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The Runaway Year

The Runaway Year
  • Author(s): Shani Struthers
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Dumped by her hotshot boyfriend and boss, Layla Lewis quits her job and heads to Trecastle in North Cornwall to house-sit for a friend-of-a-friend. Trecastle isn’t new to her; it’s a place where she holidayed regularly with her now-estranged...

The Saffron Kitchen

The Saffron Kitchen
  • Author(s): Yasmin Crowther
  • Location(s): Iran, London, Mazareh
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 1900s onwards

come. Richmond Hill in London is a far cry from where Maryam Mazar was born and raised, the little village of Mazareh in Iran, but this affluent suburb is where she has lived for more than forty years. She...

The Saffron Trail

The Saffron Trail
  • Author(s): Rosanna Ley
  • Location(s): Cornwall, Marrakech, Morocco
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Once, there was a girl who loved saffron. She loved its secrets, its mystery, and best of all, she loved its hint of magic. After the death of her beloved mother, Nell travels from rural Cornwall to the colour...

The Saint Zita Society

The Saint Zita Society
  • Author(s): Ruth Rendell
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Ruth Rendell’s Saint Zita Society is formed by disgruntled servants working in salubrious Belgravia. Not all are unhappy with their lot, for there are Dickensian below-stairs exploiters as well as thoughtless bankers and aristocrats in the grand apartments above,...

The Salt Path

The Salt Path
  • Author(s): Raynor Winn
  • Location(s): The West Country
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years, is terminally ill, their home is taken away and they lose their livelihood. With nothing left and little time, they make the brave and impulsive decision to...

The Sea House

The Sea House
  • Author(s): Esther Freud
  • Location(s): Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

he architect Klaus Lehmann loves his wife, Elsa, with a passion that continues throughout their married life, despite long periods of separation. Almost half a century after Lehmann’s death in the village of Steerborough, a young woman, Lily, arrives...

The Sea, The Sea

The Sea, The Sea
  • Author(s): Iris Murdoch
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century

When Charles Arrowby retires from his glittering career in the London theatre, he buys a remote house on the rocks by the sea. He hopes to escape from his tumultuous love affairs but unexpectedly bumps into his childhood sweetheart...

The Seafarers

The Seafarers
  • Author(s): Stephen Rutt
  • Location(s): England, Scotland, Wales
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The British Isles are remarkable for their extraordinary seabird life: spectacular gatherings of charismatic Arctic terns, elegant fulmars and stoic eiders, to name just a few. Often found in the most remote and dramatic reaches of our shores, these...

The Season Ticket

The Season Ticket
  • Author(s): Jonathan Tulloch
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Humour
  • Era(s): 1990s

Once you have the rhythm of the Geordie dialect, you will be well away! Tulloch is interested in humanizing the inhabitants of modern Britain’s slums and ghettos and in this book via Gerry and Sewell, two teenage boys living...

The Second Chance Book Club

The Second Chance Book Club
  • Author(s): Stephanie Butland
  • Location(s): Harrogate
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Dear Ms Blythe We are dealing with an estate of which you may be a beneficiary. Please send any documents in your possession that relate to your birth and adoption. September is at her wits’ end. There’s never enough...

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