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The Sleeping Beauties

The Sleeping Beauties
  • Author(s): Lucy Ashe
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1945

May 1945 and at long last, Rosamund Caradon is feeling optimistic. As she returns the last few evacuees to London from her Devonshire manor, she vows to protect dance-obsessed daughter Jasmine from further peril. But a chance meeting with...

The Sleeping Dictionary

The Sleeping Dictionary
  • Author(s): Sujata Massey
  • Location(s): West Bengal
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930

From an award-winning novelist, a stunning portrait of late Raj India–a sweeping saga and a love story set against a background of huge political and cultural upheaval. YOU ASK FOR MY NAME, THE REAL ONE, AND I CANNOT TELL....

The Sleepwalker

The Sleepwalker
  • Author(s): Joseph Knox
  • Location(s): Greater Manchester
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

As a series of rolling blackouts plunge the city into darkness, Detective Aidan Waits sits on an abandoned hospital ward, watching a mass murderer slowly die. Transferred from his usual night shift duties and onto protective custody, he has...

The Sleepwalkers

The Sleepwalkers
  • Author(s): Scarlett Thomas
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Still reeling from the chaos of their wedding, Evelyn and Richard arrive on an idyllic Greek island for their honeymoon. It’s the end of the season and out at sea a storm is brewing. They check in to an...

The Slip

The Slip
  • Author(s): Lucas Schaefer
  • Location(s): Austin, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Austin, Texas: It’s the summer of 1998, and there’s a new face on the scene at Terry Tucker’s Boxing Gym. Sixteen-year-old Nathaniel Rothstein has never felt comfortable in his own skin, but under the tutelage of a swaggering, Haitian-born...

The Slopes of War

The Slopes of War
  • Author(s): Norah A Perez
  • Location(s): West Virginia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): American Civil War

Buck Summerhill, a young soldier from West Virginia, faces the horrors of the Battle of Gettysburg knowing that his two cousins, Custis and Mason, may be fighting against him in the Army of northern Virginia.

The Slow Lane Walkers Club

The Slow Lane Walkers Club
  • Author(s): Rosa Temple
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

A feel-good tale of unlikely friendship, community and learning to live life in the slow lane, perfect for fans of Clare Pooley and Hazel Prior Daniel isn’t used to living life in the slow lane. So when he finds...

The Slow Road to Tehran: A Revelatory Bike Ride through Europe and the Middle East

The Slow Road to Tehran: A Revelatory Bike Ride through Europe and the Middle East
  • Author(s): Rebecca Lowe
  • Location(s): Middle East
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2015

One woman, one bike and one richly entertaining, perception-altering journey of discovery. In 2015, as the Syrian War raged and the refugee crisis reached its peak, Rebecca Lowe set off on her bicycle across the Middle East. Driven by...

The Slowworm’s Song

The Slowworm’s Song
  • Author(s): Andrew Miller
  • Location(s): Northern Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1982

By the Costa Award-winning author of PURE, a profound and tender tale of guilt, a search for atonement and the hard, uncertain work of loving. ‘The writing is near perfect. But the novel’s excellence goes far beyond this ....

The Small Museum

The Small Museum
  • Author(s): Jody Cooksley
  • Location(s): London, Dorset
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Victorian

A chilling historical mystery set against the gothic backdrop of Victorian London, The Small Museum won the Caledonia Novel Award in 2023 and is inspired by the extraordinary treasure trove of curiosities that is the Hunterian Museum in London....

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