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Scarlet Ibis

Scarlet Ibis
  • Author(s): Gill Lewis
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Red asks, ‘Will we always be together?’ ‘Always,’ I say. ‘Just you and me in that little boat, watching the scarlet ibis flying back to the Caroni Swamp.’ Scarlet’s used to looking after her brother, Red. He’s special –...

Scenes from a Tragedy

Scenes from a Tragedy
  • Author(s): Carole Hailey
  • Location(s): The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

If you hurt me, I’ll hurt you. Not right away of course, because where’s the fun in that? When an empty passenger plane mysteriously crashes in the Lake District, journalist Carly Atherton is determined to get to the truth...

School for Skylarks

School for Skylarks
  • Author(s): Sam Angus
  • Location(s): London, Devon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Children, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2, 1939

It is 1939. When Lyla is evacuated from her home in London to her great-aunt’s enormous house in the West Country, she expects to be lonely. She has never been to school nor had any friends, and her parents...

Scorned

Scorned
  • Author(s): Denver Murphy
  • Location(s): St Albans
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): present

Inexperienced detective Ruby Knight is thrown a curve ball when a spate of burglaries results in a homicide. Commuters to the sleepy suburban town of St. Albans become alarmed when a series of aggravated burglaries begins. DC Knight and...

Screwed for Money

Screwed for Money
  • Author(s): Andrene Low
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1970s

Since puberty, Brenda has never had any issues with money: she’s always been well cared for by the old guys she’s latched onto. She provides the company and kudos, while they provide the cash. So for her to be...

Sea and Shore

Sea and Shore
  • Author(s): Emily Scott
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Food and Drink

Close your eyes and think of a place where the sky meets the sea; where the weather changes from moment to moment; and where the coastline is beautifully rugged and where surf breaks on endless sandy shores. This is...

Seahorses

Seahorses
  • Author(s): Ruth Khan
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1970s

Seahorses By Ruth Khan Synopsis Seahorses is a retro exploration of falling in love, drinking tea, family and village life, and grief, set in an England that existed for a long, hot, perfect summer in the 70s. It is...

Seahurst

Seahurst
  • Author(s): S A Harris
  • Location(s): Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Paranormal
  • Era(s): Present day

A gripping contemporary ghost story set on the Suffolk coast. Evie Meyer and her son Alfie flee from her abusive partner Seth in Toronto to spend New Year with her half-brother Luke at their late father’s summer home on...

Sealfinger

Sealfinger
  • Author(s): Heide Goody, Iain Grant
  • Location(s): Skegness
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

Some bodies just won’t stay buried. When a client tells Sam Applewhite she’s seen ghosts in the nearby graveyard, Sam dismisses it as the ramblings of an old woman. She’s got bigger things to worry about — keeping on...

Searching for Captain Wentworth

Searching for Captain Wentworth
  • Author(s): Jane Odiwe
  • Location(s): Bath, Lyme Regis
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Contemporary/Regency

When aspiring writer Sophie Elliot receives the keys to the family townhouse in Bath, it’s an invitation she can’t turn down, especially when she learns that she will be living next door to the house where Jane Austen lived....

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