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1) The lovers
Author
Publisher
Vintage Digital
Pub. Date
2022
Description
The remote alpine village of Fontana Fredda lives by the seasons. These quiet, complex rhythms appeal to Fausto, who has left the city of Milan behind, and with it his relationship. He takes a job as chef in a little restaurant and entrusts himself to new beginnings. Silvia is also seeking change: her sights are on the glaciers where, she has read, climbing a thousand metres towards the sky is equivalent to travelling ten times the same distance to...
2) Who they was
Author
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Pub. Date
2020
Description
An astonishing, visceral autobiographical novel about a young man straddling two cultures: the university where he is studying English Literature and the disregarded world of London gang warfare. The unforgettable narrator of this compelling, thought-provoking debut goes by two names in his two worlds. At the university he attends, he?s Gabriel, a seemingly ordinary, partying student learning about morality at a distance. But in his life outside the...
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020
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The newest novel from the New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs which explores the meaning of happiness, trust, and faith in oneself.Heartbroken Natalie Harper inherits her mother?s charming, cash-strapped bookshop and finds herself the carer for her ailing grandfather Andrew. She thinks it?s best to move him to an assisted-living home to ensure his care, but to pay for it, Natalie will have to sell up the bookshop. However, Grandpa Andrew...
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Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2020
Description
Brought to you by Penguin. It's a hot summer afternoon. Tension is in the air. A gang of youths on bikes gathers outside a chip shop. A teenage boy is stabbed and left bleeding on the street. The boy's motherwonders how this could have happened to her son. She is full of questions, but when the answers lie so close to home, are they really what she wants to hear? â™ Bernadine Evaristo 2010 (P) Penguin Audio 2020.
Author
Publisher
HQ
Pub. Date
2024
Description
From the author of The Change, comes a novel about book banning and those brave enough to stand up against this censorship. In Troy, Georgia, Lula Dean has decided to cleanse the town's reading habits. All banned books have been removed from public spaces, and the townspeople are only allowed to read books Lula has deemed 'appropriate'. But a small group refuse to be told what they can and can't read. The revolution is coming ...
Author
Publisher
Pan
Pub. Date
2024
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A Mother's Sorrow is a heart-rending family drama set around WW1 from bestselling author and Queen of the Saga, Margaret Dickinson. Three young women. Two families united. A bond that can?t be broken . . . Sheffield, 1892. Patrick Halliday rules his family with a rod of iron. He?s hard on both his wife and his elder daughter, Flora, but he spoils his youngest, Mary Ellen, because she reminds him of his beloved mother. When Mary Ellen, aged seventeen,...
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023
Description
Living in happy solitude with his cat Isaac Mewton in the Devon village of Millbrook, entertained by his mischievous chickens and goats, Robert has never figured out the rules of romance. But as the local ladies vie for his company, it soon becomes clear that Robert?s Victoria Sponge cake is the lure, and as his baking prowess grows, so does his confidence. Cheesecakes, meringues, puddings, Robert can do it all, but his real masterpieces are his scones...
Author
Publisher
Transworld Digital
Pub. Date
2020
Description
In 1973, twenty-year-old Moll Gladney takes a morning bus from her rural home and disappears. Bewildered and distraught, Paddy and Kit must confront an unbearable prospect: that they will never see their daughter again. Five years later, Moll returns. What - and who - she brings with her will change the course of her family's life forever.
Author
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2022
Description
A gripping and emotional cross-cultural love story for readers of Dilly Court and Glenda Young. 1897 Young Annie Maguire is leaving the only home she has ever known, the family farm in County Down, Ireland. Driven away by poverty and the death of Annie's mother, she and her beloved father are looking for a place to start again and settle in Cleator Moor, Cumberland. Robert McClure also grew up in County Down. The illegitimate son of a land agent and...
