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Silk

Silk
  • Author(s): Alessandro Baricco
  • Location(s): France, Japan
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): 1861

The year is 1861. Herve Joncour is a French merchant of silkworms, who combs the known world for their gemlike eggs. Then circumstances compel him to travel farther, beyond the edge of the known, to a country legendary for...

Silver Stallion: A Novel of Korea

Silver Stallion: A Novel of Korea
  • Author(s): Junghyo Ahn
  • Location(s): South Korea
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

The mountain village of Kumsan, South Korea, is changed forever when the liberating U.N. forces set up a special encampment called Texas Town.

Simon Sixsmith: A Ghost Story

Simon Sixsmith: A Ghost Story
  • Author(s): Daniel Pembrey
  • Location(s): South Carolina
  • Genre(s): Horror, Novella
  • Era(s): Modern

“Daniel Pembrey tells a cracking tale with verve and style. He can write, the jury’s not out on that one…” Susan Hill, Booker Prize short-listed writer, and author of ghost story The Woman In Black THE HORRORS OF FAMILY...

Sin Walks into the Desert

Sin Walks into the Desert
  • Author(s): Matt Ingwalson
  • Location(s): Arizona
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Sin gets a late night call from la Calavera. She’s an ex-federal agent living on half a lung in a retirement home near the border. And she says el Viejo is missing. This is el Viejo she’s talking about....

Since I don’t have you

Since I don’t have you
  • Author(s): Louise Candlish
  • Location(s): Santorini
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

They were friends who shared everything – until tragedy singled one out. At the birth of their daughters, best friends Rachel, Mariel and Jenny make a promise: to love and care for each other’s girls exactly as they would...

Sinco (Cantabria American School series #2)

Sinco (Cantabria American School series #2)
  • Author(s): Christy Esmahan
  • Location(s): Bilbao, Northern Spain, Santander
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Sinco is the second book in the Cantabria American School series, following Bueno. Harvey Jones, the headmaster from Texas, is back for a second year at the school. He is dating the lovely Carmen, and ready to face the...

Singapore Swing

Singapore Swing
  • Author(s): John Malathronas
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

For generations of Britons, Singapore was the international crossroads of the Empire, the ultimate colonial posting, the stimulus for writers such as Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham or Noel Coward. Can today’s hightech 24-hour city with its gleaming skyscrapers and...

Singles’ Holiday

Singles’ Holiday
  • Author(s): Elaine Spires
  • Location(s): Antigua
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Antigua… the Caribbean at its most luscious, its most beautiful… silver sand, cobalt sky, warm turquoise sea… and a bunch of complete strangers, who only have one thing in common: they’re single. Some are looking for romance, some for...

Sister Europe

Sister Europe
  • Author(s): Nell Zink
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One wild, exhilarating night in Berlin: a brilliant new novel by one of the most acclaimed writers of our time Sister Europe tells the story of one wild night in Berlin, as a ragtag group meet at the Hotel...

Sisters

Sisters
  • Author(s): Michelle Frances
  • Location(s): Elba, Italy, Northern Spain, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From Elba to Italy, through the South of France and into Spain. Is blood really thicker than water? Abby and Ellie were never close as children. Now in their thirties, they each harbour deep-rooted resentment for the other –...

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