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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...

The Others

The Others
  • Author(s): Sheena Kalayil
  • Location(s): Germany, Rostock
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1980s

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026 The location is fictional although believed to be modelled on Rostock. Three young people from vastly different backgrounds – Armando from Mozambique, Lolita from India and East German national Theo –...

The Oud Player of Cairo

The Oud Player of Cairo
  • Author(s): Jasmin Attia
  • Location(s): Cairo, Egypt
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Vibrantly descriptive and evocative of the waning colonial world in Egypt during the mid-20th century, this debut historical novel by Jasmin Attia is the compelling story of a young Egyptian woman, Laila, who defies the restrictive traditional roles set...

The Outback

The Outback
  • Author(s): David Clarkson
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Matt joins the outback harvest trail so that he can get another year added to his visa. When he arrives to find that drink, drugs and sex are just as easy to come by as they were on the...

The Outback

The Outback
  • Author(s): Sara Ochs
  • Location(s): Australia, The Outback
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It was supposed to be paradise. For one group of friends, it’s a study abroad program like no other: a month-long adventure filled with sunshine, whirlwind romances, and all-night parties. But it isn’t long before their trip of a...

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