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On The Edge

On The Edge
  • Author(s): Jane Jesmond
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Jen Shaw has climbed all her life: daring ascents of sheer rock faces, crumbling buildings, cranes – the riskier the better. Both her work and personal life revolved around climbing, and the adrenaline high it gave her. Until she...

On The Greenwich Line

On The Greenwich Line
  • Author(s): Shady Lewis, Katharine Halls (Translator)
  • Location(s): East London, South London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In a run-down East London housing office, migrants and frustrated local government employees cross paths and try to work out what the latest policy means for them. As a favour to a friend, one man finds himself roped into...

On the Town

On the Town
  • Author(s): Marshall Berman
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

An enteratining and cultural look at what Times Square represents… the teeming hub, the films, the brashnees, the iconography and the history. A delightfully informative book.

Once a Monster

Once a Monster
  • Author(s): Robert Dinsdale
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mythology
  • Era(s): 1861

‘A labyrinthine delight of a novel . . . Dickensian darkness is infused with ancient myth. Historical writing at its finest . . . .’ Essie Fox, bestselling author of The Somnambulist and The Fascination London, 1861: Ten-year-old Nell...

One August Night

One August Night
  • Author(s): Victoria Hislop
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1957 onwards

Beloved author Victoria Hislop returns to Crete in this long-anticipated sequel to her multi-million-copy Number One bestseller, The Island. 25th August 1957. The island of Spinalonga closes its leper colony. And a moment of violence has devastating consequences. When...

One by One

One by One
  • Author(s): Ruth Ware
  • Location(s): French Alps
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Snow is falling in the exclusive alpine ski resort of Saint Antoine, as the shareholders and directors of Snoop, the hottest new music app, gather for a make or break corporate retreat to decide the future of the company....

One Hundred Days of Happiness

One Hundred Days of Happiness
  • Author(s): Fausto Brizzi
  • Location(s): Italy
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What would you do if you only had 100 days left to live? Lucio Battistini has a list: To win back his wife – the love of his life To become a dad his kids will always remember To...

One of Us

One of Us
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Day
  • Location(s): London, Cambridge
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In this compulsive story of betrayal, old bonds and buried scandals, one British establishment family comes face to face with the consequences of privilege and the true cost of power. Martin and Ben were friends for decades ― best...

One Perfect Grave

One Perfect Grave
  • Author(s): Stacy Green
  • Location(s): Stillwater
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She didn’t see the patch of black ice until it was too late. The car started to spin, and as it veered off into the deep ditch and the mounds of snow beside the road, she saw him. The...

One Summer in Sicily

One Summer in Sicily
  • Author(s): Nancy Barone
  • Location(s): Lipari
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A new fun and fresh rom-com set in Sicily by Canadian-Italian author Nancy Barone. In an attempt to resuscitate her twenty-five-year-old marriage, aerophobic Gillian Dobson knocks down a few tranquilisers and takes a dreaded flight to the Sicilian Island...

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