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The Snow Fox Diaries

The Snow Fox Diaries
  • Author(s): Jan Mazzoni
  • Location(s): Exmoor
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present

When passion becomes obsession, anything can happen… Chic, intelligent, highly motivated and unexpectedly unemployed. AND soon to be forty. Not a situation Katie Tremain finds easy to cope with, especially as it gives her time to notice that she...

The Snow Goose

The Snow Goose
  • Author(s): Paul Gallico, Angela Barrett (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Essex
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1940

Philip Rhayader lives alone in an abandoned lighthouse on the desolate Great Marsh of Essex. One afternoon, a hauntingly beautiful child, Fritha, visits Rhayader, bringing with her an injured snow goose. At first Fritha is scared of Rhayader, with...

The Snowman

The Snowman
  • Author(s): Raymond Briggs
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): late 20th century

One winter’s night, a snowman comes to life and an unforgettable adventure begins. Raymond Briggs’ classic is a true piece of Christmas magic – narrated entirely through pictures, it captures the wonder and innocence of childhood and is recognised...

The Snowman of Zanzibar

The Snowman of Zanzibar
  • Author(s): Gordon Wallis
  • Location(s): Zanzibar, Cape Town, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Ex Rhodesian soldier Jason Green was frustrated and mildly depressed. The winter in London had been long and bitterly cold. The steady work as a freelance insurance fraud investigator was mundane and repetitive. This tedious monotony suddenly changes early...

The Socialite Spy

The Socialite Spy
  • Author(s): Sarah Sigal
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 1930s

A TOTALLY ABSORBING HISTORICAL NOVEL ABOUT SOCIALITES, SPIES, AND THE KING OF ENGLAND. London, 1936. Socialite and journalist Lady Pamela pens the popular ‘Agent of Influence’ column, writing wittily about fashion and high society. For her latest piece, she...

The Society of Unknowable Objects

The Society of Unknowable Objects
  • Author(s): Gareth Brown
  • Location(s): Hong Kong, London, The American South
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The world of unknowable objects – magical items that most people have no idea possess powers – has been quiet for decades . . . But three current members of a secret society have remained watchful, meeting every six...

The Soldier’s Home

The Soldier’s Home
  • Author(s): George Costigan
  • Location(s): France, England, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

The Soldier’s Home’ is the stunning sequel to the bestselling debut, ‘The Single Soldier’, by renowned actor and writer George Costigan. The war is over and his home was re-built … but a home is just a set of...

The Somerset Tsunami

The Somerset Tsunami
  • Author(s): Emma Carroll
  • Location(s): Somerset
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1700s

A sinking boat . . . A girl in disguise . . . A disappearing sea . . . When Fortune Sharpe carves a boat from a tree with her beloved brother, Gem, she’s only having a bit of...

The Song of the Skylark

The Song of the Skylark
  • Author(s): Liz Shakespeare
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Nineteenth century

Mary Mitchell, nine years old. Draw your straws, gentlemen, and we’ll see who’s to win this prize.” It is 1842, and this method of assigning parish apprentices has died out, except in North Devon. This story is based on...

The Song That Seduced Paris

The Song That Seduced Paris
  • Author(s): Cindy Irish
  • Location(s): Paris, Royal Tunbridge Wells
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Opera gets sexy! American music mogul Teddy Wilson combines the beauty of opera with the marketability of pop and creates the pop-opera multinational singing group called “Bel Homme.” French for “Beautiful Man,” the four performers he chooses are much...

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