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Out

Out
  • Author(s): Natsuo Kirino
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Four women work nights together at a bento box factory on the outskirts of Tokyo, and form a friendship based on their mutual desperation at the quality of their home lives. Yamamoto, a young wife and mother kills her...

Out from Nassau

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

Out of Sight

Out of Sight
  • Author(s): Isabelle Grey
  • Location(s): France, London, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2005 - 2011

Patrick is a loving husband and father, but when his parents come to stay one summer, he is desperate to escape the memories they provoke. Their departure leaves him exhausted and overwhelmed. The last thing he remembers is strapping...

Out of the Blue

Out of the Blue
  • Author(s): Belinda Jones
  • Location(s): Athens, Crete, Spinalonga
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Selena Harper always thought she had the perfect job: working on a luxury cruiseship, she’s whisked around the world from Alaska to Zanzibar with excitement and adventure awaiting her in every port. But as she prepares for her latest...

Outerborough Blues: A Brooklyn Mystery

Outerborough Blues: A Brooklyn Mystery
  • Author(s): Andrew Cotto
  • Location(s): Brooklyn, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Outerborough Blues is the story of a drifter, Caesar Stiles, immersed in a mystery that takes him to the hidden corners of a rapidly changing Brooklyn. The gritty search for a missing art student takes on a mythological sweep,...

Outsider in Amsterdam

Outsider in Amsterdam
  • Author(s): Janwillem van de Wetering
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1970s

Overseas

Overseas
  • Author(s): Beatriz Williams
  • Location(s): France, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 20th Century and Modern

‘…a heady blend of wit, charm, and romantic sizzle, all wrapped around a tantalizing mystery.’ Anne Fortier, New York Times bestselling author When twenty-something Wall Street analyst Kate Wilson attracts the notice of the legendary Julian Laurence at a...

Oyster

Oyster
  • Author(s): Janette Turner Hospital
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction

This story of a cult messiah, Oyster, is set in an outback opal mining town in Queensland. The novel attempts to explore the clash of extreme cultural differences – the nature of evil, the relationship between good and evil...

Pacazo

Pacazo
  • Author(s): Roy Kesey
  • Location(s): Piura
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

John Segovia is many things – American, corpulent, shambolic, and obsessed with the history of South America. This history is what drew him to the city of Piura in the coastal desert of Peru, where every grain of sand...

Paddle

Paddle
  • Author(s): Jasper Winn
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Part memoir, part Irish travels, part lunatic endeavour, Jasper Winn’s account of paddling round Ireland in a kayak, during one the worst summers in recent history, is both hugely inspiring and entertaining. A journey of the mind – as...

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