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The Secret Messenger

The Secret Messenger
  • Author(s): Mandy Robotham
  • Location(s): Venice, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1943 /2017

Venice, 1943 The world is at war, and Stella Jilani is leading a double life. By day she works in the lion’s den as a typist for the Reich; by night, she risks her life as a messenger for...

The Secret of Nightingale Wood

The Secret of Nightingale Wood
  • Author(s): Lucy Strange
  • Location(s): Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1919

1919. Mama is ill. Father has taken a job abroad. Nanny Jane is too busy to pay any attention to Henrietta and the things she sees – or thinks she sees – in the shadows of their new home,...

The Secret of Secrets

The Secret of Secrets
  • Author(s): Dan Brown
  • Location(s): Prague, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Robert Langdon, esteemed professor of symbology, travels to Prague to attend a groundbreaking lecture by Katherine Solomon–a prominent noetic scientist with whom he has recently begun a relationship. Katherine is on the verge of publishing an explosive book that...

The Secret Painter

The Secret Painter
  • Author(s): Joe Tucker
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Biography

Joe Tucker’s Uncle Eric was a beloved yet unconventional figure throughout Joe’s life. A shambolically dressed man who lived with his mother for almost eighty years, he had an almost compulsive need to charm strangers with working men’s club...

The Secret Photographs

The Secret Photographs
  • Author(s): Jacquie Bloese
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Later 19th Century

England, 1895: In the bustling seaside town of Brighton, photography is all the rage. Ellen Harper assists her twin brother running one of the city’s seafront studios, where fashionable ladies and gentlemen pose in their finery to have their...

The Secret Society of Salzburg

The Secret Society of Salzburg
  • Author(s): Renee Ryan
  • Location(s): Salzburg, Germany, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

At first glance, Austrian opera singer Elsa Mayer-Braun has little in common with the young English typist she encounters on tour. Yet she and Hattie Featherstone forge an instant connection–and strike a dangerous alliance. Using their friendship as a...

The Secret To Falling in Love

The Secret To Falling in Love
  • Author(s): Victoria Cooke
  • Location(s): Greater Manchester, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lifestyle journalist and thirty-something singleton Melissa hashtags, insta’s and snapchats her supposedly fabulous life on every social media platform there is. That is until she wakes up on her birthday, another year older and still alone, wondering if for...

The Secrets of Strangers

The Secrets of Strangers
  • Author(s): Charity Norman
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A regular weekday morning veers drastically off-course for a group of strangers whose paths cross in a London café – their lives never to be the same again when an apparently crazed gunman holds them hostage. But there is...

The Secrets We Left Behind

The Secrets We Left Behind
  • Author(s): Susan Elliot Wright
  • Location(s): Hastings, Sheffield
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern and 1976

It was a summer of love, and a summer of secrets… She has built a good life: a husband who adores her, a daughter she is fiercely proud of, a home with warmth and love at its heart. But...

The Seeker of Lost Paintings

The Seeker of Lost Paintings
  • Author(s): Sarah Freethy
  • Location(s): London, Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1939 / 1997

Rome 1939 Arriving in Rome to work for the wealthy Montefalco family, Maddalena is homesick and alone. She finds solace – and love – in the beauty of the city, but as the war in Nazi-occupied Italy rages, she...

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