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Sweet William

Sweet William
  • Author(s): Iain Maitland
  • Location(s): Aldeburgh
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sweet William is a breathtakingly dark thriller that spans forty-eight hours in the life of a desperate father and a three-year-old child in peril, who needs insulin to stay alive. It tells a story of mental illness, a foster...

Swimming Pool Summer

Swimming Pool Summer
  • Author(s): Rebecca Farnworth
  • Location(s): Zakynthos (Zante)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Frankie hasn’t had a proper relationship for years. But though she tells everyone this is how she wants it, but secretly she’s in love with her best friend Patrick. Tor didn’t think she could have a baby, but now...

Swimming with the dead

Swimming with the dead
  • Author(s): Kathy Brandt
  • Location(s): British Virgin Islands
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

Murder runs deep in this thrilling Underwater Investigation series featuring C.S.I. diver Hannah Sampson. Summoned to the sun-drenched beaches of the British Virgin Islands, Hannah Sampson is fully prepared to face unknowable dangers beneath the crystal-clear waters of an...

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...

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