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Snow Country

Snow Country
  • Author(s): Sebastian Faulks
  • Location(s): Austria
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1914 - 1933

1914: Aspiring journalist Anton arrives in Vienna where he meets Delphine, a woman of experience and deep secrets. Entranced by the light of first love, Anton comes to life. Until his country declares war on hers. 1927: For Lena,...

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
  • Author(s): Lisa See
  • Location(s): China
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer, and to her family she is just another expensive mouth to feed. Then the local matchmaker delivers startling news: if Lily’s feet are bound properly, they will be flawless. In nineteenth-century...

Snow Waste

Snow Waste
  • Author(s): Michael E Bemis
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Paralleling the modern day struggle between corporate America and the environmental movement, which is increasingly becoming violent, Snow Waste demystifies a ski resort’s future success and a paper mill’s resolve to survive by exacerbating perennial land and water use...

Snowblind

Snowblind
  • Author(s): Christopher Golden
  • Location(s): New England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

The small New England town of Coventry had weathered a thousand blizzards . . . but never one like this. Icy figures danced in the wind and gazed through children’s windows with soul-chilling eyes. People wandered into the whiteout...

Snowblind

Snowblind
  • Author(s): Ragnar Jonasson
  • Location(s): Siglufjörður
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Siglufjorour: an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland, where no one locks their doors – accessible only via a small mountain tunnel. Ari Thor Arason: a rookie policeman on his first posting, far from his girlfriend in Reykjavik...

Snowleg

Snowleg
  • Author(s): Nicholas Shakespeare
  • Location(s): Germany, Hamburg, Leipzig
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s and various

A young Englishman visits Cold War Leipzig with a group of students and, during his brief excursion behind the Iron Curtain, falls for an East German girl who is only just beginning to wake up to the way her...

So Far From The Bamboo Grove

So Far From The Bamboo Grove
  • Author(s): Yoko Kawashima Watkins
  • Location(s): South Korea
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

A fictionalized autobiography in which eleven-year-old Yoko escapes from Korea to Japan with her mother and sister at the end of World War II.

So Many Ways to Begin

So Many Ways to Begin
  • Author(s): Jon McGregor
  • Location(s): Aberdeen, County Donegal, Coventry
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1950s onward

The book follows a Museum Curator and adopted son through his life. Forgotten times, post war Britain, this is a piecing together of one life through mementos past and present. A life set in the context of history.

So Pretty

So Pretty
  • Author(s): Ronnie Turner
  • Location(s): Rye
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Fear blisters through this town like a fever… When Teddy Colne arrives in the small town of Rye, he believes he will be able to settle down and leave his past behind him. Little does he know that fear...

Soho 4 A.M.

Soho 4 A.M.
  • Author(s): Nuala Casey
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Mid 2000s

6 July 2005. Great Britain has just been announced as the next host of the Olympics. The euphoric crowds pour forth from Trafalgar Square into the waiting bars and restaurants of Soho. Dreams, drugs, debauchery… Soho is London’s red...

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