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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...

On Beauty

On Beauty
  • Author(s): Zadie Smith
  • Location(s): London, Boston
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

Why do we fall in love with the people we do? Why do we visit our mistakes on our children? What makes life truly beautiful? Set between New England and London, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families...

On Cats

On Cats
  • Author(s): Doris Lessing
  • Location(s): Africa, England
  • Genre(s): Animals
  • Era(s): 1960’s

A memoir in which we meet the cats that have slunk and bullied and charmed their way into Doris Lessing’s life. She tells their stories- their exploits, rivalries, terrors, affections, ancient gestures, and learned behaviours- with vivid simplicity.

On Chapel Sands

On Chapel Sands
  • Author(s): Laura Cumming
  • Location(s): Lincolnshire
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Uncovering the mystery of her mother’s disappearance as a child: Laura Cumming, prize-winning author and art critic, takes a closer look at her family story. In the autumn of 1929, a small child was kidnapped from a Lincolnshire beach....

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