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Origin

Origin
  • Author(s): J T Brannan
  • Location(s): Antarctica, Geneva
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

For millennia it has lain there undiscovered. Now the time has come… Research scientist Evelyn Edwards always knew the Antarctic held deep secrets but the discovery of a 40,000 year old body buried under the ice caps surpasses even...

Original Skin

Original Skin
  • Author(s): David Mark
  • Location(s): Hull
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Simon and Suzie are two pleasure seekers defined by their flamboyant tattoos. Peter Tressider is a politician on the fast track to the top. DS Aector McAvoy is a policeman with scars to his body and career. Each is...

Origins of Love

Origins of Love
  • Author(s): Kishwar Desai
  • Location(s): Delhi, India, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In Delhi a small baby lies alone and abandoned. The product of IVF and surrogacy, she had been so coveted – until she was born with a fatal illness. No one knows how the infection could have been transferred...

Orkney

Orkney
  • Author(s): Amy Sackville
  • Location(s): Orkney Islands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

On a remote island in Orkney, a curiously-matched couple arrive on their honeymoon. He is an eminent literature professor: she was his pale, enigmatic star pupil. Alone beneath the shifting skies of this untethered landscape, the professor realises how...

Oscar and Lucinda

Oscar and Lucinda
  • Author(s): Peter Carey
  • Location(s): Australia, England
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 19th Century

This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel, is a romance, but a romance of the sort that could only take place in nineteenth-century Australia. For only on that sprawling continent–a haven for misfits of both the animal and human kingdoms–could a...

Ostland

Ostland
  • Author(s): David Thomas
  • Location(s): Berlin, Russia
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

February 1941, wartime Berlin. Brilliant, idealistic young detective Georg Heuser joins the Murder Squad in the midst of the biggest manhunt the city has ever seen. A serial killer is slaughtering women on S-Bahn trains and leaving their battered...

Other People’s Secrets

Other People’s Secrets
  • Author(s): Louise Candlish
  • Location(s): Lake Orta
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Ginny and Adam Trustlove arrive on holiday in Italy torn apart by personal tragedy. Two weeks in a boathouse on the edge of peaceful Lake Orta is exactly what they need to restore their faith in life – and...

Our Man in Havana

Our Man in Havana
  • Author(s): Graham Greene
  • Location(s): Havana
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Pre revolutionary Havana, where anything can be obtained by means. Greene skewers British Intelligence. James Wormold is a mild-mannered, marginal businessman and vacuum cleaner salesman, is approached by MI6 and is unwillingly recruited as “Our Man in Havana”. As...

Our Picnics in the Sun

Our Picnics in the Sun
  • Author(s): Morag Joss
  • Location(s): Exmoor
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

One night, two strangers. A damage that cannot be undone. For thirty years, Howard and Deborah Morgan have poured all their energy and modest savings into Stoneyridge, a smallholding deep in the English moors. Howard putters with pottery, Deborah...

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...

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