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The Orphans

The Orphans
  • Author(s): Annemarie Neary
  • Location(s): Goa, London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Eight-year-old Jess and her little brother were playing at the water’s edge when their parents vanished. For hours the children held hands and waited for them to return. But nobody ever came back. Years later, Jess has become a...

The Ossians

The Ossians
  • Author(s): Doug Johnstone
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set in Edinburgh, St Andrews, Dundee, Arbroath, Aberdeen, Inverness, Thurso, Ullapool, Kyle of Lochalsh, Fort William and Glasgow Connor is twenty-four: brilliant, broken, and out of control. He’s the swaggering frontman of The Ossians, a Scottish indie band on...

The Other

The Other
  • Author(s): David Guterson
  • Location(s): Seattle
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th century

Seattle, 1972: Neil Countryman and John William Barry, two teenage boys from very different backgrounds, are at the start of an 800m race. Their lives collide for the first time, and so begins an extraordinary friendship. As they grow...

The Other Americans

The Other Americans
  • Author(s): Laila Lalami
  • Location(s): California, Palm Desert
  • Genre(s): Future
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Late one spring night, Driss Guerraoui, a Moroccan immigrant in California, is walking across a darkened intersection when he is killed by a speeding car. The repercussions of his death bring together a diverse cast of characters, deeply divided...

The Other Black Girl

The Other Black Girl
  • Author(s): Zakiya Dalila Harris
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Get Out meets The Devil Wears Prada in this electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of book publishing. Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being...

The Other Daughter

The Other Daughter
  • Author(s): Lauren Willig
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): 1920s

Raised in a poor yet genteel household, Rachel Woodley is working in France as a governess when she receives news that her mother has died, suddenly. Grief-stricken, she returns to the small town in England where she was raised...

The Other Daughter

The Other Daughter
  • Author(s): Shalini Boland
  • Location(s): Dorset
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Nine years ago her daughter was taken. And now she’s back. Two-and-a-half-year-old Holly is playing happily in a pink plastic playhouse, while her mother Rachel sips coffee and chats with a friend nearby. It should be an ordinary day...

The Other Daughter

The Other Daughter
  • Author(s): Caroline Bishop
  • Location(s): London, Lausanne, Montreux
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1976 - 2016

You only get one life – but what if it isn’t the one you were meant to live? When Jessica discovers a shocking secret about her birth, she leaves her London home and travels to Switzerland in search of...

THE OTHER DETECTIVE

THE OTHER DETECTIVE
  • Author(s): James Davidson
  • Location(s): Gdansk
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1939 and 1961

A detective risks everything in a city on the brink… Days before the outbreak of World War II, chief investigator of the Danzig Police Force, Johan Tal, gets called out to investigate a brutal murder. The crime scene is...

The Other Einstein

The Other Einstein
  • Author(s): Marie Benedict
  • Location(s): Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Serbia
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1800s and Early 1900s

Historical fiction that presents a “what if” theory about the amount of involvement that Albert Einstein’s first wife (also a physicist) had in some of his most significant scientific contributions.

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