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Our Perfect Storm

Our Perfect Storm
  • Author(s): Carley Fortune
  • Location(s): Tofino
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two best friends. Seven days in paradise. One last chance to fall in love, or fall apart… Frankie and George have been best friends since they were eight. They’ve always clashed and come back together―it’s what they do. Until...

Our Secret Summer

Our Secret Summer
  • Author(s): R S Grey
  • Location(s): Ibiza
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What happens in Ibiza . . . could change everything I’ve spent years stuck behind a desk, always doing the practical, predictable thing. But when my sister’s untimely death leaves me with her unfinished bucket list, I have no...

Our Souls at Night

Our Souls at Night
  • Author(s): Kent Haruf
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

This is a love story. A story about growing old with grace. Addie Moore and Louis Waters have been neighbours for years. Now they both live alone, their houses empty of family, their quiet nights solitary. Then one evening...

Our Spoons came from Woolworths

Our Spoons came from Woolworths
  • Author(s): Barbara Comyns
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

This book is set in London in the Thirties, Sophia is a young woman married to an artist, Charles. Poverty and motherhood all feature and the book is humorous, touching and beautifully written – in an almost childlike way...

Our Twisted Hero

Our Twisted Hero
  • Author(s): Yi Mun-Yol
  • Location(s): South Korea
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

When the twelve-year-old narrator of Our Twisted Hero moves to a small town and enrolls in the local school, he’s confident that his big city sophistication will establish him as a natural leader. He is shocked to find his...

Our Violent Ends

Our Violent Ends
  • Author(s): Chloe Gong
  • Location(s): Shanghai
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1920s, 1927

The year is 1927, and Shanghai teeters on the edge of revolution. The heartstopping follow up to These Violent Delights, an imaginative, alluring retelling of Romeo and Juliet set in 1920s Shanghai. After sacrificing her relationship with Roma to...

Ours are the Streets

Ours are the Streets
  • Author(s): Sunjeev Sahota
  • Location(s): Lahore, Sheffield
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sunjeev Sahota’s Ours are the Streets is a poignant and powerful story of political radicalization. When Imtiaz Raina leaves England for the first time, to bury his father on his family’s land near Lahore, he exchanges his uncertain life...

OUT FOR REVENGE

OUT FOR REVENGE
  • Author(s): Tony Bassett
  • Location(s): Birmingham, West Midlands
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Following the death of a local thug, a simmering gang war quickly reaches boiling point… When notorious gangland boss Tadeusz Filipowski is released from prison, several people start looking over their shoulder. A volatile character, not shy of picking...

Out from Nassau

Out from Nassau
  • Author(s): Fia B Scheyer
  • Location(s): Nassau
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

Out in the Midday Sun

Out in the Midday Sun
  • Author(s): Margaret Shennan
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya), Singapore
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Historical
  • Era(s): 1880 - 1960

The story of British Malaya and Singapore, from the days of Victorian pioneers to the denouement of independence, is a momentous episode in Britain’s colonial past. Through memoirs, letters and interviews, Margaret Shennan chronicles its halcyon years, the two...

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