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Sleeping People Lie

Sleeping People Lie
  • Author(s): Jae de Wylde
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s onwards

Paris, France, and attractive, vibrant 26-year-old Sloane from Stamford, England, meets Nicholas, a writer and artist from Boston, USA, and ten years her senior. The attraction is immediate. Sloane believes that she has found the love of her life....

Sleeping with Paris

Sleeping with Paris
  • Author(s): Juliette Sobanet
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Charlotte Summers is a sassy, young French teacher who is two days away from moving to Paris with the love of her life and from fulfilling her dream of studying at the prestigious Sorbonne University in France. But when...

Slick Deals

Slick Deals
  • Author(s): Helen Carey
  • Location(s): Pembrokeshire
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

An exciting crime adventure. A child is kidnapped in Monaco. The British government is about to license oil exploration in the Irish Sea. The only person to see a link is Ella Crossley, a young oil trader in London....

Slow Man

Slow Man
  • Author(s): J M Coetzee
  • Location(s): Adelaide
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

On the Magill Road in Adelaide, Paul Rayment is cycling, had an accident and has his leg amputated. A succession of carers look after him at home and in particular he bonds with Marijana – they both grew up...

Small Island

Small Island
  • Author(s): Andrea Levy
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1948

Queenie Bligh has given up waiting for her husband Bernard to come back from his service in the Second World War, and to make ends meet has let rooms in her house out to immigrants from Jamaica, among them...

Small Pleasures

Small Pleasures
  • Author(s): Clare Chambers
  • Location(s): South London
  • Genre(s): Romance, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): 1950s

1957, the suburbs of South East London. Jean Swinney is a journalist on a local paper, trapped in a life of duty and disappointment from which there is no likelihood of escape. When a young woman, Gretchen Tilbury, contacts...

Small Things Like These

Small Things Like These
  • Author(s): Claire Keegan
  • Location(s): County Wexford
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1985

It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet...

Smaller and Smaller Circles

Smaller and Smaller Circles
  • Author(s): F H Batacan
  • Location(s): Quezon City
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Current

In northeast Manila’s Quezon City is a district called Payatas—a 50-acre dump that is home to thousands of people who live off of what they can scavenge there. It is one of the poorest neighborhoods in a city whose...

Smokescreen

Smokescreen
  • Author(s): Dick Francis
  • Location(s): Johannesburg, Kruger National Park
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s

Edward Lincoln had scaled the Himalayas, survived deadly car chases, defeated scores of assassins. As a film action man he’d even suffered stoically at the hands of sadistic directors. After finishing his latest film, he’s asked to visit South...

Smokescreen

Smokescreen
  • Author(s): Khaled Talib
  • Location(s): Argentina, Australia, Indonesia, Israel, Singapore
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Present

The Plot to Assassinate the Israeli Prime Minister At an ancient café in Cairo, two veteran spies plot a covert mission to resolve — once and for all — the Israeli – Palestinian conflict. The pledge: Israel will make...

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