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Stanley and Elsie

Stanley and Elsie
  • Author(s): Nicola Upson
  • Location(s): Burghclere
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

The First World War is over, and in a quiet Hampshire village, artist Stanley Spencer is working on the commission of a lifetime, painting an entire chapel in memory of a life lost in the war to end all...

Starling Days

Starling Days
  • Author(s): Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
  • Location(s): London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Mina is staring over the edge of the George Washington Bridge when a patrol car drives up. She tries to convince the officers she’s not about to jump but they don’t believe her. Her husband, Oscar is called to...

Starting Over

Starting Over
  • Author(s): Sue Moorcroft
  • Location(s): Cambridgeshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

New home, new friends, new love. Can starting over be that simple? Tess Riddell reckons her beloved Freelander is more reliable than any man – especially her ex-fiancé, Olly Gray. She’s moving on from her old life and into...

Starting Over at the Little Cornish Beach House

Starting Over at the Little Cornish Beach House
  • Author(s): Nancy Barone
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sometimes moving out isn’t enough to move on… Having grown up in foster care, all Faith Hudson wants is a place to call home. So when Gabe, her ex, asks for a second chance and suggests she move back...

Starve Acre

Starve Acre
  • Author(s): Andrew Michael Hurley
  • Location(s): Yorkshire Dales
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Horror
  • Era(s): Modern

The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby’s son, Ewan, has died suddenly at the age of five. Starve Acre, their house by the moors, was to be full of life, but is now a haunted place....

Status Drift

Status Drift
  • Author(s): Ian Robinson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Past bad choices come to trouble an undercover cop After a month of rest in a secure location in Scotland, undercover officer DS Sam Batford is given the assignment of infiltrating an organised crime syndicate. But if Batford returns...

STEALING TIME

STEALING TIME
  • Author(s): Bud Craig
  • Location(s): Salford
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The PI tackles his most difficult case yet… Private Investigator Gus Keane is enjoying the quiet life when two events transpire to disrupt the peace. A man turns up on his doorstep claiming to be his half-brother, and a...

Stealth

Stealth
  • Author(s): Hugh Fraser
  • Location(s): Soho (London), London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1960s

London 1967. A working girl is brutally murdered in a Soho club. Rina Walker takes out the killer and attracts the attention of a sinister line-up of gangland enforcers with a great deal to prove. When a member of...

Steel and Shadows

Steel and Shadows
  • Author(s): Stuart Field
  • Location(s): London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Current

No-nonsense NYPD detective Sam McCall is investigating one of the deadliest and most complex cases of her career when the mysterious, yet infuriatingly intriguing, John Steel insinuates himself into the department. What appears at first to be the work...

Stewkey Blues

Stewkey Blues
  • Author(s): D J Taylor
  • Location(s): Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): present day

Stewkey Blues is a collection of new short stories rooted in Norfolk by one of its best-known writers. From Stiffkey’s Stewkey Blues (blue shelled cockles) in the north, to the wilds of Breckland in the south, this collection is...

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