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Nothing Else

Nothing Else
  • Author(s): Louise Beech
  • Location(s): Caribbean, Hull, New York City (NYC), The Atlantic Ocean
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Heather Harris is a piano teacher and professional musician, whose quiet life revolves around music, whose memories centre on a single song that haunts her. A song she longs to perform again. A song she wrote as a child,...

Off Campus

Off Campus
  • Author(s): Amy Jo Cousins
  • Location(s): Massachusetts
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

With his father’s ponzi scheme assets frozen, Tom Worthington believes finishing college is impossible unless he can pay his own way. After months sleeping in his car and gypsy-cabbing for cash, he’s ready to do just that. But his...

Old Gold

Old Gold
  • Author(s): Jay Stringer
  • Location(s): Wolverhampton
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Half-gypsy detective Eoin Miller finds people for a living-usually people who would do anything to remain hidden. Ironic considering Eoin has done all he can to lose himself in a downward spiral that has cost him his job, his...

Omensetter’s Luck

Omensetter’s Luck
  • Author(s): William H Gass
  • Location(s): Ohio
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Greeted as a masterpiece when it was first published in 1966, Omensetter’s Luck is the quirky, impressionistic, and breathtakingly original story of an ordinary community galvanized by the presence of an extraordinary man. Set in a small Ohio town...

On Chesil Beach

On Chesil Beach
  • Author(s): Ian McEwan
  • Location(s): Dorset
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1962

It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come…

On the Floor

On the Floor
  • Author(s): Aifric Campbell
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1991

Geri Molloy is earning a huge salary working at a London investment bank just before the 1991 invasion of Kuwait. She is in on the verge of a breakdown, her boyfriend has left, she hardly sleeps and eats, and...

Once Bitten

Once Bitten
  • Author(s): Stephen Leather
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

There’s a full moon over Los Angeles, and for police psychologist Jamie Beaverbook that can only mean one thing: the crazies will be out in force. But when he is called into the station for a consult in the...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
  • Author(s): Ken Kesey
  • Location(s): Oregon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century looking back

Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electroshock therapy. But her regime is disrupted...

One for the Money (Stephanie Plum 1)

One for the Money (Stephanie Plum 1)
  • Author(s): Janet Evanovich
  • Location(s): New Jersey
  • Genre(s): Crime, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

Stephanie Plum is down on her luck. She’s lost her job, her car is about to be reposessed and she has sold much of her furniture…. Her cousin Vinnie is offering her a job to bring in vice cop,...

One Helluva Mess

One Helluva Mess
  • Author(s): Jean-Claude Izzo
  • Location(s): Marseilles (Marseille)
  • Genre(s): Crime

This is the same book as “Total Chaos”. Inspector Montale is forced to revisit his childhood in order to solve a crime

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