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Someone Like Her

Someone Like Her
  • Location(s): Lahore, London, Multan
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Multan, Pakistan. A conservative city where an unmarried woman over the age of twenty-five is considered a curse by her family. Ayesha is twenty-seven. Independent and happily single, she has evaded an arranged marriage because of her family’s reduced...

Spanish Crossings

Spanish Crossings
  • Author(s): John Simmons
  • Location(s): London, Guernica, The Basque Country
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1937-1947

“Mother declared herself happy.” A woman’s life has been cast in shadow by her connection to the Spanish Civil War and the Basque child refugees from that war in the late 1930s. We follow Lorna from the days in...

Stealing Athena

Stealing Athena
  • Author(s): Karen Essex
  • Location(s): Athens, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 5th Century BC, Mid 17th Century

A novel of two smart women with the sculptures of the Parthenon as the central theme. Mary Elgin, who is the wife of Lord Elgin who brought the marbles (which now reside in the British Museum): Aspasia,who was the...

Stolen

Stolen
  • Author(s): Tess Stimson
  • Location(s): Florida, South London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

You thought she was safe. You were wrong… Alex knows her daughter would never wander off in a strange place. So when her three-year-old vanishes from an idyllic beach wedding, Alex immediately believes the worst. The hunt for Lottie...

Stone Cold Trouble

Stone Cold Trouble
  • Author(s): Amer Anwar
  • Location(s): West London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set in the heart of West London’s Asian community, this is the latest instalment in the unmissable ZAQ & JAGS series . . . Trying – and failing – to keep his head down and to stay out of...

Stone’s Fall

Stone’s Fall
  • Author(s): Iain Pears
  • Location(s): London, Paris, Venice
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century to Early 20th Century

Why did John Stone die,having fallen from a window at his London home? This is a complex mystery, which starts in London in 1909 and gradually the search for the truth lies in going to Paris in 1890, and...

Strange Air

Strange Air
  • Author(s): Tom Brown
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century, Modern

Essential reading for anyone fascinated by the history of the Crystal Palace – and for fans of mind-boggling Victorian railway history . . . It is the mid-19th century, and London is crying out for a cure to the...

Summer Secrets

Summer Secrets
  • Author(s): Jane Green
  • Location(s): London, Nantucket
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

June, 1998. At twenty-seven, Cat Coombs is struggling. She lives in London, works as a journalist, and parties hard. When she discovers the identity of the father she never knew she had, it sends her into a spiral. She...

Swear Down

Swear Down
  • Author(s): Russ Litten
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

HACKNEY and the wider area: A young gang leader is found stabbed on a Hackney estate – but two people confess to the murder.Ndekwe, an ambitious, newly promoted Detective Sergeant within a subtly racist police force, believes the more...

Sweet Caress

Sweet Caress
  • Author(s): William Boyd
  • Location(s): Berlin, France, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s-1950s

Long listed for the Walter Scott Prize 2016 Amory’s first memory is of her father doing a handstand. She has memories of him returning on leave during the First World War. But his absences, both actual and emotional, are...

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