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The Silent Wife

The Silent Wife
  • Author(s): A S A Harrison
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Era(s): Modern

A chilling psychological thriller portraying the disintegration of a relationship down to the deadliest point when murdering your husband suddenly makes perfect sense. Todd Gilbert and Jodi Brett are in a bad place in their relationship. They’ve been together...

The Silver Stain (Alex Mavros 4)

The Silver Stain (Alex Mavros 4)
  • Author(s): Paul Johnston
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 2003 looking back

Set against a glorious Greek background, the spellbinding new Alex Mavros mystery – Hired by a Hollywood film company to trace a missing employee in Crete, private investigator Alex Mavros is plunged into a vortex of hatred. The company...

The Singles Game

The Singles Game
  • Author(s): Lauren Weisberger
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Silver makes a pact with the devil, infamously brutal tennis coach Todd Feltner, she finds herself catapulted into a world of stylists, private parties and secret dates with Hollywood royalty. Under Todd it’s no more good-girl...

The Sixteen Pleasures

The Sixteen Pleasures
  • Author(s): Robert Hellenga
  • Location(s): Florence
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

In 1966 the Arno River in Florence floods its banks causing hug devastation to stored artworks, and antique books. As a book conservator Margot Harrington flie in – along with many other volunteers – to add expert help in...

The Sleeper

The Sleeper
  • Author(s): Emily Barr
  • Location(s): Cornwall, London
  • Era(s): Modern

Everyone thinks she has a happy life in Cornwall, married to the devoted Sam, but in fact she is desperately bored. When she is offered a new job that involves commuting to London by sleeper train, she meets Guy...

The Sleeping Car Murders

The Sleeping Car Murders
  • Author(s): Sébastien Japrisot
  • Location(s): Paris, France
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): 20th Century

When the night train pulled into Paris, she was dead. And the riddle began . . . A beautiful young woman lies sprawled on her berth in the sleeping car of the night train from Marseille to Paris. She...

The Soft Whisper of Dreams

The Soft Whisper of Dreams
  • Author(s): Christina Courtenay
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Some dreams shouldn’t come true… Maddie Browne thought she’d grown out of the recurring nightmare that plagued her as a child, but after a shocking family secret is revealed, it comes back to haunt her – the same swing...

The Soldier’s Return

The Soldier’s Return
  • Author(s): Melvyn Bragg
  • Location(s): Cumbria
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): post 1945

The end of World War Two has to be one of Britain’s most dewy-eyed, rose-tinted memories. Yearned for years in advance–Dame Vera Lynn built an entire career on such yearning–it spelled the end of the anguishing waiting, the terrible...

The Sound and the Fury

The Sound and the Fury
  • Author(s): William Faulkner
  • Location(s): Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Turn of 20th Century

Ever since the first furore was created on its publication in 1929, The Sound and the Fury has been considered one of the key novels of this century. Depicting the gradual disintegration of the Compson family through four fractured...

The Speed of Light

The Speed of Light
  • Author(s): Javier Cercas
  • Location(s): Barcelona, Illinois, Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1960s onwards

There are two main settings for this book, Barcelona and Illinois – and deals with experiences from the Vietnam War. An anonymous narrator guides us along, with Rodney Falk, a Vietnam War Veteran. They meet in the late 80s...

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