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The Orphanage Girls Come Home

The Orphanage Girls Come Home
  • Author(s): Mary Wood
  • Location(s): London, Canada
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1910/1919

‘These heartbreaking but also inspirational tales are full of the grit and hardship that have become hallmarks of a storyteller who writes straight from the heart.’ – Lancashire Evening Post London, 1910 When Amy is chosen to be a...

The Orphanage Girls Reunited

The Orphanage Girls Reunited
  • Author(s): Mary Wood
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW1

The Orphanage Girls come back together in The Orphanage Girls Reunited, the second installment of a moving wartime saga set in London’s East End, from the bestselling author of The Jam Factory Girls, Mary Wood. Ellen Abandoned by her...

The Orphanmaster

The Orphanmaster
  • Author(s): Jean Zimmerman
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1663

From a debut novelist, a gripping historical thriller and rousing love story set in seventeenth-century Manhattan It’s 1663 in the tiny, hardscrabble Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, now present-day southern Manhattan. Orphan children are going missing, and among those...

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 Couple

The Other Couple
  • Author(s): Sarah J Naughton
  • Location(s): Vietnam, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It was meant to be the perfect honeymoon. A five-star resort in paradise. White sands, a private villa and world-class cuisine. A chance for newlyweds Asha and Ollie Graveney to recover from a recent tragedy, and enjoy the holiday...

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...

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