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Publisher
Canongate Canons
Pub. Date
2024
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This is the story of a home. A story rooted in love. The story of a poet born of an Irish jazz musician and a Jamaican go-go dancer, an absent father and a resilient mother. In Springfield Road, Salena Godden evokes an era when oranges seemed bigger and summers were longer, a world of half-penny sweets, free school milk, hand-me-downs and Thatcher?s Britain, for those too young to remember and for those old enough to know. For Salena, it was a time...
2) The swimmers
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Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2022
Description
Up above there are wildfires, smog alerts, epic droughts, paper jams, teachers' strikes, insurrections, revolutions, record-breaking summers of unendurable heat, but down below, at the pool, it is always a comfortable eighty-one degrees ... Alice is one of a group of obsessed recreational swimmers for whom their local swimming pool has become the centre of their lives - a place of unexpected kinship, freedom, and ritual. Until one day a crack appears...
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Description
1884 - When Betsan Morgan?s mother succumbs to a devastating illness, she doesn't think her life could get much worse. But then her father moves in his new beau, an unserious flitty woman and coincidentally also the bargirl in the pub he works in, and she soon learns her house is no longer a home. All she can do is sit in the attic and stare at the portrait of her mother. Her new stepmother, Elinor, couldn?t even let them have the grace of keeping...
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Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023
Description
New starts and hopeful hearts... At 25, Daisy May?s life is not living up to expectations. Her childhood dreams of being an artist feel as unachievable as a committed relationship or managing to save enough money for a deposit on a house. But a surprise inheritance could change all that. After Daisy learns she?s now the new owner of a forty-foot narrow boat, she sets out for Wildflower Lock, where the fresh country breeze and the calm water is enough...
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Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023
Description
New beginnings don?t always mean painful endings . . .A fabulous, timeless story of friendship set in Devon from bestselling author Jennifer Bohnet As time ebbs and flows over the summer both Katie Teague and her godmother Mattie Cranford discover their lives are at a crossroads Mattie shackled to the family wool shop for over 50 years, feels life has passed her by. She dreams of seeing the world and shaking off a lifetime of regrets. When Katie is...
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Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023
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It seemed like a good idea. Selling everything we owned. Just Mark and me, swapping our tiny, little, terraced London home - and the heartbreak of not being able to start a family - for an entire chateau in the middle of France? It?s everyone?s dream. And now it?s coming true for us. As I use the rusty key to open the big, creaking wooden door of the tumbledown fairytale chateau that?s officially our new home, I wonder: what could possibly go wrong?...
Author
Publisher
Mantle
Pub. Date
2022
Description
THE TIMES NOVEL OF THE YEAR A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2022 A GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BOOK OF THE YEAR 'It takes the most ferocious intelligence, skill, and a deep reservoir of sadness to write a novel as funny as this. I adored it' - Meg Mason, author of Sorrow & Bliss 'A devastating treat of a novel: funny, furious, dark and delicious' - Sarah Waters, author of Fingersmith Meet the Hanrahan family, gathering for a momentous weekend as famous artist and notorious...
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Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Description
They didn?t know - when Winter gave way to Spring that year - that their lives were all about to change? Marnie didn?t realise - when she stormed into a bookshop one day, demanding a self-help book - that she was about to make a new best friend. Bookshop-owner Rae didn?t know she had been living like a shadow since her parents died. But then Marnie exploded into her life. And suddenly she realised things had to change? more so when she meets handsome...
11) The final gambit
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Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2022
Description
Unwitting heiress Avery is close to claiming her fortune if she can survive another month living with the Hawthorne family.
12) It?s complicated
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2023
Description
Dee Jensen's life is about to get complicated... She's just found out that if she wants to start a family she needs to get on with it - fast. But her almost-definitely boyfriend Nat has almost-definitely just broken up with her. Could platonic co-parenting - where two friends have a child together with no romantic connection - be the easy answer? Dee finds herself suggesting the idea to a chef she's just met called Andy. And in the cold light of day...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury YA
Pub. Date
2024
Description
The outstanding novel from the Carnegie Medal-winning, former Laureate na ng Sarah Crossan; thought-provoking and incredibly moving, it explores love and family during The Great Hunger Ireland, 1846 Nell is working as a scullery maid in the kitchen of the Big House. Once she loved school and books and dreaming. But there's not much choice of work when the land grows food that rots in the earth. Now she is scrubbing, peeling, washing, sweeping...
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Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023
Description
Just four days ahead of her wedding, Lizzie Lavender receives a letter her mother wrote for her, a year ago, just before she died. Shocked into realising life is passing her by, she runs away, heading for the West Country, where she plans to clear her head and reconsider her options. Fate, however has its own ideas and Lizzie has no idea that a tiny village, two guardian angels and a host of new friends are exactly what she needs. And then there's...
16) The hero puppy
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Publisher
Stripes Pub
Pub. Date
2024
Description
When Billies parents are away, she and her new puppy Travis go to stay with her aunt but then Travis goes missing during a storm.
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Series
Harpers Emporium volume 3
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2020
Description
From the bestselling author of The Harpers Emporium and The Mulberry Lane Series. 1914 Oxford Street, London - There are hard times ahead for the Harpers Girls... It is two years since Harpers Emporium opened its doors and life is good for Sally and Ben Harper as they look forward to the arrival of their first child. Beth Burrows is settling into married life with Jack and is gradually recovering from her miscarriage and Aunt?s tragic death. Harpers...
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Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2021
Description
Life is tough for Ella Bancroft. After her father, Thomas, is wheelchair-bound by an accident at the tube works, the responsibility for keeping a roof over their head falls to Ella. Ella?s mother died when she was ten, and her sister Sally lives with her no-good, work-shy husband Eddy, so is no help at all. If she and her father are to keep the bailiffs from the door, then Ella must earn a living. But Ella is resourceful as well as creative, and soon...
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2022
Description
Will it be tears or triumph for the Hat Girl from Silver Street? It?s been five years since Ella Bancroft lost the love of her life, Harper Fortescue, and despite her friends? encouragement, she?s still not been able to move on. The one thing keeping Ella smiling is the success of her hat shop, Ivella. Her beautiful designs and fabulous creations are the first choice for the fashionable Edwardian ladies of Walsall, and her fame is spreading far and...