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The Orchardist

The Orchardist
  • Author(s): Amanda Coplin
  • Location(s): Pacific Northwest
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

At the turn of the twentieth century, in a remote stretch of Northwest America, a solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were his children. One day, two teenage girls steal his fruit at the...

The Orenda

The Orenda
  • Author(s): Joseph Boyden
  • Location(s): Ontario
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1640s

1640s: The New World In the remote winter landscape a brutal massacre and the kidnapping of a young Iroquois girl violently re-ignites a deep rift between two tribes. The girl s captor, Bird, is one of the Huron Nation...

The Orientalist and The Ghost

The Orientalist and The Ghost
  • Author(s): Susan Barker
  • Location(s): Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s to modern

Malaya 1951, Christopher Milnar falls passionately in love with Chinese nurse Evangeline in a jungle resettlement camp – an affair that ends in tragedy when, under attack from Communist guerrillas, Christopher is betrayed, beaten and left for dead. Half...

The Orphan Master

The Orphan Master
  • Author(s): Jean Zimmerman
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): Mid 17th Century

Set in New Amsterdam in the mid-17th century, Zimmerman’s nicely flowing narrative is animated by robust characters who thrive on the edges of civilization. Hardy Dutch colonists are the main inhabitants of this bustling community, but traders and adventurers...

The Orphan Master’s Son

The Orphan Master’s Son
  • Author(s): Adam Johnson
  • Location(s): North Korea
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Citizens of our beloved Democratic Republic of North Korea! Imagine the life of an orphan boy from nowhere who is plucked from his orphanage by the military, to be trained as a tunnel assassin, a kidnapper, a spy. He...

The Other Family

The Other Family
  • Author(s): Joanna Trollope
  • Location(s): London, Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Richie leaves his first wife and child (without going through the process of divorce) and goes off to live with another woman,and with her he fathers three daughters. His untimely death reveals the legal ramifications of his actions, and...

The Other Passenger

The Other Passenger
  • Author(s): Louise Candlish
  • Location(s): London, East London
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2019

You’re feeling pretty smug about your commute to work by riverboat. No more traffic gridlock or getting stuck on the tube in tunnels (you’re claustrophobic). Now you’ve got fresh air, an iconic Thames view, a whole lifestyle upgrade. You’ve...

The Other Side of Silence ( Bernie Gunther #11)

The Other Side of Silence ( Bernie Gunther #11)
  • Author(s): Philip Kerr
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1950s

The French Riviera, 1956. A world-weary Bernie Gunther is working under a false name as a hotel concierge. His attempts to keep his nose clean go horribly awry when a wartime acquaintance sucks him into a blackmail plot involving...

The Other Twin

The Other Twin
  • Author(s): L V Hay
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A stunning, dark and sexy debut thriller set in the winding lanes and underbelly of Brighton, centring around the social media world, where resentments and accusations are played out, identities made and remade, and there is no such thing...

The Out of Office Girl

The Out of Office Girl
  • Author(s): Nicola Doherty
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

When her boss Olivia is taken ill, Alice is sent on the work trip of a lifetime: to a villa in Sicily, to edit the autobiography of Hollywood bad boy Luther Carson. But it’s not all yachts, nightclubs and...

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