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Only the Dead

Only the Dead
  • Author(s): Malcolm Hollingdrake
  • Location(s): Harrogate
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): The present day

Meet DCI Cyril Bennett, a man with a passion for manners and efficiency. His partner DS David Owen, is naive and untidy but keen. Together they make a formidable pair. When the discovery of two infants’ bodies is made...

Only You

Only You
  • Author(s): Lorna Peel
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present Day

Jane Hollinger is divorced and the wrong side of thirty – as she puts it. Her friends are pressuring her to dive back into London’s dating pool, but she’s content with her quiet life teaching family history evening classes....

Open House: A Life in Thirty-Two Moves

Open House: A Life in Thirty-Two Moves
  • Author(s): Jane Christmas
  • Location(s): England, Canada
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Moving house has never flustered author Jane Christmas. She loves houses: viewing them, negotiating their price, dreaming up interior plans, hiring tradespeople to do the work and overseeing renovations. She loves houses so much that she’s moved thirty-two times....

Operation Moonlight

Operation Moonlight
  • Author(s): Louise Morrish
  • Location(s): Guildford
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Second World War and Present Day

1944: newly recruited SOE agent Elisabeth Shepherd is faced with an impossible mission: to parachute behind enemy lines into Nazi-occupied France to monitor the new long-range missiles the Germans are working on. Her only advice? Trust absolutely no one....

Ordinary Human Failings

Ordinary Human Failings
  • Author(s): Megan Nolan
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1990s

Set in 1990s, ambitious reporter Tom Hargreaves stumbles across a scoop: a dead child on a London estate, with the suspicion of one reclusive family of Irish immigrants swirling in the background.

Ordinary People

Ordinary People
  • Author(s): Diana Evans
  • Location(s): South London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2008

South London, 2008. Two couples find themselves at a moment of reckoning, on the brink of acceptance or revolution. Melissa has a new baby and doesn’t want to let it change her but, in the crooked walls of a...

Ordinary Saints

Ordinary Saints
  • Author(s): Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin
  • Location(s): Ireland, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Can you imagine it? I’d say to them. Can you imagine me there in the front row in Saint Peter’s Square? The lesbian sister of a literal saint. Brought up in a devout household in Ireland, Jay is now...

Orla and the Magpie’s Kiss

Orla and the Magpie’s Kiss
  • Author(s): C J Haslam
  • Location(s): Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

New-found witch and eco-warrior Orla is up against some seriously dark magic in this creepy and funny adventure, the second in the series. Orla, her brothers and Dave the dog are on holiday in Norfolk, visiting their eccentric Uncle...

Orla and the Serpent’s Curse

Orla and the Serpent’s Curse
  • Author(s): C J Haslam
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Children, Fantasy
  • Era(s): Present

A spooky and darkly comic adventure set in Cornwall – Famous Five with a twist. Orla thought she was in for a relaxing family holiday, but when she finds a mysterious glowing necklace in the woods, it turns out...

Orphan of Islam

Orphan of Islam
  • Author(s): Alexander Khan
  • Location(s): Pakistan, England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

“I’ve told you before, and I will tell you again, if you are unable to read the Holy Book you will be punished.” The teacher’s face was a mask of anger. “Understand?” Born in 1975 in the UK to...

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