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Sycorax

Sycorax
  • Author(s): Nydia Hetherington
  • Location(s): North Africa
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mythology
  • Era(s): 21st Century

WINNER OF THE WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE 2025 Born of the sun and moon, shaped by fire and malady, comes a young woman whose story has never been told . . . They call her Sycorax. Seer. Sage....

Sylvia, Queen Of The Headhunters

Sylvia, Queen Of The Headhunters
  • Author(s): Philip Eade
  • Location(s): Sarawak
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): First hal 20th Century

Sylvia Brooke was the consort of His Highness Sir Vyner Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, the last in a bizarre dynasty of English despots who ruled their jungle kingdom on Borneo until 1946. The White Rajahs were long held up...

Syrian Brides

Syrian Brides
  • Author(s): Anna Halabi
  • Location(s): Aleppo
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This delightful collection of short stories offers insight into the lives of Syrian women, both the married and the brides-to-be. It reveals the warmth and humor as well as the oppression in the Syrian society. The stories make the...

Tail of the Blue Bird

Tail of the Blue Bird
  • Author(s): Nii Ayikwei Parkes
  • Location(s): Ghana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Sonokrom, a village in the Ghanaian hinterland, has not changed for hundreds of years. Here, the men and women speak the language of the forest, drink aphrodisiacs with their palm wine and walk alongside the spirits of their ancestors....

Tales from a Travelling Mum

Tales from a Travelling Mum
  • Author(s): Alice Griffin
  • Location(s): Europe
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Alice Griffin shares the story of how she embarked on a travel adventure with her young family during the first two years of her daughter’s life. Taking in Norway, Greece, France and Spain on the way, Alice weaves an...

Tales of a Midwife

Tales of a Midwife
  • Author(s): Maria Anderson
  • Location(s): England, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Maria Anderson trained as an NHS nurse and went on to become a midwife, a job she has adored for over twenty years. After fainting whilst attending her first three births, Maria went from nervous trainee to assured midwife...

Tales of Mauritius

Tales of Mauritius
  • Author(s): Paolo Rossetti
  • Location(s): Mauritius
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

This book is a series of fictional short stories based on historical events leading to modern-day Mauritius, written following a personal travel experience to the island of Mauritius. Today’s Mauritius is the result of its history, and this series...

Tame A Wild Heart

Tame A Wild Heart
  • Author(s): Cynthia Woolf
  • Location(s): Creede
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1880s

He’s not her brother, but Duncan thinks Catherine sure needs one. A woman has no business trying to run a ranch. Not in 1880s Creede, Colorado. Even though she’s loved him forever, she swears she doesn’t need his help,...

Tarzan

Tarzan
  • Author(s): Andy Briggs
  • Location(s): Congo (Democratic Republic of)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

What lies in the depths of the jungle? Escaping a dark secret, Robbie Canler joins an illegal logging team in the Congo jungle. Now they”re under siege from a sinister force. When the daughter of the camp’s boss, Jane...

Tears of Pearl

Tears of Pearl
  • Author(s): Tasha Alexander
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): Mid 1800s

Looking forward to the joys of connubial bliss, newlyweds Lady Emily and Colin Hargreaves set out toward Turkey for an exotic honeymoon. But on their first night in the city, a harem girl is found murdered – strangled in...

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