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Someone Else’s Shoes

Someone Else’s Shoes
  • Author(s): Jojo Moyes
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A story of mix-ups, mess-ups and making the most of second chances, this is the new novel from international sensation Jojo Moyes, author of Me Before You and The Giver of Stars ‘A delightful reverse-Cinderella story of two women...

Someone Like Her

Someone Like Her
  • Location(s): Lahore, London, Multan
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Multan, Pakistan. A conservative city where an unmarried woman over the age of twenty-five is considered a curse by her family. Ayesha is twenty-seven. Independent and happily single, she has evaded an arranged marriage because of her family’s reduced...

Something Might Happen

Something Might Happen
  • Author(s): Julie Myerson
  • Location(s): Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

On a Monday night in October in a small seaside town in Suffolk, a woman is brutally murdered. There are no obvious suspects, she was not an obvious victim. She just wasn’t, thinks her grieving, bewildered friend Tess, the...

Somewhere Beyond the Sea

Somewhere Beyond the Sea
  • Author(s): Amanda James
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Modern

When love begins with a lie, where will it end? Doctor Tristan Ainsworth has returned with his family to the idyllic Cornish village close to where he grew up. The past has taught him some hard lessons, but he’ll...

South Riding

South Riding
  • Author(s): Winifred Holtby
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

The story revolves about a headmistress who arrives to take over a girls high school in a depressed northern town in the nineteen thirties…

Spanish Crossings

Spanish Crossings
  • Author(s): John Simmons
  • Location(s): London, Guernica, The Basque Country
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1937-1947

“Mother declared herself happy.” A woman’s life has been cast in shadow by her connection to the Spanish Civil War and the Basque child refugees from that war in the late 1930s. We follow Lorna from the days in...

Starlings

Starlings
  • Author(s): Erinna Mettler
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 1960s, Modern

Starlings is a daisy-chain novel set in Brighton. Each chapter tells the story of one of its varied inhabitants. Disparate lives collide in surprising ways, showing that destinies are often shaped by those we live beside. In a coastal...

Stealing Athena

Stealing Athena
  • Author(s): Karen Essex
  • Location(s): Athens, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 5th Century BC, Mid 17th Century

A novel of two smart women with the sculptures of the Parthenon as the central theme. Mary Elgin, who is the wife of Lord Elgin who brought the marbles (which now reside in the British Museum): Aspasia,who was the...

Stolen

Stolen
  • Author(s): Tess Stimson
  • Location(s): Florida, South London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

You thought she was safe. You were wrong… Alex knows her daughter would never wander off in a strange place. So when her three-year-old vanishes from an idyllic beach wedding, Alex immediately believes the worst. The hunt for Lottie...

Stolen Summers

Stolen Summers
  • Author(s): Anne Goodwin
  • Location(s): Cumbria
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1939-1989

All she has left is her sanity. Will the asylum take that from her too? In 1939, Matilda is admitted to Ghyllside hospital, cut off from family and friends. Not quite twenty, and forced to give up her baby...

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