Tag: fiction
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Life As Planned
by Amanda Prowse For identical twins Remy and Ashleigh, everything changes with one childhood decision. A simple act of love that unwittingly alters the paths they will both walk―an act of love that will echo through decades… As the years unfold, their lives take dramatically different courses. Ashleigh soars through a glittering London career with…
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Shadows In Paris
by Rachel Henke January 1941 Special Operations Executive agent Lizzie Beaumont—codename Seagrove—faces her most dangerous mission yet: running a Resistance network in occupied Paris with Hannah, a Jewish operative who risks everything to infiltrate German High Command. Caught between duty and desire, Lizzie’s commanding officer and lover, Captain Jack King, must choose between sending her…
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My Husband’s Wife
by Alice Fenney Eden Fox, an artist on the brink of her big break, sets off for a run before her first exhibition. When she returns to the home she recently moved into – Spyglass, an enchanting old house in the pretty seaside village of Hope Falls – nothing is as it should be. Her…
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Half His Age
by Jennette McCurdy Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Wise. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Hurting. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of all? Mr. Korgy, her creative writing teacher. Mr Korgy, with the wife and the kid and the mortgage and the bills, with the dead dreams and the atrophied looks and the growing…
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Departure(s)
by Julian Barnes Departure(s) is the story of a man called Stephen and a woman called Jean, who fall in love when they are young and again when they are old. It is the story of an elderly Jack Russell called Jimmy, enviably oblivious to his own mortality. It is also the story of how the…
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The Ten Year Affair
by Erin Somers When Cora meets Sam at a baby group in their small town, the chemistry between them is instant and undeniable. But both are happily married, and neither is the type to cheat. So as their lives intertwine and the romantic tension between them heightens, Cora turns to her imagination: in her head,…
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A Neighbour’s Guide To Murder
by Louise Candlish Her secrets will be the death of you When Pixie moves into Columbia Mansions, divorced Gwen is quick to take the younger woman under her wing. But as Pixie becomes entangled with her charismatic landlord Alec, the lines of friendship begin to blur. With rumours of illicit goings-on swirling, Gwen soon realises…
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What We Can Know
by Ian McEwan A quest, a literary thriller and a love story, What We Can Know spans the past, present and future to ask profound questions about who we are and where we are going. 2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has…
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Silent Bones
by Val McDermid The truth is buried just beneath the surface . . . When torrential rain causes a landslide on a motorway in Scotland, it reveals a crime scene: someone hid a body in the tarmac eleven years before. Journalist Sam Nimmo had been the prime suspect in the murder of his fiancée when…
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The Correspondent
by Virginia Evans Every morning, Sybil Van Antwerp sits down to write letters – to her brother, to her best friend, to the president of the university who will not allow her to attend a class she desperately wants to take, to her favourite authors to tell them what she thinks of their latest books, and…