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The Silver Thread

The Silver Thread
  • Author(s): Kate Lord Brown
  • Location(s): London, Paris, Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1870s / 1980s

THREE CITIES. TWO WOMEN. A STORY OF ONE HUNDRED YEARS… London, 1875. Bel has secured a design job at the newly opened Liberty store, where Japonisme is all the rage. When Hiro, a fellow designer, travels with her to...

The Sins of the Father

The Sins of the Father
  • Author(s): C B Hanley
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 13th century

1217: England has been invaded. Much of the country is in the iron grip of Louis of France and his collaborators, and civil war rages as the forces of the boy king try to fight off the French. Most...

The Sitter

The Sitter
  • Author(s): Caroline McGhie
  • Location(s): Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Late Victorian (late 1900s)

Adolescent baker’s boy Jack catches sight of a beautiful woman alighting from a train at dusk. His remote Norfolk village is built around a railway maintenance hub known as The Works which is ruled by ritual, hierarchy and God....

The Skylark’s War

The Skylark’s War
  • Author(s): Hilary McKay
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): WW1

Winner of the Costa Children’s Book Award 2018. The Skylarks’ War is a beautiful story following the loves and losses of a family growing up against the harsh backdrop of World War One, from the award-winning Hilary McKay. Clarry...

The Slaughter Man

The Slaughter Man
  • Author(s): Tony Parsons
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

On New Year’s Day, a wealthy family is found slaughtered inside their exclusive gated community in north London, their youngest child stolen away. The murder weapon – a gun for stunning cattle before they are butchered – leads Detective Max...

The Sleeping Beauties

The Sleeping Beauties
  • Author(s): Lucy Ashe
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1945

May 1945 and at long last, Rosamund Caradon is feeling optimistic. As she returns the last few evacuees to London from her Devonshire manor, she vows to protect dance-obsessed daughter Jasmine from further peril. But a chance meeting with...

The Sleepwalker

The Sleepwalker
  • Author(s): Joseph Knox
  • Location(s): Greater Manchester
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

As a series of rolling blackouts plunge the city into darkness, Detective Aidan Waits sits on an abandoned hospital ward, watching a mass murderer slowly die. Transferred from his usual night shift duties and onto protective custody, he has...

The Slow Lane Walkers Club

The Slow Lane Walkers Club
  • Author(s): Rosa Temple
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

A feel-good tale of unlikely friendship, community and learning to live life in the slow lane, perfect for fans of Clare Pooley and Hazel Prior Daniel isn’t used to living life in the slow lane. So when he finds...

The Small Museum

The Small Museum
  • Author(s): Jody Cooksley
  • Location(s): London, Dorset
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Victorian

A chilling historical mystery set against the gothic backdrop of Victorian London, The Small Museum won the Caledonia Novel Award in 2023 and is inspired by the extraordinary treasure trove of curiosities that is the Hunterian Museum in London....

The Snow Ball

The Snow Ball
  • Author(s): Brigid Brophy
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

First published in 1964, The Snow Ball is arguably Brigid Brophy’s most brilliant fictional performance, consummately melding her avid interests in opera, sexuality and psychology. It is New Year’s Eve in London. The occasion is a costume ball on...

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