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Sisters of the Lost Marsh

Sisters of the Lost Marsh
  • Author(s): Lucy Strange
  • Location(s): Romney Marsh, Kent
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Life is hard for Willa, Grace and Freya, and their three younger sisters. Six motherless girls working a farm, living in fear of their cruel father and the superstition that obsesses him – The Curse of Six Daughters. With...

Six Days

Six Days
  • Author(s): Dani Atkins
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two people. One love story. Six days.   He loves me… He loves me not… He loves me… Gemma knows that she and Finn are destined to be together. They are soulmates. But then, on their wedding day, he...

Sixteen Horses

Sixteen Horses
  • Author(s): Greg Buchanan
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Near the dying English seaside town of Ilmarsh, local police detective Alec Nichols discovers sixteen horses’ heads on a farm, each buried with a single eye facing the low winter sun. After forensic veterinarian Cooper Allen travels to the...

Sky Dancer

Sky Dancer
  • Author(s): Gill Lewis
  • Location(s): The Pennines
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Joe has always loved the moorlands above his home: the wildness, the freedom, the peace. But since his father died, everything has changed, and the moors are no longer a place of refuge. Now the whole community is divided...

Slade House

Slade House
  • Author(s): David Mitchell
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction, Horror
  • Era(s): 1970s to present

Turn down Slade Alley – narrow, dank and easy to miss, even when you’re looking for it. Find the small black iron door set into the right-hand wall. No handle, no keyhole, but at your touch it swings open....

Slam

Slam
  • Author(s): Nick Hornby
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): early 2000s

‘There was this time when everything seemed to have come together. And so obviously it was time to go and screw it all up.’ Sam is sixteen and a skater. Just so there are no terrible misunderstandings: skating =...

Sleeper

Sleeper
  • Author(s): J D Fennell
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Fantasy, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1940s

Sixteen-year-old Will Starling is pulled from the sea with no memory of his past. In his blazer is a strange notebook with a bullet lodged inside it: a bullet means for him. As London prepares for the Blitz, Will...

Sleeper: The Red Storm

Sleeper: The Red Storm
  • Author(s): J D Fennell
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1940s

1943.Sleeper spy Will Starling has been drafted in to the SOE, joining forces with the French Resistance in the fight against the Nazis; but Will’s memory is fractured and only occasional flashbacks reveal fragments of his past. Despite this,...

Sleeping Dogs

Sleeping Dogs
  • Author(s): Russ Thomas
  • Location(s): Sheffield
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

THE LIES OF THE PAST . . . When an anonymous tip lands on his desk, DS Adam Tyler is intrigued in spite of himself. The disappearance of a young mother twenty-four years ago was big news, but the...

Slough House

Slough House
  • Author(s): Mick Herron
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘A gripping thriller’ Ian Rankin Slough House – the crumbling office building to which failed spies, the ‘slow horses’, are banished – has been wiped from secret service records. Reeling from recent losses in their ranks, the slow horses...

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