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Star of the North

Star of the North
  • Author(s): D B John
  • Location(s): Washington DC, North Korea, Pyongyang
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2010

North Korea and the USA are on the brink of war A young American woman disappears without trace from a South Korean island. The CIA recruits her twin sister to uncover the truth. Now, she must go undercover in...

Stealing the Future

Stealing the Future
  • Author(s): Max Hertzberg
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1990s

A counter-factual spy thriller set in East Berlin in the early-1990s. The GDR still exists, but is on the edge of economic breakdown, partly due to a coal producing region is in the process of seceding from the GDR....

Still Life

Still Life
  • Author(s): Sarah Winman
  • Location(s): Tuscany, East London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

1944, in the ruined wine cellar of a Tuscan villa, as bombs fall around them, two strangers meet and share an extraordinary evening. Ulysses Temper is a young British soldier, Evelyn Skinner is a sexagenarian art historian and possible...

Stockholm Diaries, Caroline

Stockholm Diaries, Caroline
  • Author(s): Rebecca Hunter
  • Location(s): Sweden
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): present

2016 Winner of the National Excellence in Romance Fiction Award Steamy – for 18+!  But nothing that’s non-traditional. Just sexy. A pro hockey player with a rough reputation. An American looking for a taste of adventure. A chance to...

Story of the Lost Child

Story of the Lost Child
  • Author(s): Elena Ferrante
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The fourth and final book of the internationally renowned and bestselling Neapolitan novels One of the major publishing events of 2015, this dazzling saga of two women – the brilliant Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila – firmly establishes...

Storyland

Storyland
  • Author(s): Amy Jeffs
  • Location(s): United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Mythology, Historical
  • Era(s): Various

Soaked in mist and old magic, Storyland tells a history of Britain and the politics of its people through medieval eyes. Grounded in research, related as fiction, it begins before the Great Flood, with a troop of African giants...

Summer in a Cornish Cove

Summer in a Cornish Cove
  • Author(s): Kate Ryder
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Oliver Foxley is an acclaimed movie star and global heartthrob. But under the glare of the spotlight his ‘perfect’ life – and marriage – is slowly starting to crumble. Cara Penhaligon is a struggling young Cornish artist, and widowed...

Sunflowers Beneath the Snow

Sunflowers Beneath the Snow
  • Author(s): Teri M Brown
  • Location(s): Kyiv
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1973 - 2016

A Ukrainian rebel. Three generations of women bearing the consequences. A journey that changes everything. When Ivanna opens the door to uniformed officers, her tranquil life is torn to pieces – leaving behind a broken woman who must learn...

Sweetland

Sweetland
  • Author(s): Michael Crummey
  • Location(s): Newfoundland & Labrador
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

The scarcely populated town of Sweetland rests on the shore of a remote Canadian island. Its slow decline finally reaches a head when the mainland government offers each islander a generous resettlement package the sole stipulation being that everyone...

Swimming in the Dark

Swimming in the Dark
  • Author(s): Tomasz Jedrowski
  • Location(s): Poland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): 1980s

‘You were right when you said that people can’t always give us what we want from them.’ Poland, 1980. Anxious, disillusioned Ludwik Glowacki, soon to graduate university, has been sent along with the rest of his class to an...

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