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One Summer’s Night

One Summer’s Night
  • Author(s): Kiley Dunbar
  • Location(s): Stratford-upon-Avon
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Kelsey Anderson is stuck in a rut so big, she ll need a 4-wheel drive to get out. She s just been made redundant from her dead-end job, and boyfriend Fran is so busy climbing up the career ladder...

One Sweet Moment

One Sweet Moment
  • Author(s): Maggie Craig
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1820s

A tale of young love and old Edinburgh. Kate works in an oyster cellar in the Old Town and dreams of escape with her young brother Andrew from their grasping and predatory aunt and uncle. Richard Hope is a...

One Thousand and One Nights

One Thousand and One Nights
  • Author(s): Hanan al-Shaykh
  • Location(s): Asia
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): N/A

One Thousand and One Nights are the never-ending stories told by Shahrazad under sentence of death to King Shahrayar. Maddened by the discovery of his wife’s orgies, King Shahrayar vows to marry a virgin every night and kill her...

One Thousand Stars and You

One Thousand Stars and You
  • Author(s): Isabelle Broom
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One spark will light up both their lives Alice is settling down. It might not be the adventurous life she once imagined, but more than anything she wants to make everyone happy – her steady boyfriend, her over-protective mother...

One to Watch

One to Watch
  • Author(s): Rachel Amphlett
  • Location(s): Kent
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Detective Kay Hunter Book 3) Sophie Whittaker shared a terrifying secret. Hours later, she was dead. Detective Kay Hunter and her colleagues are shocked by the vicious murder of a teenage girl at a private party in the Kentish...

One True Sentence

One True Sentence
  • Author(s): Craig McDonald
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

February, 1924: an incredible exchange rate, lack of prohibition and post-war ennui have flooded the City of Light with thousands of Americans — the psychologically damaged members of the so-called Lost Generation. The cafés, bistros and garrets of Paris...

One True Thing

One True Thing
  • Author(s): Linda Newbery
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Bridget feels compromised. By marrying Anthony Harper and moving to Wildings, his family home for three generations, she’s abandoned her urban roots for rural affluence and comfort she hasn’t earned. As Anthony becomes increasingly difficult and their marriage founders,...

One True Word

One True Word
  • Author(s): Snæbjörn Arngrímsson, Larissa Kyzer (Translator)
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Why did she do it? After a day of simmering tension on a trip to an uninhabited island, Júlia snaps and leaves her husband Gíó marooned in the middle of a freezing fjord in the depths of the Icelandic...

One Tuesday, Early

One Tuesday, Early
  • Author(s): Annalisa Crawford
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

You’re on your own and you shouldn’t be. Your partner is missing. The streets are empty. Even the birds have disappeared. What do you do? It’s 6:05am one Tuesday morning, and Lexi Peters is alone. Her partner, her friends,...

One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time
  • Author(s): Craig Brown
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): 1960s

John Updike compared them to ‘the sun coming out on an Easter morning’. Bob Dylan introduced them to drugs. The Duchess of Windsor adored them. Noel Coward despised them. JRR Tolkien snubbed them. The Rolling Stones copied them. Loenard...

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