11) The vow
Author
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2020
Description
Two weeks before her wedding, a stranger stops Amy in the street and warns her she's in danger. Then that night, Matt, her fiance, doesn't come home. Desperate, Amy calls the police - but when Matt fails to emerge, she's forced to call off her wedding day. Then another man is reported missing, by a woman called Fiona - a man meeting Matt's description, who was about to leave his fiance for her. He was supposed to be moving in with her - but instead,...
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Series
Dream Harbor volume 1
Publisher
One More Chapter
Pub. Date
2023
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Description
A brand new grumpy/sunshine cozy romantic mystery to curl up with this Fall. When Jeanie?s aunt gifts her the beloved Pumpkin Spice Caf ÌŒin the small town of Dream Harbour, Jeanie jumps at the chance for a fresh start away from her very dull desk job. Logan is a local farmer who avoids Dream Harbour?s gossip at all costs. But Jeanie?s arrival disrupts Logan?s routine and he wants nothing to do with the irritatingly upbeat new girl, except that he...
14) Us three
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Pub. Date
2020
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Description
The new novel from Ruth Jones, author of the smash-hit, number one bestselling debut, Never Greener. Meet Lana, Judith and Catrin. Best friends since primary school when they swore an oath on a Curly Wurly wrapper that they would always be there for each other, come what may. After the trip of a lifetime, the three girls are closer than ever. But an unexpected turn of events shakes the foundation of their friendship to its core, leaving their future...
15) The dig
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Publisher
Penguin
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But on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind: Mrs Petty, the widowed farmer, has had her hunch proved correct that the strange mounds on her land hold buried treasure. As the dig proceeds against a background of mounting national anxiety, it becomes clear though that this is no ordinary find ... And pretty soon the discovery leads to all kinds of jealousies and tensions. John Preston's recreation of the Sutton Hoo dig - the...
16) Neighbours
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Pub. Date
2021
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Description
Neighbours, by the world's favourite storyteller Danielle Steel, is a novel of friendship, support, trust and love, and what it takes to bring people together. Sometimes a crisis can bring people together . . . Meredith White was one of Hollywood's most recognizable faces. But a personal tragedy cut her career short and alienated her from her family. For the last fifteen years, Meredith has shut herself away from the world, living in her San Francisco...
Author
Series
Dog and Duck volume 4
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023
Description
?Just the loveliest place to cosy up and escape to.' Beth Moran Life in Little Leyton is never quiet, and when handsome developer Max and his bride-to-be Ellie receive some sad news, he decides to whisk her away for a romantic break. The time away gives Ellie a new perspective, and she's eager to get home to get on with planning their wedding. But a devastating incident at the pub she runs, the Dog & Duck, puts everything in jeopardy. And at their...
Author
Publisher
Text Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Description
As romantic and creative sparks begin to fly, Frankie and Zeke make an unsigned poster that becomes unforgettable to anyone who sees it. Copies of their work are everywhere in town, and rumours start to fly about who might be behind the ubiquitous posters: Satanists? Kidnappers? Soon, the mystery has dangerous repercussions that spread further afield, and the art that brought Frankie and Zeke together now threatens to tear them apart. Twenty years...
19) A class act
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Robyn Allen is finally getting closer to her dream of West End stardom. And along with her role dancing in the latest hot musical, she?s being wined and dined by an equally hot man - the wildly successful and well-connected Fabian Carrington. But one slip up and her dreams are shattered, and Robyn has to hobble back to the Yorkshire village of Beddingfield, and the life she hoped she?d escaped. Moving back into her mum?s house with her recalcitrant...
20) Just like you
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Description
The person you are with is just like you: same background, same age, same interests. The perfect match. And it is a disaster. Then, when and where you least expect it, you meet someone new. You seem to have nothing in common and yet, somehow, it feels totally right. Nick Hornby's brilliantly observed, tender but also brutally funny new novel gets to the heart of what it means to fall surprisingly and headlong in love with the best possible person...