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Speak of the Devil

Speak of the Devil
  • Author(s): Rose Wilding
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

All of us knew him. One of us killed him… Seven women stand in shock in a seedy hotel room; a man’s severed head sits in the centre of the floor. Each of the women – the wife, the...

Spice

Spice
  • Author(s): Robert A Webster
  • Location(s): Cambodia, England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970 - present day

This thrilling unpredictable, yet sometimes hilarious quest will have you mesmerised. Ben Bakewell, the master pâtissier at one of London’s leading restaurants, befriends Ravuth, a refugee from the killing fields of Cambodia who fled to England as the Khmer...

Spilt Milk

Spilt Milk
  • Author(s): Amanda Hodgkinson
  • Location(s): Suffolk, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): First half 20th Century

1913. Unmarried sisters Nellie and Vivian Marsh live an impoverished existence in a tiny cottage on the banks of the Little River in Suffolk. Their life is quiet and predictable, until a sudden flood throws up a strange fish...

Spring Blossoms at Mill Grange

Spring Blossoms at Mill Grange
  • Author(s): Jenny Kane
  • Location(s): Somerset
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Helen Rogers has been lying to herself over her feelings for Tom since the moment they met. And for good reason; not only are they colleagues, working together with the archaeology groups at Mill Grange, but her sabbatical is...

Spring Comes to Emmerdale

Spring Comes to Emmerdale
  • Author(s): Pamela Bell
  • Location(s): Yorkshire Dales
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW1

‘Amazing! All the familiar names here, not least, the Dingles!‘ – Amazon reviewer, 5 stars World War I wages on, and the families of Emmerdale are trying their best to move on from tragedy, while the effects of war...

Spring Marrying

Spring Marrying
  • Author(s): Jon Rosebank
  • Location(s): Torbay
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Edwardian

Jimmy Blackbridge is the deckhand on a small sailing trawler, fishing out of Brixham, Devon in 1912. He is coming into harbour after a storm, looking on the quayside for his beloved Alice. He will have to tell her...

Springtime at the Cider Kitchen

Springtime at the Cider Kitchen
  • Author(s): Fay Keenan
  • Location(s): Somerset
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Caroline Hemingway can’t help but feel a little strange watching her ex sister-in-law marrying the owner of Carter’s Cider Farm, but she’s delighted Anna’s found happiness after the death of her late husband, and Caroline’s brother, James. If only...

Square Haunting

Square Haunting
  • Author(s): Francesca Wade
  • Location(s): Bloomsbury
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): 1920s and 1930s

Mecklenburgh Square, on the radical fringes of interwar Bloomsbury, was home to activists, experimenters and revolutionaries; among them were the modernist poet H. D., detective novelist Dorothy L. Sayers, classicist Jane Harrison, economic historian Eileen Power, and writer and...

Squealer

Squealer
  • Author(s): Sadie Norman
  • Location(s): King's Lynn
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

A young female detective must prove her mettle on a murder case On finding a local woman’s dead body, Norfolk police look closely at the man who’d made her life a misery: the bad-tempered ex-husband. The victim, Yvonne, had...

Stage Fright

Stage Fright
  • Author(s): Sara Downing
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2012

Life isn’t going too well for Phoebe Grey. Newly single and unemployed, she desperately fills her evenings with meals-for-one, the TV, Arnie, her cat – and rehearsals for an amateur dramatic play, a futuristic rewrite of Jane Austen’s ‘Pride...

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