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Our Evenings

Our Evenings
  • Author(s): Alan Hollinghurst
  • Location(s): England, London, South East England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s to present

Dave Win is thirteen years old when he first goes to stay with the sponsors of his scholarship at a local boarding school. This weekend, with its games and challenges and surprising encounters, will open up heady new possibilities,...

Our Picnics in the Sun

Our Picnics in the Sun
  • Author(s): Morag Joss
  • Location(s): Exmoor
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

One night, two strangers. A damage that cannot be undone. For thirty years, Howard and Deborah Morgan have poured all their energy and modest savings into Stoneyridge, a smallholding deep in the English moors. Howard putters with pottery, Deborah...

Out

Out
  • Author(s): Natsuo Kirino
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Four women work nights together at a bento box factory on the outskirts of Tokyo, and form a friendship based on their mutual desperation at the quality of their home lives. Yamamoto, a young wife and mother kills her...

Out of Sight

Out of Sight
  • Author(s): Isabelle Grey
  • Location(s): France, London, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2005 - 2011

Patrick is a loving husband and father, but when his parents come to stay one summer, he is desperate to escape the memories they provoke. Their departure leaves him exhausted and overwhelmed. The last thing he remembers is strapping...

Outlaws

Outlaws
  • Author(s): Javier Cercas
  • Location(s): Girona (Gerona)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s/2000s

In the late 1970s, as Spain was adrift between the death of Franco and the rebirth of democracy, people were moving from the poor south to the cities of the north in search of a better life. But the...

Over the Sea to Skye

Over the Sea to Skye
  • Author(s): Sue Moorcroft
  • Location(s): Isle of Skye, The Sleat Peninsula
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One summer on a beautiful island could change everything… Valentina Taylor’s life has been upended. With her marriage over, and unsure of what her future holds, she heads to the Isle of Skye for the summer with her young...

Overseas

Overseas
  • Author(s): Beatriz Williams
  • Location(s): France, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 20th Century and Modern

‘…a heady blend of wit, charm, and romantic sizzle, all wrapped around a tantalizing mystery.’ Anne Fortier, New York Times bestselling author When twenty-something Wall Street analyst Kate Wilson attracts the notice of the legendary Julian Laurence at a...

Oyster

Oyster
  • Author(s): Janette Turner Hospital
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction

This story of a cult messiah, Oyster, is set in an outback opal mining town in Queensland. The novel attempts to explore the clash of extreme cultural differences – the nature of evil, the relationship between good and evil...

Oz

Oz
  • Author(s): Bobbie Darbyshire
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s/modern

Mark’s life is a mess. He’s been cheating on his wife, fears his marriage is over, but can’t bear to leave his boisterous 7-year-old daughter, Matilda. Just when he thinks things can’t get worse, his mother is killed in...

Pacazo

Pacazo
  • Author(s): Roy Kesey
  • Location(s): Piura
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

John Segovia is many things – American, corpulent, shambolic, and obsessed with the history of South America. This history is what drew him to the city of Piura in the coastal desert of Peru, where every grain of sand...

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