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The Second Wife

The Second Wife
  • Author(s): Miranda Rijks
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Current Day

Tamsin has recently married the much older Robin Featherstone. She knows Robin loves her, even if he is very close to his assistant, Mia. When Robin dies suddenly, his will is beyond shocking. One thing is clear, the family...

The Secret Beach

The Secret Beach
  • Author(s): Veronica Henry
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Twenty years. One secret. A promise never to tell… Nikki finally owns the little coastguard cottage of her dreams – and it’s a few steps away from the hidden beach that means so much to her. But when a...

The Secret Book of Flora Lea

The Secret Book of Flora Lea
  • Author(s): Patti Callahan Henry
  • Location(s): England, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2 and later 20th Century

In the war-torn London of 1939, fourteen-year-old Hazel and five-year-old Flora are evacuated to a rural village to escape the horrors of the Second World War. Living with the kind Bridie Aberdeen and her teenage son, Harry, in a...

The Secret by the Lake

The Secret by the Lake
  • Author(s): Louise Douglas
  • Location(s): Somerset
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

A FAMILY TRAGEDY When a tragedy forces the family Amy works for as a nanny to retreat to a small lakeside cottage, she realises she cannot leave them now. A SISTER’S SECRET But Amy finds something unsettling about the...

The Secret Commonwealth

The Secret Commonwealth
  • Author(s): Philip Pullman
  • Location(s): Prague, Geneva, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Oxford, Türkiye (Turkey)
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It is twenty years since the events of La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One unfolded and saw the baby Lyra Belacqua begin her life-changing journey. It is seven years since readers left Lyra and the love...

The Secret Countess

The Secret Countess
  • Author(s): Eva Ibbotson
  • Location(s): England, Russia
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW1 onwards

As WWI draws to a close, a love affair that stretches across countries, families and class begins, in master storyteller Eva Ibbotson’s classic historical romance The Secret Countess, with an introduction from Amanda Craig. Anna Grazinsky, a young Russian...

The Secret Daughter of Venice

The Secret Daughter of Venice
  • Author(s): Juliet Greenwood
  • Location(s): England, Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

The paper is stiff and brittle with age as Kate unfolds it with trembling hands. She gasps at the pencil sketch of a rippling waterway, lined by tall buildings, curving towards the dome of a cathedral. She feels a...

The Secret Detectives

The Secret Detectives
  • Author(s): Ella Risbridger
  • Location(s): India, England
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 19th century

A gripping historical mystery for 9+ readers from an incredible new voice in children’s fiction. When Isobel Petty is orphaned, she finds herself being taken away from her home in India and sent to live with a distant uncle...

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾
  • Author(s): Sue Townsend
  • Location(s): Leicester
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Humour
  • Era(s): 1980s

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ is the first book in Sue Townsend’s brilliantly funny Adrian Mole series. Friday January 2nd I felt rotten today. It’s my mother’s fault for singing ‘My Way’ at two o’clock...

The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden
  • Author(s): Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

Mary Lennox was horrid. Selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her hunchback uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds the way into a secret garden and begins to tend it, a change comes...

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