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Oceans on Fire

Oceans on Fire
  • Author(s): Martin Granger
  • Location(s): Hawai'i, Guam, Marshall Islands, The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When Nathalie Thompson’s cameraman doesn’t show up at the airport alarm bells start to ring. But, with a TV commission on the table and a job to do she sets off across the world to make a documentary on...

Octavio’s Journey

Octavio’s Journey
  • Author(s): Miguel Bonnefoy
  • Location(s): Venezuela
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 1800s

Compact but kaleidoscopic fable of Venezuela from a stunning new voice in the magical realism tradition. “His body might have been hewn from a tree trunk; his heart would last for a hundred years. And, like a tree, he...

Odd One Out

Odd One Out
  • Author(s): Lissa Evans
  • Location(s): The Midlands
  • Genre(s): Humour, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Some are born odd, some achieve oddness and some are just in the wrong place at the wrong time… Netta Lee had always felt like the odd one out growing up. But when, as an adult, she returns to...

Oddjobs

Oddjobs
  • Author(s): Heide Goody, Iain Grant
  • Location(s): Birmingham
  • Genre(s): Humour
  • Era(s): Present day

It’s the end of the world as we know it, but someone still needs to do the paperwork. Incomprehensible horrors from beyond are going to devour our world but that’s no excuse to get all emotional about it. Morag...

Ode To Joy

Ode To Joy
  • Author(s): Shifra Horn
  • Location(s): Israel
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Following a terrorist explosion on a bus in Jerusalem, Yael, a married mother who narrowly escaped the attack, is haunted by the last image she recalls before the horror: a little blonde child waving to her from the window...

Of Chameleons and Gods

Of Chameleons and Gods
  • Author(s): Jack Mapanje
  • Location(s): Malawi
  • Genre(s): Poetry
  • Era(s): 1987

A volume of poetry written by a Malawi prisoner of conscience during his ten-year imprisonment.

Of Dutch Ways

Of Dutch Ways
  • Author(s): Helen Colijn
  • Location(s): Netherlands
  • Genre(s): Food and Drink, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2000s

Of Love and Shadows

Of Love and Shadows
  • Author(s): Isabel Allende
  • Location(s): Chile
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Irene Beltrán is a force to be reckoned with. As a magazine journalist – an unusual profession for a woman with her privileged upbringing – she is constantly challenging the oppressive regime. Her investigative partner is photographer Francisco Leal,...

Of Mice and Men

Of Mice and Men
  • Author(s): John Steinbeck
  • Location(s): Salinas Valley
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except the clothes on their back – and a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they...

Of Saints and Scarecrows

Of Saints and Scarecrows
  • Author(s): Ulysses C Kibuuka
  • Location(s): Uganda
  • Era(s): 2nd half 20th century

When Ssempa and Sister Julian come together, this only spells tragedy. Ssempa – irreverent, crafty and atheistic – and Julian – a pious, subservient Catholic nun – suddenly find themselves the focus of two religious communities with irreconcilable interests....

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