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Other Women

Other Women
  • Author(s): Emma Flint
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

It is 1923 and a country is in mourning. Thousands of husbands, fathers, sons and sweethearts were lost in Europe, millions more returned home wounded and forever changed. Beatrice Cade is an orphan, unmarried and childless. London is full...

Our Castle by the Sea

Our Castle by the Sea
  • Author(s): Lucy Strange
  • Location(s): Dover
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): World War 2

England is at war. Growing up in a lighthouse, Pet’s world has been one of storms, secret tunnels and stories about sea monsters. But now the clifftops are a terrifying battleground, and her family is torn apart. This is...

Our Hideous Progeny

Our Hideous Progeny
  • Author(s): C E McGill
  • Location(s): London, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Adventure, Gothic, Historical
  • Era(s): 1850s

Mary is the great-niece of Victor Frankenstein. She knows her great uncle disappeared in mysterious circumstances in the Arctic but she doesn’t know why or how… The 1850s is a time of discovery and London is ablaze with the...

Our Holiday

Our Holiday
  • Author(s): Louise Candlish
  • Location(s): Studland
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Pine Ridge is fictitious but partially based on Studland in Dorset. THERE’S TROUBLE IN PARADISE Charlotte and Perry have owned their clifftop holiday home in Pine Ridge for years. They’ve worked hard for it – why shouldn’t they enjoy...

Our House

Our House
  • Author(s): Louise Candlish
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

On a bright January morning in the London suburbs, a family moves into the house they’ve just bought in Trinity Avenue. Nothing strange about that. Except it is your house. And you didn’t sell it. When Fiona Lawson comes...

Our Numbered Bones

Our Numbered Bones
  • Author(s): Katya Balen
  • Location(s): The Fens
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When her life is unexpectedly upended, Anna escapes London – and her husband – for a remote cottage in the wetlands of rural England. She hopes the solitude might unblock the novel she can’t bring herself to write. Out...

Our Spoons came from Woolworths

Our Spoons came from Woolworths
  • Author(s): Barbara Comyns
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

This book is set in London in the Thirties, Sophia is a young woman married to an artist, Charles. Poverty and motherhood all feature and the book is humorous, touching and beautifully written – in an almost childlike way...

Ours are the Streets

Ours are the Streets
  • Author(s): Sunjeev Sahota
  • Location(s): Lahore, Sheffield
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sunjeev Sahota’s Ours are the Streets is a poignant and powerful story of political radicalization. When Imtiaz Raina leaves England for the first time, to bury his father on his family’s land near Lahore, he exchanges his uncertain life...

OUT FOR REVENGE

OUT FOR REVENGE
  • Author(s): Tony Bassett
  • Location(s): Birmingham, West Midlands
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Following the death of a local thug, a simmering gang war quickly reaches boiling point… When notorious gangland boss Tadeusz Filipowski is released from prison, several people start looking over their shoulder. A volatile character, not shy of picking...

Out of Sight Out of Mind

Out of Sight Out of Mind
  • Author(s): Evonne Wareham
  • Location(s): London, Wales
  • Genre(s): Paranormal, Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Madison is a scientist with a very special talent – reading minds. When she stumbles across a homeless man with whom she feels an inexplicable connection, she can’t resist using her skills to help him. Jay is a vagrant...

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