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The Serpent House

The Serpent House
  • Author(s): Bea Davenport
  • Location(s): Berwick upon Tweed
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Victorian and medieval

Set in 1899, the story is about Annie and her older brother, who go to work in the eerie Hexer Hall. Soon we find that Annie can travel in time – and she ends up in the frightening medieval...

The Serpent Sword

The Serpent Sword
  • Author(s): Matthew Harffy
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 633 AD

AD 633 Beobrand is a young man with a shadowy past. As an outsider in the kingdom of Bernicia, he is compelled to join his brother, Octa, as a warrior in the household of King Edwin. He must learn...

The Serpent’s Root

The Serpent’s Root
  • Author(s): M J Logue
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): English Civil War

After Marston Moor. After Naseby. War returns to the West Country. Book 5 in the bestselling Uncivil Wars series, featuring the adventures of Hollie Babbitt and his rebel rabble of Parliamentarian cavalry. Cornwall, 1646. Thomas Fairfax and the Army...

The Seven Deaths of Eveleyn Hardcastle

The Seven Deaths of Eveleyn Hardcastle
  • Author(s): Stuart Turton
  • Location(s): England, Blackheath
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2018 Gosford Park meets Groundhog Day by way of Agatha Christie and Black Mirror – the most inventive story you’ll read this year Tonight, Evelyn Hardcastle will be killed … Again It...

The Seven O’Clock Club

The Seven O’Clock Club
  • Author(s): Amelia Ireland
  • Location(s): Westminster
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

At seven o’clock one Tuesday evening, in a perfectly ordinary tower block near Westminster, four strangers meet for the first time. They each have three things in common: all suffered a traumatic experience six months earlier; all exhibit a...

The Seventh Passenger

The Seventh Passenger
  • Author(s): Angie Rowe
  • Location(s): China, London, The Atlantic Ocean
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): 1912

When the Titanic sinks it takes with it the crime scene, the witnesses and possibly the murderer. The Titanic’s last stop is at Queenstown, Ireland, where seven first-class passengers disembark. Soon after continuing its voyage, the body of a...

The Seventh Son

The Seventh Son
  • Author(s): Sebastian Faulks
  • Location(s): London, New York City (NYC), Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING When a young American academic Talissa Adam offers to carry another woman’s child, she has no idea of the life-changing consequences. Behind the doors of the Parn Institute, a billionaire...

The Shadow of Memory

The Shadow of Memory
  • Author(s): Connie Berry
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Victorian

As Kate Hamilton plans her upcoming wedding to Detective Inspector Tom Mallory, she is also assisting her colleague Ivor Tweedy with a project at the Netherfield Sanatorium, which is being converted into luxury townhouses. Kate and Ivor must appraise...

The Shadows of London

The Shadows of London
  • Author(s): Andrew Taylor
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Historical
  • Era(s): 1670s

London 1671 The damage caused by the Great Fire still overshadows the capital. The disfigured body of a man is unearthed in the ruins of the old almshouse, forcing architect Cat Hakesby to stop restoration work. It is clear...

The Shakespeare Sisters

The Shakespeare Sisters
  • Author(s): Juliet Greenwood
  • Location(s): Stratford-upon-Avon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Around WW2

Four motherless sisters, raised by a distant father in a crumbling, ivy-choked country estate. A terrible war on the horizon that will tear an ancient family apart. Stratford-upon-Avon, 1940. Rosalind Arden, born into one of the oldest families in...

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