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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...

Snapshot

Snapshot
  • Author(s): Craig Robertson
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A series of shootings by a lone sniper leaves Glasgow terrorised and the media in a frenzy. Who is behind the executions of some of the most notorious criminals in the city? As more deaths occur – including those...

Snare

Snare
  • Author(s): Lilja Sigurdardottir
  • Location(s): Reykjavik
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

After a messy divorce, attractive young mother Sonia is struggling to provide for herself and keep custody of her son. With her back to the wall, she resorts to smuggling cocaine into Iceland, and finds herself caught up in...

Snow

Snow
  • Author(s): Orhan Pamuk
  • Location(s): Kars
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

As the snow begins to fall, a journalist arrives in the remote city of Kars on the Turkish border. Kars is a troubled place – there’s a suicide epidemic among its young women, Islamists are poised to win the...

Snow

Snow
  • Author(s): John Banville
  • Location(s): County Wexford, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 20th century

Following the discovery of the corpse of a highly respected parish priest at Ballyglass House – the Co. Wexford family seat of the aristocratic, secretive Osborne family – Detective Inspector St John Strafford is called in from Dublin to...

Snow Angels

Snow Angels
  • Author(s): James Thompson
  • Location(s): Lapland
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

The first thriller in a new series featuring Inspector Kari Vaara: the haunted, hardened detective who must delve into Finland’s dark and violent underbelly. Kaamos: Just before Christmas, the bleakest time of the year in Lapland. The unrelenting darkness...

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