The October Horse (Masters of Rome – 6)
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): BC
The Octopus: A Story of California
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1880s
Like the tentacles of an octopus, the tracks of the railroad reached out across California, as if to grasp everything of value in the state. Based on an actual, bloody dispute between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad...
- Location(s): Blackpool
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
It’s the off-season in the seaside resort town of Blackpool, where Tommy never imagined he would return. His relationship has broken down, so he returns home to keep an eye on his widower father. While counting down the hours...
- Location(s): Robin Hood's Bay, The North East (England)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Post WW2
A Times Book of the Year An i Book of the Year A Reading Agency Book of the Year A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick A BBC Radio 4 ‘Book at Bedtime’ An Observer Pick for 2019 One...
- Location(s): Kyoto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): post WW2
The Old Capital is one of the three novels cited specifically by the Nobel Committee when they awarded Kawabata the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. With the ethereal tone and aesthetic styling characteristic of Kawabata’s prose, The Old...
- Location(s): Zambia (Northern Rhodesia)
- Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future, Fiction
- Era(s): Last 150 years
On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there was once a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. Here begins the epic story of a small African nation, told by a mysterious...
- Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman and his supreme ordeal:...
The Old Man in the Corner (The Teahouse Detective 1)
- Location(s): England, London
- Genre(s): Historical, Short Stories
- Era(s): Later 19th Century
Mysteries! There is no such thing as a mystery in connection with any crime, provided intelligence is brought to bear upon its investigation. So says a rather down-at-heel elderly gentleman to young Polly Burton of the Evening Observer, in...
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
- Location(s): Ecuador
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
An old man lives in a hut in El Idilio, a village on the Nangaritza River, in the southeast corner of Ecuador. The village is so small, the dentist comes only twice a year, to pull teeth and bring...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Nail-bitingly modern domestic noir A tense, Hitchcockian psychological thriller Louise Voss returns with her darkest, most chilling, novel yet… Lynn Naismith gave up the job she loved when she married Ed, the love of her life, but it was...
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