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Notes from the Lost

Notes from the Lost
  • Author(s): Cathie Hartigan
  • Location(s): England, Italy
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2 / 2000

In October 1943, POWs Alfie and Frank, jump from a train taking them to a German camp, into the Italian mountains. Hopelessly ill-equipped, their survival through the harsh winter depends on the courage and generosity of local families. The...

Nothing But The Truth

Nothing But The Truth
  • Author(s): Simon Michael
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1968

Superintendent “Nipper” Read is that rarest of things: an honest Metropolitan police copper. His task force can bring down the Kray twins. The catch: Read needs barrister Charles Holborne to testify against them, while the Krays have evidence against...

Nothing Ventured

Nothing Ventured
  • Author(s): Jeffrey Archer
  • Location(s): Oxford, London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This is not a detective story, this is a story about a detective William Warwick has always wanted to be a detective, and decides, much to his father’s dismay, that rather than become a barrister like his father, Sir...

Notting Hill in the Snow

Notting Hill in the Snow
  • Author(s): Jules Wake
  • Location(s): Notting Hill
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s mayhem in Bethlehem…unless they can work together! Viola Smith plays the viola in an orchestra (yes really!), but this year she’s been asked to stretch her musical talents to organising Notting Hill’s local nativity. Nate Williams isn’t looking...

Number 11 (The Winshaw Legacy #2)

Number 11 (The Winshaw Legacy #2)
  • Author(s): Jonathan Coe
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This is a novel about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us all. It’s about the legacy of war and the end of innocence. It’s about how comedy and politics...

Nutshell

Nutshell
  • Author(s): Ian McEwan
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): early 21st century

A classic tale of murder and deceit from one of the world’s best storytellers – ‘a masterpiece’ The Times Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She’s still in the marital home – a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse – but...

Odd One Out

Odd One Out
  • Author(s): Lissa Evans
  • Location(s): The Midlands
  • Genre(s): Humour, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Some are born odd, some achieve oddness and some are just in the wrong place at the wrong time… Netta Lee had always felt like the odd one out growing up. But when, as an adult, she returns to...

Oddjobs

Oddjobs
  • Author(s): Heide Goody, Iain Grant
  • Location(s): Birmingham
  • Genre(s): Humour
  • Era(s): Present day

It’s the end of the world as we know it, but someone still needs to do the paperwork. Incomprehensible horrors from beyond are going to devour our world but that’s no excuse to get all emotional about it. Morag...

Of Serpent Born

Of Serpent Born
  • Author(s): Jacqueline Zacharias
  • Location(s): York, Kerala
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

Anitha has just turned sixteen. She is intelligent and studious, but she feels like a misfit amongst her peers at school and in her own extended family. Having lost her father tragically when she was a baby, she still...

Of the Past and Eternity

Of the Past and Eternity
  • Author(s): Carole Lehr Johnson
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Time Slip, Romance
  • Era(s): Regency Era England

Thrown back in time with the man she despises . . . At her sister’s urging, Cora Anderson leaves Boston and travels to an old manor in rural England to pursue her dream job while also outrunning the pain...

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