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One Day in December

One Day in December
  • Author(s): Josie Silver
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn’t exist. After all, life isn’t a scene from the movies, is it? But then, through a misted-up bus window one freezing day, she sees a man she knows instantly is...

One Enchanted Evening

One Enchanted Evening
  • Author(s): Anton Du Beke
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

London, 1936. Inside the spectacular Grand Ballroom of the exclusive Buckingham Hotel the rich and powerful, politicians, film stars, even royalty, rub shoulders with Raymond de Guise and his troupe of talented dancers from all around the world, who...

One In Three

One In Three
  • Author(s): Tess Stimson
  • Location(s): London, Devon
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Both of them loved him. One of them killed him . . . Louise has had to watch her husband, Andrew, start a new family in the four years since he left her. The ‘other woman’ is now his...

One Last Summer at Hideaway Bay

One Last Summer at Hideaway Bay
  • Author(s): Zoe Cook
  • Location(s): Cornwall, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Secrets lie waiting beneath the Cornish waves in this moving and unforgettable love story. Perfect for fans of Nicholas Sparks, Kelly Rimmer and Jojo Moyes. Lucy, hi. It’s Tom. How are you? It’s been a while. I’ve been meaning...

One Yellow Eye

One Yellow Eye
  • Author(s): Leigh Radford
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Horror, Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): Future

Full of heartbreak, revulsion and black humour, a scientist desperately searches for a cure to a zombie virus while also hiding a monumental secret – her undead husband. Kesta’s husband Tim was the last person to be bitten in...

One-Armed Jack: Uncovering the Real Jack the Ripper

One-Armed Jack: Uncovering the Real Jack the Ripper
  • Author(s): Sarah Bax Horton
  • Location(s): London, Whitechapel
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): Present looking back to 1888

Using a different analytical approach, for the first time, Sarah Bax Horton identifies a named perpetrator as Jack the Ripper by linking eye-witness accounts of the killer’s distinctive physical characteristics to his official medical records. It argues that his...

Only You

Only You
  • Author(s): Lorna Peel
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present Day

Jane Hollinger is divorced and the wrong side of thirty – as she puts it. Her friends are pressuring her to dive back into London’s dating pool, but she’s content with her quiet life teaching family history evening classes....

Ordinary Human Failings

Ordinary Human Failings
  • Author(s): Megan Nolan
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1990s

Set in 1990s, ambitious reporter Tom Hargreaves stumbles across a scoop: a dead child on a London estate, with the suspicion of one reclusive family of Irish immigrants swirling in the background.

Ordinary People

Ordinary People
  • Author(s): Diana Evans
  • Location(s): South London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2008

South London, 2008. Two couples find themselves at a moment of reckoning, on the brink of acceptance or revolution. Melissa has a new baby and doesn’t want to let it change her but, in the crooked walls of a...

Ordinary Saints

Ordinary Saints
  • Author(s): Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin
  • Location(s): Ireland, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Can you imagine it? I’d say to them. Can you imagine me there in the front row in Saint Peter’s Square? The lesbian sister of a literal saint. Brought up in a devout household in Ireland, Jay is now...

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