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Somerville’s War

Somerville’s War
  • Author(s): Andrew Duncan
  • Location(s): New Forest, Hampshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

The strange brigadier who hardly speaks… Leo, his feisty pilot daughter… Labrador, the vengeful Pole… Henry Dunning-Green, Leo’s boring suitor… Adrian Russell, the treacherous master spy… … All linked by SOE Somerville, the top secret Second World War finishing...

Something About the Stars

Something About the Stars
  • Author(s): Katharine E Smith
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): present-day

“Once again, Katharine Smith really brings Cornwall to life in this series. The characters are as engaging as ever, and even though this is number six in the series, the story has not tired at all. In fact, I...

Something Brewing in Cornwall

Something Brewing in Cornwall
  • Author(s): Tommy Barnes
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Food and Drink, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Four years after establishing Braslou Bière, a British microbrewery in the heart of French wine country, Covid hits and Tommy and Rose Barnes are forced to make the agonising decision to return to England. Landing in a cramped cottage...

Something to Tell You

Something to Tell You
  • Author(s): Lucy Diamond
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

When Frankie stumbles upon an unopened letter from her late mother, she’s delighted to have one last message from her . . . until she reads the contents and discovers the truth about her birth. Brimming with questions, she...

Song for Ria

Song for Ria
  • Author(s): Michelle Shine
  • Location(s): England, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

Talented composer Alison Connaught has spent her career writing music for big names, but when her actress daughter, Ria, dies from an overdose, alison is numb and an no longer compose. Haunted by the feeling that she had somehow...

Song of the Huntress

Song of the Huntress
  • Author(s): Lucy Holland
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 60AD

The bestselling author of Sistersong transforms the story of Herla and the Wild Hunt into a rich, feminist fantasy in this stunning tale of two great warriors, a war-torn land, and an ancient magic that is slowly awakening. Britain,...

Sorry for the Dead

Sorry for the Dead
  • Author(s): Nicola Upson
  • Location(s): Sussex Downs
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1915, 1930s

Summer, 1915: a young woman falls to her death at Charleston Farmhouse on the Sussex Downs. But was it an accident? Twenty years later, Josephine Tey is faced with the accusation that it was murder, and that she was...

South of Darkness

South of Darkness
  • Author(s): John Marsden
  • Location(s): London, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1700s

Thirteen-year-old Barnaby Fletch is a bag-and-bones orphan in London in the late 1700s. Barnaby lives on his wits and ill-gotten gains, on streets seething with the press of the throng and shadowed by sinister figures. Life is a precarious...

Sovereign (The Shardlake series)

Sovereign (The Shardlake series)
  • Author(s): C J Sansom
  • Location(s): York
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 16th Century

Autumn, 1541. King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to attend an extravagant submission of his rebellious subjects in York. Already in the city are lawyer Matthew Shardlake and his assistant Jack Barak....

Sparkling Like Snow: Book Eight of the Coming Back to Cornwall series

Sparkling Like Snow: Book Eight of the Coming Back to Cornwall series
  • Author(s): Katharine E Smith
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): present-day

“A lovely joyful read! And it really is quite magical!” “It’s such an engrossing read that captures the imagination, which is so typical of all of Katharine’s novels. Very well written and thought out.” Christmas is coming, and the...

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