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The Old You

The Old You
  • Author(s): Louise Voss
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Nail-bitingly modern domestic noir A tense, Hitchcockian psychological thriller Louise Voss returns with her darkest, most chilling, novel yet… Lynn Naismith gave up the job she loved when she married Ed, the love of her life, but it was...

The One Day You Were My Husband

The One Day You Were My Husband
  • Author(s): Rosie Walsh
  • Location(s): England, Stockholm, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): early 2000s

FOUR HOURS AFTER SAYING ‘I DO,’ HE WAS GONE . . . Twelve years ago, Carrie married Johan on a beach in Thailand. But as the sun set on their perfect day, armed men swarmed the island and her...

The One Saving Grace

The One Saving Grace
  • Author(s): Julie Houston
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

When Harriet Westmoreland goes into labour with twins in Harvey Nichol’s men’s underwear department at exactly the moment she sets eyes on Alex Hamilton, it marks the start of a year of madness – for her, her family and,...

The One That Got Away

The One That Got Away
  • Author(s): Chartotte Rixon
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two years together. Twenty years apart. One day to change their story. Benjamin’s world is turned upside down the day he meets Clara. Instinctively, he knows that she is his person and he is hers, but the events of...

The One That I Want

The One That I Want
  • Author(s): Lynne Shelby
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Lucy Ashford lands a top job at a leading theatrical agency in London, work mixes with pleasure, as she literally falls into the arms of big screen heartthrob Daniel Miller. Handsome, charming and irresistible, Daniel is just what...

The Only Child

The Only Child
  • Author(s): Miranda Rijks
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Chantal, Stuart and their son are the perfect high-profile family. And it’s all built on a lie. A lie told by Chantal. When someone discovers her secret and starts to blackmail her she decides to fight fire with fire....

The Ordeal of Miss Lucy Jones

The Ordeal of Miss Lucy Jones
  • Author(s): Liz Shakespeare
  • Location(s): Torrington, Devon
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th century.

‘Burn ’em! Burn ’em!’ It is 1879, and a disorderly crowd of three thousand people are burning effigies of a local man and woman on Torrington Common in an unprecedented incident of Devon’s ‘rough music’. Lucy Jones, the free-spirited...

The Origin Stone

The Origin Stone
  • Author(s): Kathryn Rossati
  • Location(s): Egypt, England
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern day

Emily Renzi thinks she’s going crazy. After her parents move to a quiet village, she senses that something is off about the house they’re living in. Dreams of strange creatures invade her sleep, and mysterious shapes appear in the...

The Orphanage

The Orphanage
  • Author(s): Lizzie Page
  • Location(s): Lavenham
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1940s

This is the first book in a five-part post-war series set in the pretty village of Lavenham in Suffolk Shilling Grange Orphanage, England, 1948. She was their only hope. Now they are hers. A gritty, heartbreaking and unforgettable story...

The Orphanage Girls Come Home

The Orphanage Girls Come Home
  • Author(s): Mary Wood
  • Location(s): London, Canada
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1910/1919

‘These heartbreaking but also inspirational tales are full of the grit and hardship that have become hallmarks of a storyteller who writes straight from the heart.’ – Lancashire Evening Post London, 1910 When Amy is chosen to be a...

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