Category: New Books
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Write It All Down
by Cathy Rentzenbrink Quick Reads 2025 Tackle the challenges of memoir writing and share your story in this Quick Reads edition of Write It All Down. ‘Cathy is the person who first told me to write about my mental health when I was nervous to do so. She is a great writer herself and this is…
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Gallows Wood
by Louise Scarr The signs are unmistakable. The dog halts, his nose up – nostrils quivering. Every inch of him is poised. Moss has a scent. When a hand is found in Gallows Wood, PC Lucy Halliday and her specialist search dog Moss must find the rest of the body. What they uncover is a killer’s dumping…
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We Do Not Part
by Han Kang Beginning one morning in December, We Do Not Part traces the path of Kyungha as she travels from the city of Seoul into the forests of Jeju Island, to the home of her old friend Inseon. Hospitalized following an accident, Inseon has begged Kyungha to hasten there to feed her beloved pet bird, who…
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Date With Destiny
by Julia Chapman From death to danger and malice to mystery, Samson and Delilah have weathered many storms. Finally, things should be going smoothly. Except life’s never that simple in Bruncliffe, is it? As the couple are beset with worries about their upcoming wedding, a charismatic celebrity comes knocking on the Dales Detective Agency’s door,…
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Wintering
by Katherine May Wintering is a poignant and comforting meditation on the fallow periods of life, times when we must retreat to care for and repair ourselves. Katherine May thoughtfully shows us how to come through these times with the wisdom of knowing that, like the seasons, our winters and summers are the ebb and flow…
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Nobody’s Fool
by Harlan Coben A year after the devastating events that took place in Fool Me Once, a secret from former Detective Sami Kierce’s college days comes back to haunt him. Present day is hard enough for Kierce, but his past isn’t through with him yet… Sami Kierce, a young college grad backpacking in Spain with friends,…
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Murder In My Backyard
by Ann Cleaves Murder in My Backyard is the second mystery novel in the Inspector Ramsay series by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series. No one in Heppleburn has a bad word to say about Alice Parry . . . but here she is, murdered in her own backyard on a…
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The Impossible Thing
by Belinda Bauer It was the greatest mystery never told . . . 1926. On the towering cliffs of Yorkshire, men are lowered on ropes to steal the eggs of the sea birds who nest there. The most beautiful are sold for large sums. But when small and hungry Celie Sheppard finds an ‘impossible’ red…
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The Inheritance
by Trisha Sakhkecha On a private island off the west coast of Scotland, the Agarwals gather for a much-awaited family reunion. Raj, the patriarch and business tycoon, who has six weeks to decide how to split his petrochemicals empire between his three children. Shalini, the fragile mother, who longs to see her family healed. Myra, the eldest…
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The Peacock and the Sparrow
by I.S.Berry The thrilling debut from author and former CIA officer I.S. Berry, following an American spy’s last dangerous mission. Shane Collins, a world-weary CIA spy, is ready to come in from the cold. Stationed in Bahrain for his final tour, he’s anxious to dispense with his mission ― uncovering Iranian support for the insurgency.…