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Sophie’s Bakery For The Broken Hearted

Sophie’s Bakery For The Broken Hearted
  • Author(s): Lolly Winston
  • Location(s): Oregon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

This book is the same as Good Grief. Sophie, at 36, has just lost her husband Ethan through cancer. Winston vividly describes the emotional rollercoaster of bereavement, with all the different stages and finally, in Oregon, she gets her...

Sorry

Sorry
  • Author(s): Zoran Drvenkar
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Berlin. Four friends. One extreme idea. One of the most gripping thrillers ever written. Kris, Tamara,Wolf and Frauke set up an agency called Sorry. An agency to right wrongs. Unfair dismissals, the wrongly accused: everyone has a price, and...

Spark

Spark
  • Author(s): Naoki Matayoshi, Alison Watts (translator)
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 21st Century

The cult Japanese phenomenon – a hilarious, prizewinning bestseller about making it in Manzai comedy Tokunaga is a young comedian struggling to make a name for himself when he is taken under the wing of Kamiya, who is either...

Splinter

Splinter
  • Author(s): Sebastian Fitzek
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Set in Neukölln, Berlin, Marc Lucas had it all, and lost it all. He is only slowly putting his life back together after the car crash that killed his pregnant wife, when things start to go strangely wrong for...

Standing in Death’s Shadow

Standing in Death’s Shadow
  • Author(s): Ken Lang
  • Location(s): Baltimore
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

A fascinating and revealing read that throws you right into the conflict between the victims, their killers, and the detectives who are tasked to solve their murders. (Ken Lang)

Started Early, Took my Dog

Started Early, Took my Dog
  • Author(s): Kate Atkinson
  • Location(s): Leeds
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

British author Atkinson’s magnificently plotted fourth novel featuring Jackson Brodie (after When Will There Be Good News?) takes the “semi-retired” PI back to his Yorkshire hometown to trace the biological parents of Hope McMasters, a woman adopted by a...

Stasi Child

Stasi Child
  • Author(s): David Young
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1975

East Berlin, 1975 When Oberleutnant Karin Müller is called to investigate a teenage girl’s body at the foot of the Wall, she imagines she’s seen it all before. But when she arrives she realises this is a death like...

Stone Lord

Stone Lord
  • Author(s): J P Reedman
  • Location(s): Salisbury
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): c1900BC (Bronze Age)

In Southern Britain, the Giants Dance stands alone on the Great Plain. For 500 years its massive trilithons have remained unruled by any chief. With invaders from distant lands attacking Britain’s shores to steal its precious tin, another king...

Strangers

Strangers
  • Author(s): C L Taylor
  • Location(s): Bristol
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Ursula, Gareth and Alice have never met before. Ursula thinks she killed the love of her life. Gareth’s been receiving strange postcards. And Alice is being stalked. None of them are used to relying on others – but when...

Strippers Always Need Legal Advice

Strippers Always Need Legal Advice
  • Author(s): Iain Levison
  • Location(s): Philadelphia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Dark Humour, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A THOUSAND DOLLARS AN HOUR. It’s hard to refuse such an offer when you’re a public defender in Philadelphia spending your days – Sundays included – working on the depressing files of smalltime crooks. Then negotiating sentences with a...

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