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Sticks and Stones

Sticks and Stones
  • Author(s): Katharine E Smith
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): present-day

“Excellent yet again. How can you not fall in love with Cornwall and these characters. Can’t wait to read the next one.” “The last paragraph has you wanting the next chapter in the characters’ lives. I await the next...

Still Life

Still Life
  • Author(s): A S Byatt
  • Location(s): Cambridge, Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Frederica Potter arrives at Cambridge University greedy for knowledge, sex and love. It isn’t long before she becomes infatuated with a mysterious and controlling poet. Back in Yorkshire, her sister Stephanie abandons academia and is confronted with the boredom...

Still Waters Run

Still Waters Run
  • Author(s): Mark West
  • Location(s): Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

End of season, end of innocence… In late summer, sixteen-year-old Dan and his recently divorced mother head to a Norfolk seaside town’s holiday park for a vacation. Shy Dan soon strikes up a friendship with a girl of his...

Stitched Up

Stitched Up
  • Author(s): Shahed Yousaf
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Why would anyone want to work with thieves, murderers and rapists? Told from the inside out, this is a harrowing, humorous and hard-hitting tale of life behind bars by a prison doctor who has seen it all. Literally. Dr...

Stolen Brilliance

Stolen Brilliance
  • Author(s): Michael G Colburn
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Victorian

From London’s cobblestone streets to the far edges of the British empire… one woman rewrites the rules of crime. Former street urchin Edith Black has risen through the ranks of Victorian London’s underworld. Mentored by the notorious Mrs. Hill,...

Stone Tomb

Stone Tomb
  • Author(s): Susan Parry
  • Location(s): Yorkshire Dales
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

The nuclear bunker at Tan Hill has remained closed for fifty years – or so Dr Mills Sanderson believes. She and Phil Freedman plan an archaeological investigation of the site but it quickly goes wrong as his PTSD worsens....

Stonechild

Stonechild
  • Author(s): Kevin Albin
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Environmental
  • Era(s): Present day or close to.

Where do we go to when we die? Imagine human consciousness embedded in the molecules of a statue. So, when the statues of London come to life, it is a spectacle like non other. They come with a specific...

Storm Child

Storm Child
  • Author(s): Michael Robotham
  • Location(s): Lincolnshire
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The storm is coming… The most painful of Evie Cormac’s memories have been locked away, ever since she was held prisoner as a child – a child whose rescue captured hearts and headlines. Forensic psychologist Cyrus Haven’s mission is...

Strangers in Time

Strangers in Time
  • Author(s): David Baldacci
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

During one of the fiercest conflicts the world has ever known, three strangers’ lives collide as they confront the raining bombs of their present and the explosive secrets of their past. Journey back to wartime London in this historical...

Straw in the Wind

Straw in the Wind
  • Author(s): Carol Cole
  • Location(s): New Forest
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

A suspicious death, a missing girl, and very few leads… New Forest police are grasping at straws Whilst Detective Inspector Callum MacLean is settling into his new role in rural Hampshire, a young woman is found dead in the...

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