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The Street Riding Years

The Street Riding Years
  • Author(s): Chris Scott
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1980s

’The Street Riding Years’ is a coming-of-age story about an urban motorcycle mercenary in 1980s London. It was a time when badly behaved messengers capitalised on London’s economic revival, when squatting was a legitimate solution to the housing crisis...

The Strode Venturer

The Strode Venturer
  • Author(s): Hammond Innes
  • Location(s): The Maldives
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Geoffrey Bailey is a man in search of a new job – and a new life. Then Strode & Company, City shipowners, make him a curious offer: find Peter Strode, the family black sheep, and make sure he returns...

The Student Conductor

The Student Conductor
  • Author(s): Robert Ford
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

The Study

The Study
  • Author(s): Kathy Garthwaite
  • Location(s): Vancouver Island
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

AN ENGROSSING MURDER MYSTERY FROM CANADA Many of the inhabitants of a Vancouver Island town are gathered at the local castle for the opening of a time capsule buried some forty years ago. But the event comes to an...

The Stupid Monkey

The Stupid Monkey
  • Author(s): Rodney Romig
  • Location(s): Hawai'i
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Renowned management consultant Dr. Dan Trix has been hired to market a luxury golf course in Hawaii. So why is someone trying to kill him? Trix is no stranger to violence. And he particularly doesn’t appreciate being attack by...

The Stylist

The Stylist
  • Author(s): Rosie Nixon
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Amber Green loves her job at Smith’s, the exclusive London boutique frequented by the rich, the famous and the stylish – and with stylist to the stars Mona Armstrong as a customer, there is never a dull moment. With...

The Succubus

The Succubus
  • Author(s): Vlado Žabot
  • Location(s): Slovenia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In an unnamed city shrouded in mist, Valent Kosmina is a retiree living quietly yet discontentedly with his doped-up, TV-addicted wife. To escape the claustrophobia of home and city, he masquerades as a man of means and takes to...

The Suffragette’s Daughter

The Suffragette’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Michelle Salter
  • Location(s): Hampshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920

A feminist reporter. A smalltown murder. A national scandal. The Great War has ended, the suffragettes have disbanded, and life for women is a far cry from the stylised world of the flapper girl. 1920 is a time of...

The Sufi Storyteller

The Sufi Storyteller
  • Author(s): Faiqa Mansab
  • Location(s): Afghanistan, Lahore, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary and looking back

In this contemporary murder mystery, an estranged mother and daughter urgently need to reconnect and navigate a world of Sufi story traditions to catch a killer, and to save each other. There is a dead woman in the library....

The Sugar Queen

The Sugar Queen
  • Author(s): Sarah Addison Allen
  • Location(s): North Carolina
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Magical Realism
  • Era(s): Modern

Twenty-seven-year-old Josey is sure of three things: winter in her North Carolina hometown is her favourite season; she’s a sorry excuse for a Southern belle; and sweets are best eaten in the privacy of her hidden closet. For while...

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