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Six Stories

Six Stories
  • Author(s): Matt Wesolowski
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1997 and 2017

1997. Scarclaw Fell. The body of teenager Tom Jeffries is found at an outward bound centre. Verdict? Misadventure. But not everyone is convinced. And the truth of what happened in the beautiful but eerie fell is locked in the memories...

Sketcher

Sketcher
  • Author(s): Roland Watson-Grant
  • Location(s): Louisiana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

Atmospheric, uplifting and deeply moving, Sketcher – Roland Watson-Grant’s stunning debut – is a novel about the beauty of life no matter how broken it is. Nine-year-old “Skid” Beaumont’s family is stuck in the mud. Following his father’s decision...

Skid

Skid
  • Author(s): Roland Watson-Grant
  • Location(s): New Orleans
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Heart-warming, funny and poignant, Skid – the second volume in Roland Watson-Grant’s Trilogy of the Swamp after the critically acclaimed Sketcher – continues the exploration of a young man’s coming of age in today’s broken world. Having left the...

Skiing the Edge

Skiing the Edge
  • Author(s): Jules Older
  • Location(s): North America
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

The wildest true tales by the greatest ski and snowboard writers. Tales of jail, of humiliation, of skiing through gunfire, snowboarding through pain, getting crushed by avalanche, threatened by authorities, and nearly killing a couple of high-roller ski students...

Slant of Light

Slant of Light
  • Author(s): Steve Wiegenstein
  • Location(s): Missouri
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1850s

With the nation moving toward Civil War, James Turner, a charming, impulsive writer and lecturer, Charlotte, his down-to-earth bride, and Henry Cabot, an idealistic Harvard-educated abolitionist are drawn together in a social experiment deep in the Missouri Ozarks. Inspired...

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...

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