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Once We Were Witches

Once We Were Witches
  • Author(s): Sarah Driver, Fabi Santiago (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): London, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

A spellbinding new middle grade series crackling with magic and adventure, perfect for fans of Starfell, Nevermoor and A Pinch of Magic. I am Spel. Daughter of witches. The only one who can step between worlds. The only one...

Once Were Warriors

Once Were Warriors
  • Author(s): Alan Duff
  • Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Once Were Warriors is Alan Duff’s harrowing vision of his country’s indigenous people two hundred years after the English conquest. In prose that is both raw and compelling, it tells the story of Beth Heke, a Maori woman struggling...

One

One
  • Author(s): Eve Smith
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Future, Fiction
  • Era(s): The Future

A powerful, prescient speculative thriller: a woman’s job of enforcing climate-emergency Britain’s one-child policy is compromised when she discovers a personal link to an illegal sibling on the ministry hit-list, leading to a shocking discovery that changes everything… One...

One Alpen Day

One Alpen Day
  • Author(s): Michele Davenport-Dutton
  • Location(s): Garmisch-Partenkirchen
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

All she wants in life… is to be a mom. All he wants in life… is for his two young children to have a loving mom… Newly divorced and still struggling with her pregnancy losses and failed marriage, Angela...

One Bad Turn

One Bad Turn
  • Author(s): Sinéad Crowley
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

I lost my child because of you, my only child. Eileen and Heather have always looked out for each other. But two years ago Eileen lost her son and she blames Heather and her family for the tragic loss....

One Boat

One Boat
  • Author(s): Jonathan Buckley
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On losing her father, Teresa returns to a small town on the Greek coast – the same place she visited when grieving her mother nine years ago. She immerses herself again in the life of the town, observing the...

One by One in the Darkness

One by One in the Darkness
  • Author(s): Deidre Madden
  • Location(s): Northern Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

One by One in the Darkness follows a week in the lives of three sisters shortly before the start of the IRA ceasefire in 1994, undercut with the story of their childhood in Northern Ireland of the 1960s and...

One Came Home

One Came Home
  • Author(s): Amy Timberlake
  • Location(s): Wisconsin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1870s

In the town of Placid, Wisconsin, in 1871, Georgie Burkhardt is known for two things: her uncanny aim with a rifle and her habit of speaking her mind plainly. But when Georgie blurts out something she shouldn’t, her older...

One Chance Dance

One Chance Dance
  • Author(s): Efua Traore
  • Location(s): Lagos
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jomi’s mum left him to find their destiny in Lagos, the city of dreams. Now, Jomi and his friendly bush baby follow her to the city, where their only starting place is a TV dance competition his mum used...

One Cornish Summer With You

One Cornish Summer With You
  • Author(s): Phillipa Ashley
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Tammy loved her childhood growing up in the harbour town of Porthmellow. But when her father went bankrupt and her mother abandoned them, she was quick to learn that nothing lasts forever. Now, Tammy spends her days creating works...

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