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The Sirens Sang of Murder

The Sirens Sang of Murder
  • Author(s): Sarah Caudwell
  • Location(s): Channel Islands, France, Monte Carlo
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Whilst on a trip to the sunny Channel Islands to find the heir in a lucrative tax law case, young barrister Michael Cantrip finds himself in over his head. Peculiar things begin to occur on the mysterious and isolated...

The Stone Diaries

The Stone Diaries
  • Author(s): Carol Shields
  • Location(s): Indiana
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Born in 1905, Daisy Goodwill drifts through the chapters of childhood, marriage, widowhood, remarriage, motherhood and old age. Bewildered by her inability to understand her own role, Daisy attempts to find a way to tell her own story within...

The Stone Maidens

The Stone Maidens
  • Author(s): Ioulia Kolovou
  • Location(s): Argentina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

For years, the best that young girls from the backwater village of Alta Gracia could hope for was a position in the Big House, home of the immensely powerful and politically influential Goyena family. So, when Señorita Delia Lugghi...

The Stranger In My Home

The Stranger In My Home
  • Author(s): Adele Parks
  • Location(s): Surrey
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What would YOU do if your child wasn’t yours? Utterly compelling, Sunday Times bestseller Adele Parks’s new contemporary novel The Stranger In My Home, is sure to move, grip and delight her fans, along with readers of Liane Moriarty,...

The Street of the Three Beds

The Street of the Three Beds
  • Author(s): Roser Caminals-Heath
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 19th Century

In the shady backstreets of late nineteenth-century Barcelona, where nothing is quite what it seems, a prosperous heir’s carefree life is turned upside down when he investigates the mysterious disappearance of his working-class mistress Maurici Aldabò is the scion...

The Summer House

The Summer House
  • Author(s): Santa Montefiore
  • Location(s): Hampshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2012

Antoinette’s world has fallen apart: her husband, the man she has loved for as long as she can remember, has died tragically in an accident. He was her rock, the man she turned to for love and support, the...

The Summer Party

The Summer Party
  • Author(s): Rebecca Heath
  • Location(s): Yorke Peninsula
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 2000 / 2019

An atmospheric psychological thriller about a glamorous family living on the coast of southern Australia. 2023’s most addictive beach read. A perfect family. A devastating secret. Summer, 2000. In the tranquil town of Queen’s Point in southern Australia, the...

The Sunday Philosophy Club

The Sunday Philosophy Club
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

For those of us who know Edinburgh, this is a wonderful book that takes the reader past all the familiar streets and shops, and this really gives pleasure. Isabel Dalhousie is an academic, and much given to musing about...

The Swimmers

The Swimmers
  • Author(s): Julie Otsuka
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Up above there are wildfires, smog alerts, epic droughts, paper jams, teachers’ strikes, insurrections, revolutions, record-breaking summers of unendurable heat, but down below, at the pool, it is always a comfortable eighty-one degrees … Alice is one of a...

The Symphony Of Souls (A Novella)

The Symphony Of Souls (A Novella)
  • Author(s): Geraldine Solon
  • Location(s): Seattle, The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After losing his three-year-old son, Gabriel, Jake Palmer’s life crumbles as his wife, Veronica, abandons him, leaving him to navigate the depths of grief alone. Struggling to find comfort, Jake’s best friend Luke extends a lifeline in the form...

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