbury
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1890s

Ironbridge, 1892. When seventeen-year-old Maria Keay is offered an exciting job in a department store in Shrewsbury, she is determined to follow her dream, even if that means leaving behind her childhood sweetheart, Charlie. At first, Maria’s new life...

The Shore

The Shore
  • Author(s): Sara Taylor
  • Location(s): Virginia
  • Genre(s): Fiction

The Shore. A collection of small islands sticking out from the coast of Virginia into the Atlantic Ocean that has been home to generations of fierce and resilient women. Sanctuary to some but nightmare to others, it’s a place...

The Show Woman

The Show Woman
  • Author(s): Emma Cowing
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Earlier 20th Century

1910. With the disappearance of her mother and the sudden death of her father, Lena instantly loses any security she has within the circus she has known all her life. She is advised to sell the carousel her father...

The Shrine

The Shrine
  • Author(s): Lesley Thomson
  • Location(s): Gloucestershire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery

A decades-old murder. A haunting legacy. A plot for revenge. Stella Darnell knows her partner Jack is hiding something. After following him one evening, she discovers he’s been consulting a psychic in a desperate attempt to reach his dead...

The Shrouded Path

The Shrouded Path
  • Author(s): Sarah Ward
  • Location(s): Derbyshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1957 / 2014

The past won’t stay buried forever. November, 1957: Six teenage girls walk in the churning Derbyshire mists, the first chills of winter in the air. Their voices carrying across the fields, they follow the old train tracks into the...

The Siberian Dilemma

The Siberian Dilemma
  • Author(s): Martin Cruz Smith
  • Location(s): Russia, Irkutsk
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Investigator Arkady Renko, described as ‘one of the most compelling figures in modern fiction’ by USA Today, finds himself travelling deep into Siberia when journalist Tatiana Petrovna disappears on a case. Journalist Tatiana Petrovna has disappeared. Arkady Renko, iconic...

The Sicilian Method

The Sicilian Method
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

In The Sicilian Method, Andrea Camilleri’s twenty-sixth novel in the Inspector Montalbano mystery series, a troubling murder invesitgation may see Montalbano find his answers on a theatre’s stage . . . ‘ven the contents of his fridge are described...

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