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Staircase of a Thousand Steps

Staircase of a Thousand Steps
  • Author(s): Masha Hamilton
  • Location(s): Jordan, Palestine
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early/Mid 20th Century

The storyline is of a fictional village in Palestine, 1929-1967, a place that comes to life via wonderfully drawn characters.

Stardust

Stardust
  • Author(s): Carla Stewart
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Shortly after burying her unfaithful husband, Georgia Peyton unexpectedly inherits the derelict Stardust motel from a distant relative. Despite doubts from the community and the aunt who raised her, she is determined to breathe new life into it. But...

Starlings

Starlings
  • Author(s): Erinna Mettler
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 1960s, Modern

Starlings is a daisy-chain novel set in Brighton. Each chapter tells the story of one of its varied inhabitants. Disparate lives collide in surprising ways, showing that destinies are often shaped by those we live beside. In a coastal...

Stasiland

Stasiland
  • Author(s): Anna Funder
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century

In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell: shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited, and East Germany ceased to exist. In a country where the headquarters of the secret police can become a museum literally overnight, and one in 50 East...

State of Wonder

State of Wonder
  • Author(s): Ann Patchett
  • Location(s): Manaus
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

There were people on the banks of the river. Among the tangled waterways and giant anacondas of the Brazilian Rio Negro, an enigmatic scientist is developing a drug that could alter the lives of women for ever. Dr Annick...

Stealing Athena

Stealing Athena
  • Author(s): Karen Essex
  • Location(s): Athens, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 5th Century BC, Mid 17th Century

A novel of two smart women with the sculptures of the Parthenon as the central theme. Mary Elgin, who is the wife of Lord Elgin who brought the marbles (which now reside in the British Museum): Aspasia,who was the...

Stettin Station

Stettin Station
  • Author(s): David Downing
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1940s

November 1941. John Russell is living in Berlin, tied to the increasingly alien city by his love for two Berliners: his thirteen-year-old son, Paul, and his actress girlfriend, Effi. One of a dwindling handful of much-censored journalists, Russell finds...

Stigma

Stigma
  • Author(s): Jørn Lier Horst, Thomas Enger
  • Location(s): Osen, Oslo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Blix & Ramm Book 4) Incarcerated in a Norwegian high-security prison, a broken Alexander Blix joins forces with Emma Ramm to find a ruthless killer who has escaped from a German jail. Pulse-pounding Nordic Noir. Alexander Blix is a...

Still Life

Still Life
  • Author(s): Louise Penny
  • Location(s): Québec
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Jane Neal, 76 year old former school teacher, is found dead on Thanksgiving Sunday in the woods. The police quickly suspect she was killed by an arrow. it is the hunting season, so could it have been an accident?...

Still Waters

Still Waters
  • Author(s): Viveca Sten
  • Location(s): Sandhamn
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

On a hot July morning on Sweden’s idyllic vacation island of Sandhamn, a man takes his dog for a walk and makes a gruesome discovery: a body, tangled in fishing net, has washed ashore. Police detective Thomas Andreasson is...

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