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Old Buildings in North Texas

Old Buildings in North Texas
  • Author(s): Jen Waldo
  • Location(s): Caprock
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Olivia is thirty-two and living back home with her mother in Caprock, small-town Texas. Her therapist is a girl she went to high school with; her promising career in journalism has dwindled to nothing, and she spends her days...

Old Sins Long Shadows

Old Sins Long Shadows
  • Author(s): B D Hawkey
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Victorian

In 1868 a young woman starts a journey of self discovery and love. Yet there are those who wish her harm. Old sins cast long shadows which risk destroying her, the people she cares about and her capacity to...

Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist
  • Author(s): Charles Dickens
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1800s

The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens’s tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the...

Ominous: Borders: Coffee

Ominous: Borders: Coffee
  • Author(s): Peter Standish Evans
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Set in PARIS, this thriller surges ominously through the psyche of modern Europe. Conflict is rife: danger is everywhere. You will be tempted to trawl through Paris, to drink in the bars, or smoke on dark street corners. Be...

On Brick Lane

On Brick Lane
  • Author(s): Rachel Lichtenstein
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

An assemblage of stunning characters who have populated this much written about street in London. Jewish jewellers, workers at the old Truman Brewery, market workers, artists and writers who live around the street.

On Dublin Street

On Dublin Street
  • Author(s): Samantha Young
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Four years ago, Jocelyn left her tragic past behind in the States and started over in Scotland, burying her grief, ignoring her demons, and forging ahead without attachments. Her solitary life is working well – until she moves into...

On The Black Hill

On The Black Hill
  • Author(s): Bruce Chatwin
  • Location(s): Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

On the Black Hill is an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave home. They till the rough soil and sleep in the same bed, touched only...

On the Island

On the Island
  • Author(s): Tracey Garvis Graves
  • Location(s): The Maldives
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

When thirty-year-old English teacher Anna Emerson is offered a summer job tutoring T.J. Callahan at his family’s holiday home in the Maldives, she accepts without hesitation: a tropical island beats the library any day. T.J. has no desire to...

One Dark Night

One Dark Night
  • Author(s): Anna Faversham
  • Location(s): Kent
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 19th century

It is 1821 and smuggling is rife on the English coast. Lucy Yorton, dragged away from her privileged early life, finds it impossible to know who to trust, while those around her suspect she is a spy and treat...

One Day

One Day
  • Author(s): David Nicholls
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

‘I can imagine you at forty,’ she said, a hint of malice in her voice. ‘I can picture it right now.’ He smiled without opening his eyes. ‘Go on then.’ 15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet for the...

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