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The Sinner’s Grand Tour: A Journey Through the Historical Underbelly of Europe

The Sinner’s Grand Tour: A Journey Through the Historical Underbelly of Europe
  • Author(s): Tony Perrottet
  • Location(s): Europe
  • Genre(s): Historical, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1500s onwards

In The Sinner’s Grand Tour, celebrated historian and travel writer Tony Perrottet sets off to discover a string of legendary sites and relics that are still kept far from public view. In southern France, an ancient text leads him...

The Sirens of Baghdad

The Sirens of Baghdad
  • Author(s): Yasmina Khadra
  • Location(s): Baghdad
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

This book follows the story of a young man at University, exchanging furtive glances with a young woman, and his descent into terrorism

The Sisters Brothers

The Sisters Brothers
  • Author(s): Patrick deWitt
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century

Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. Across 1000 miles of Oregon desert his assassins, the notorious Eli and Charlies Sisters, ride – fighting, shooting, and drinking their way to Sacramento. But their prey isn’t an easy mark, the...

The Sisters of Versailles

The Sisters of Versailles
  • Author(s): Sally Christie
  • Location(s): Versailles
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th century

VERSAILLES A sumptuous and sensual tale of power, romance, family, and betrayal centered around four sisters and one King. Carefully researched and ornately detailed, The Sisters of Versailles is the first book in an exciting new historical fiction trilogy...

The Sixpenny Orphan

The Sixpenny Orphan
  • Author(s): Glenda Young
  • Location(s): Ryhope
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

‘Please, sir, take us both. We only have each other. We don’t know how to live apart.’ After the death of their parents, sisters Poppy and Rose are taken in by widow Nellie Harper. But whilst they have a...

The Skipper’s Child

The Skipper’s Child
  • Author(s): Valerie Poore
  • Location(s): Belgium, France, Netherlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1960s

Arie Kornet hates school holidays on his family’s barge, the Rival, which is home to Arie, his two sisters, his father, and his deaf mother. But because his father is a commercial skipper, all they do is travel from...

The Slave House

The Slave House
  • Author(s): Charles Lambert
  • Location(s): Portugal
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): 1970s

When Simon, a young gay English teacher, goes to work in southern Portugal, he doesn’t expect to find a country in the aftermath of a peaceful revolution, nor to have an affair with Elaine, a female colleague. As both...

The Sleepwalkers

The Sleepwalkers
  • Author(s): Paul Grossman
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Early 1930s

In the final weeks of the Weimar Republic, as Hitler and his National Socialist party angle to assume control of Germany, beautiful girls are seen sleepwalking through the streets. Then, a young woman of mysterious origin, with her legs...

The Sly company of People who care

The Sly company of People who care
  • Author(s): Rahul Bhattacharya
  • Location(s): Guyana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A twenty-six-year-old Indian journalist decides to give up his job and travel to Guyana, a forgotten colonial society of raw, mesmerizing beauty. But he is not just seduced by the country: he is also captivated by the feisty yet...

The Smoke of Her Burning

The Smoke of Her Burning
  • Author(s): M J Logue
  • Location(s): Selby
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 17th century, English Civil War

There’s a lot of miles between Essex and Cheshire…. …and newly-promoted Colonel Hollie Babbitt is cursing the most recent additions to his company, for every step of them. A scarred lieutenant with a death wish, and they don’t call...

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