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Our Child of Two Worlds

Our Child of Two Worlds
  • Author(s): Stephen Cox
  • Location(s): New England
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): 1960/70's

Cory is the child of two worlds: when his birth-people come, they will break his mother’s heart . . . but they may also be this world’s only salvation. Molly and Gene Myers rescued Cory and kept him safe...

Our City That Year

Our City That Year
  • Author(s): Geetanjali Shree
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

“an unnamed city in India..” Shruti, a writer paralyzed by the weight of events, tries to find her words, while Sharad and Hanif, academics whose voices are drowned out by extremism, find themselves caught between clichés and government slogans....

Our Country Friends

Our Country Friends
  • Author(s): Gary Shteyngart
  • Location(s): New York State
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2020

It’s March 2020 and a calamity is unfolding. A group of friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next six months new friendships and romances will take hold, while old betrayals...

Our Cursed Love

Our Cursed Love
  • Author(s): Julie Abe
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance

‘A celebration of all things Japan, magic, and romance, readers will swoon at this charming, big-hearted friends-to-lovers story’ – Emiko Jean, author of Tokyo Ever After Destiny, magic, true love . . . Remy is in love with her...

Our Holiday

Our Holiday
  • Author(s): Louise Candlish
  • Location(s): Studland
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Pine Ridge is fictitious but partially based on Studland in Dorset. THERE’S TROUBLE IN PARADISE Charlotte and Perry have owned their clifftop holiday home in Pine Ridge for years. They’ve worked hard for it – why shouldn’t they enjoy...

Our House

Our House
  • Author(s): Louise Candlish
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

On a bright January morning in the London suburbs, a family moves into the house they’ve just bought in Trinity Avenue. Nothing strange about that. Except it is your house. And you didn’t sell it. When Fiona Lawson comes...

Our Lady of the Assassins

Our Lady of the Assassins
  • Author(s): Fernando Vallejo
  • Location(s): Colombia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Fernando, a writer, returns to Medellin after an absence of thirty years. He meets Alexis, sixteen years old, a male prostitute and a hitman – a Medellin child – with whom he falls in love. But their tender love...

Our Lady of the Nile

Our Lady of the Nile
  • Author(s): Scholastique Mukasonga
  • Location(s): Rwanda
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

For her most recent work and first novel – Notre-Dame du Nil, originally published in March 2012 with Gallimard in French – Mukasonga immerses us in a school for young girls, called “Notre-Dame du Nil.” The girls are sent...

Our Last Resort

Our Last Resort
  • Author(s): Clémence Michallon
  • Location(s): Utah
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

From the bestselling author of The Quiet Tenant comes a compulsive new psychological thriller – the perfect holiday read   Fifteen years ago, Frida and her brother Gabriel escaped from a cult. Once so close they were able to...

Our Last Wild Days

Our Last Wild Days
  • Author(s): Anna Bailey
  • Location(s): Louisiana
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘There is nothing like it. The way the world gets real quiet when a gator’s nearby. The way no toad or bird or blade of grass in the landscape dares to move. And then the water, suddenly boiling as...

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