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Single All the Way

Single All the Way
  • Author(s): Elaine Spires
  • Location(s): Tolleshunt D'Arcy
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Travel Together Tour Manager Eve Mitchell is planning a quiet Christmas at home to rest and relax before a special New Year. But she soon, very unexpectedly, finds herself in the depths of the Essex countryside looking after a...

Single in Saudi

Single in Saudi
  • Author(s): Genia
  • Location(s): Saudi Arabia
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Bored at work and nursing a broken heart, a thirty something R.N. leaves her prestigious job at a Houston medical center to work at a military hospital in Saudi Arabia in 1978. She arrives in a land struggling to...

Sleeping Beauties

Sleeping Beauties
  • Author(s): Susanna Moore
  • Location(s): Hawai'i
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

Susanna Moore’s novel is set in Hawaii whose shimmering beauty and meloncholy traditions are at once seductive and dangerously hard to leave. Or so they prove for Clio, a thirteen year-old runaway who is raised by her eccentric aunt...

Snake Bite

Snake Bite
  • Author(s): Christie Thompson
  • Location(s): Canberra
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

“Jez is seventeen and lives with her alcoholic single mum in in a government rental in Canberra’s outer-suburbs, with little money or future prospects. As well as suffering from terminal boredom, Jez has got epic First World Problems: where...

Snowbound with Dr Delectable

Snowbound with Dr Delectable
  • Author(s): Susan Carlisle
  • Location(s): West Virginia
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Dr Baylie Walker loves her job. As an Emergency Medical Technician, she gets to spend her days skiing through the mountains and saving lives. A secluded and quiet life is just what she needs… Until delectable Dr Kyle Campbell...

Sojourn in Arles

Sojourn in Arles
  • Author(s): Owen Marshall
  • Location(s): Arles
  • Genre(s): Short Stories

A chance encounter leads to an appreciation of the spontaneous and passing friendship of strangers in this evocative short story from one of New Zealand’s finest writers.David Wilson takes a trip around Europe after the death of his wife....

Solo

Solo
  • Author(s): Rana Dasgupta
  • Location(s): Bulgaria
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1900s

The highly anticipated new novel from the critically acclaimed author of Tokyo Cancelled. Solo recounts the life and daydreams of a reclusive one hundred year-old man from Bulgaria. Before the man lost his sight, he read this story in...

Someone at a Distance

Someone at a Distance
  • Author(s): Dorothy Whipple
  • Location(s): England, Surrey
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

‘A very good novel indeed about the fragility and also the tenacity of love’ commented the “Spectator” about this 1953 novel by Dorothy Whipple, which was ignored fifty years ago because ‘editors are going mad for action and passion’...

Someone is Watching

Someone is Watching
  • Author(s): Joy Fielding
  • Location(s): Miami
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

As a special investigator for a hotshot Miami law firm, Bailey Carpenter is smart, savvy, and fearless. When she’s assigned to spy on a deadbeat dad in the middle of the night, Bailey thinks nothing of the potential dangers,...

Something from Tiffany’s

Something from Tiffany’s
  • Author(s): Melissa Hill
  • Location(s): Ireland, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Doesn’t every girl dream of getting . . . something from Tiffany’s? It’s Christmas Eve. And on 5th Avenue in New York City, two very different men are shopping for gifts for the women they love. Gary is buying...

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