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The Other Side of Silence

The Other Side of Silence
  • Author(s): André Brink
  • Location(s): Namibia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): early 20th century

The Other Side of the Bay

The Other Side of the Bay
  • Author(s): Sean Dietrich
  • Location(s): Florida
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): Modern

Small towns have a way of burying things, and small-town people have a way of keeping things that way. With reminiscence and narration, a local sheriff must comb through his own humid world to unravel the truth behind the...

The Other Side of the Bridge

The Other Side of the Bridge
  • Author(s): Mary Lawson
  • Location(s): Canada
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Two brothers, Arthur and Jake, are the sons of a local farmer in the mid-1930s, when life is tough and another world war is looming. Arthur is reticent, solid, dutiful, set to inherit the farm and his father’s character;...

The Other Side of the World

The Other Side of the World
  • Author(s): Stephanie Bishop
  • Location(s): Australia, Cambridge, India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Cambridge 1963. Charlotte struggles to reconnect with the woman she was before children, and to find the time and energy to paint. Her husband, Henry, cannot face the thought of another English winter. A brochure slipped through the letterbox...

The Other Side of Trust

The Other Side of Trust
  • Author(s): Neil Robinson
  • Location(s): Cambridge, Tehran
  • Genre(s): Political, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When the world is turned upside down, who can you trust? Cambridge, England – a professor with links to Iran’s nuclear programme is found dead on a park bench, a victim of poisoning by persons unknown. At the same...

The Other Side of Truth

The Other Side of Truth
  • Author(s): Beverley Naidoo
  • Location(s): Nigeria, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): late 20th century

After the murder of their mother, twelve-year-old Sade and her younger brother are smuggled out of Nigeria by their journalist father to escape the corrupt military government and growing violence. They are sent to their uncle in London, but...

The Other Times of Caroline Tangent

The Other Times of Caroline Tangent
  • Author(s): Ivan D Wainewright
  • Location(s): London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Time Slip
  • Era(s): Contemporary

If you could travel back in time to see any concert, who would you go to see? 2021, North London. The home of Caroline and Jon Tangent. But it’s no ordinary suburban life. Jon has invented a time machine...

The Other Woman #18 Gabriel Allon

The Other Woman #18 Gabriel Allon
  • Author(s): A J Finn, Daniel Silva
  • Location(s): Europe
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

She was his best-kept secret … In an isolated village in the mountains of Andalusia, a mysterious Frenchwoman begins work on a dangerous memoir. It is the story of a man she once loved in the Beirut of old,...

The Other Worlds: Offbeat Adventures of a Curious Traveler

The Other Worlds: Offbeat Adventures of a Curious Traveler
  • Author(s): Tom Mattson
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Present day

The Other Worlds: Offbeat Adventures of a Curious Traveler takes the reader on journeys from Cuba to China, from Finland to the Tip of South America, and from the author’s birthplace on Minnesota’s Iron Range to his tin-roofed shack...

The Others

The Others
  • Author(s): Siba Al-Harez
  • Location(s): Saudi Arabia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

A nameless young university student in Saudi Arabia has no contact with men outside her family, so when the charming Dai seduces her, her feelings of guilt are overwhelmed by the need for intimacy. Dai introduces her to a...

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