Category: New Books
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Confessions
by Catherine Airey It is late September in 2001 and the walls of New York are papered over with photos of the missing. Cora Brady’s father is there, the poster she made taped to columns and bridges. Her mother died long ago and now, orphaned on the cusp of adulthood, Cora is adrift and alone.…
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Slough House
by Mick Herron Slough House – the crumbling office building to which failed spies, the ‘slow horses’, are banished – has been wiped from secret service records. Reeling from recent losses in their ranks, the slow horses are worried they’ve been pushed further into the cold, and fatal accidents keep happening. With a new populist…
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Atmosphere
by Taylor Jenkins Reid In the summer of 1980, astrophysics professor Joan Goodwin begins training to be an astronaut at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilot Hank Redmond; mission specialists John Griffin and Lydia Danes; warmhearted Donna Fitzgerald; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer.…
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The Butterfly Room
by Lucinda Riley Posy Montague is approaching her seventieth birthday. Still living in her beautiful Suffolk family home, Admiral House, she is surrounded by memories of her idyllic childhood catching butterflies with her beloved father, and of raising her own children. But Posy knows she must make an agonizing decision. Despite the memories the house…
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Slags
by Emma Jane Unsworth Once a slag, always a slag? It’s the 1990s. Sarah is 15, obsessed with boy bands, sex and getting drunk on Malibu. Most of all, she’s hung up on her teacher, Mr Keaveney. Fast forward 26 years. Sarah is 41, the last of the party girls. But the mad nights out…
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A Secret Escape
by Sarah Morgan A lifelong friendship Childhood friends Milly and Nicole had always been more like sisters so Milly never understood why Nicole dropped out of contact all those months ago. Milly buried that hurt and moved on with her life. A call for help Now, suddenly, Nicole is begging for Milly’s help. She needs…
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Winter Garden
by Kristin Hannah Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her family and manage the family apple orchard; the other followed a dream and travelled the world to become a famous photojournalist. But these two estranged women come together at their father’s deathbed standing alongside…
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Give Me The Mountains by Anne Swan
We have a local author who has signed their book ‘Give me the Mountains’ for us. The book is inspired by true events and Amazon says ‘A glorious fictionalised memoir of a young woman’s journey through wartime schooling, Finishing School, the London Season as a debutante, and more.’ This book is available to borrow at…
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A Death on Location
by Richard Coles It’s spring 1990, and in Champton the whole village is aflutter as a glamorous Hollywood movie has taken over Lord de Floures’ Champton House as its set location. As the actors and extras hired from the village don their farthingales, gowns and crowns for a masque set in the 1600s, a murder…
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Exploring the Thames Rivers and Streams
by Richard Mayon-White The River Thames is a beautifully rich and diverse 215-mile stretch of water that so many of us enjoy walking along – for half an hour, half a day, or days on end courtesy of the wonderful Thames Path. Explore further and you discover the Thames tributaries – the rivers and streams…