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The Second Chance Supper Club

The Second Chance Supper Club
  • Author(s): Caroline Roberts
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Could a new start heal her appetite for life? When Cath moves to a rural Northumberland village to escape her husband’s betrayal and a life that no longer feels her own, she’s determined to embrace a fresh start. But...

The Second Sleep

The Second Sleep
  • Author(s): Robert Harris
  • Location(s): Hampshire, Berkshire, Dorset, Isle of Wight, Wiltshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 15th century

1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artefacts – coins, fragments of glass, human bones – which the old parson...

The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life

The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life
  • Author(s): William Nicholson
  • Location(s): Lewes
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000

This is the first book in a loose trilogy and is set over 10 days in 2000. Laura is content enough with her marriage, two children and part-time job. That is, until a lover from her past comes back...

The Secret Mandarin

The Secret Mandarin
  • Author(s): Sara Sheridan
  • Location(s): China, England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th Century

The story of two people, Scottish planthunter Robert Fortune and his socially disgraced sister-in-law Mary. The detail is well researched, and the reader is drawn into China of the mid 19th century. There are glimpses into the history of...

The Secret River

The Secret River
  • Author(s): Kate Grenville
  • Location(s): London, New South Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1800s

First book in a Trilogy about early Australia (The Lieutenant and Sarah Thornhill).It is set in the early nineteenth century, on what was then the frontier: the Hawkesbury River, fifty miles beyond Sydney. The story begins in London in...

The Secrets Of Summer House

The Secrets Of Summer House
  • Author(s): Rachel Burton
  • Location(s): Cambridge, Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Romance, Mystery
  • Era(s): Late 1970s and 2018

An emotional, atmospheric summer read about family secrets and loyalty The secrets of Summer House are about to come out at last… 1976. Rushing out of the University Library, undergraduate Alice Kenzie bumps straight into PhD student Tristan Somers. There...

The Shadow Lines

The Shadow Lines
  • Author(s): Amitav Ghosh
  • Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta), London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s to 1990s

A wide-eyed boy growing up in suburban Calcutta in the 1960s experiences the world through the eyes of others – an intoxicating older cousin, a grandmother who weaves stories from the past and a family in London whose lives...

The Shell Seekers

The Shell Seekers
  • Author(s): Rosamunde Pilcher
  • Location(s): Cornwall, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Artist’s daughter Penelope Keeling can look back on a full and varied life: a Bohemian childhood in London and Cornwall, an unhappy wartime marriage, and the one man she truly loved. She has brought up three children – and...

The Shot

The Shot
  • Author(s): Sarah Sultoon
  • Location(s): Central Asia, London, Middle East
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Early 21st Century

An act of mercy Or the ultimate betrayal… Who decides? Samira is an up-and-coming TV journalist, working the nightshift at a major news channel and yearning for greater things. So when she’s offered a trip to the Middle East,...

The Silent Mother

The Silent Mother
  • Author(s): Liz Lawler
  • Location(s): Bournemouth
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Everyone thinks I’m a quiet, ordinary woman, moving into this apartment for a new start. But they don’t know my secret… My new apartment is in an unfamiliar city. My neighbours are always busy, coming and going at all...

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