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The Sea Nurses

The Sea Nurses
  • Author(s): Kate Eastham
  • Location(s): Europe
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WWI

The young nurse ran across the wooden deck, her feet skidding. She spotted an injured young man clinging to the ship’s rail, his eyes wide with terror. She could see the water rushing up to meet them. ‘We need...

The Second Chance Holiday Club

The Second Chance Holiday Club
  • Author(s): Kate Galley
  • Location(s): Isle of Wight, Buckinghamshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s never too late to change the habits of a lifetime… Evelyn Pringle isn’t the sort to make rash decisions. Or any decisions, really – she’s always left that sort of thing up to her husband. But he’s been...

The Secret Hotel in Berlin

The Secret Hotel in Berlin
  • Author(s): Catherine Hokin
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1944

Berlin, 1944. ‘It is a great honour to have you here, Herr Hitler.’ Lili doesn’t stumble over the lie, her hand steady as she pours champagne. Everything must be perfect, no one can suspect a thing… Lili Rodenberg and...

The Secret Life of Winnie Cox

The Secret Life of Winnie Cox
  • Author(s): Sharon Maas
  • Location(s): Guyana, West Indies
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

Winnie Cox lives a privileged life of dances and dresses on her father’s sugar cane plantation. Life is sweet in the kingdom of sugar and Winnie along with her sister Johanna, have neither worries nor responsibilities, they are birds...

The Secret of Vesalius

The Secret of Vesalius
  • Author(s): Jordi Llobregat
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Daniel Amat has left Spain and all that happened there behind him. Having just achieved a brilliant role in Ancient Languages at Oxford University and an even more advantageous engagement, the arrival of a letter – a demand –...

The Secret War

The Secret War
  • Author(s): Louise Burfitt-Dons
  • Location(s): Beijing (Peking), Hamburg, Liverpool, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

Karen Andersen, private investigator, stumbles across intelligence in a Liverpool University that an ultra-right faction of the CCP plan to release a new highly contagious virus on an unsuspecting New York City.

The Secret Wife

The Secret Wife
  • Author(s): Gill Paul
  • Location(s): New York State, Russia, San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century and 2011

A Russian grand duchess and an English journalist. Linked by one of the world’s greatest mysteries . . . Love. Guilt. Heartbreak. 1914 Russia is on the brink of collapse, and the Romanov family faces a terrifyingly uncertain future....

THE SERPENT’S LAIR

THE SERPENT’S LAIR
  • Author(s): Riall Nolan
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Adventure
  • Era(s): contemporary

Max lands a dangerous mission on an Indian Ocean island quickly descending into chaos… Since a bomb blew him through a hotel window in Colombo, international fixer Max Donovan’s life has become more complicated. He in possession of a...

The Shadows of Seville

The Shadows of Seville
  • Author(s): David Canford
  • Location(s): Seville
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Twentieth Century

A gripping and moving story of loss and love, of hatred and passion, and of horror and hope, set in Spain’s most evocative city during the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War and the following decades. Ramon flees rural...

The Shape of the Ruins

The Shape of the Ruins
  • Author(s): Juan Gabriel Vásquez
  • Location(s): Colombia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

It takes the form of personal and formal investigations into two political assassinations – the murders of Rafael Uribe Uribe in 1914, the man who inspired García Márquez’s General Buendia in One Hundred Years of Solitude, and of the...

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