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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...

Of Windmills and War

Of Windmills and War
  • Author(s): Diane Moody
  • Location(s): Netherlands, Framlingham
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

The rumblings of war in distant countries mattered little to Danny McClain. Growing up in Chicago, his world revolved around after-school jobs, a rescued beagle, his pen pal in Holland, and the Cubs’ chance to go to the World...

Off the Beaten Track: My Crazy Year in Asia

Off the Beaten Track: My Crazy Year in Asia
  • Author(s): Frank Kusy
  • Location(s): India, Australia, London, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Humour
  • Era(s): 1980s

One man. Four continents. And a love-crazed travel writer going off the beaten track… In 1989, Frank Kusy found himself the unwilling love pawn of a booted and bodiced Boadicea on a Harley low rider. Then he fell in...

Old Baggage

Old Baggage
  • Author(s): Lissa Evans
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

What do you do next, after you’ve changed the world? It is 1928. Matilda Simpkin, rooting through a cupboard, comes across a small wooden club – an old possession of hers, unseen for more than a decade. Mattie is...

Old Sins Never Die

Old Sins Never Die
  • Author(s): Danielle Collins
  • Location(s): Scotland, London
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Never look back…Treason is deadly While in the Lake District, journalist Emmeline Kirby and jewel thief/insurance investigator Gregory Longdon overhear a man attempting to hire international assassin Hugh Carstairs, a MI5 agent who went rogue. They race back to London to...

Old Sins Never Die

Old Sins Never Die
  • Author(s): Daniella Bernett
  • Location(s): Scotland, London, The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Never look back…Treason is deadly While in the Lake District, journalist Emmeline Kirby and jewel thief/insurance investigator Gregory Longdon overhear a man attempting to hire international assassin Hugh Carstairs, a MI5 agent who went rogue. They race back to...

Oligarchy

Oligarchy
  • Author(s): Scarlett Thomas
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

Oligarchy is Scarlett Thomas’s fierce and brilliant new novel about power, privilege and peer pressure. When Natasha, daughter of a Russian oligarch, arrives for her first day at an all-girl boarding school, she finds herself thrown into a world...

On a Falling Tide

On a Falling Tide
  • Author(s): Georgia Hill
  • Location(s): East Devon / Dorset
  • Genre(s): Time Slip, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary and 19th century

When the beloved grandfather who brought her up dies, Charity is left struggling to cope. Alone and rootless, she’s drawn to sleepy Beaumouth, near Lyme Regis and begins to research her family tree. A chance encounter with attractive boatbuilder...

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