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Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh Evelyn Waugh’s beloved masterpiece, with an introduction by Paula Byrne The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh’s novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder’s infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first…
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Lost Lambs
by Madeleine Cash Think your family is dysfunctional? Meet the Flynns. For the three Flynn daughters, it’s been disastrous since their parents opened up their marriage. Abigail, the eldest, is dating an ex-soldier several years her senior nicknamed ‘War Crimes Wes’. Louise, the middle child, maintains a secret correspondence with an online terrorist. And the brilliant youngest, Harper,…
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Theo Of Golden
by Allen Levi One morning, a stranger arrives in the town of Golden. No one knows who he is or where he came from… His name is Theo and he’s arrived there by chance – or has he? He visits the local coffeehouse, where ninety-two pencil portraits hang on the walls, portraits by a local…
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The Holiday Escape
by Heidi Swain Ally and her dad, Geoff, run the family business, a creative retreat, from their home Hollyhock Cottage in picturesque Kittiwake Cove. They give their guests their dream break, but Ally hankers after glamourous city living, fancy restaurants and art galleries. Ally’s survival strategy is to escape out of season, take a break…
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Howards End
by E.M.Forster ‘The poor cannot always reach those whom they want to love, and they can hardly ever escape from those whom they love no longer. We rich can’ ‘Only connect.’ is the idea at the heart of this book, a heartbreaking and provocative tale of three families at the beginning of the twentieth century:…
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Common Decency
by Tom Allen It may be quiet in the suburbs, but it’s far from peaceful . . . Oak Drive can be found nestled tidily in an unassuming English town. Its uniform front gardens overlook a midsized common which the street’s residents survey with quiet, some might say smug, pride. This is the sort of…
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John Of John
by Douglas Stuart The stunning new novel from the Booker Prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author of SHUGGIE BAIN and YOUNG MUNGO. Out of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry home to the island of Harris to find that not much has changed except for him. In the windswept croft where…
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The Midnight Train
by Matt Haig When your life flashes before your eyes, where would you stop? No one can change the past, but the Midnight Train can take you there.The chance to re-live the moments that meant most.To see what kind of person you really were. For Wilbur his best days were with Maggie, the love of…
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Look What You Made Me Do
by John Lanchester From the Booker Prize longlisted author of The Wall, comes his first novel in eight years. What if the year’s most talked about TV show was all about your marriage? Kate, 30 years into her marriage, has a seemingly idyllic metropolitan, North London life. Phoebe, a young screenwriter, is the creator of the…
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The Secret Librarian
by Soraya M. Lane New York, 1942: Avery is engaged to be married. Longing for adventure instead, she jumps at an unexpected offer to trade her library job for undercover intelligence-gathering in Portugal. But her new life in Lisbon, known as the Capital of Espionage, challenges everything she thought she knew about herself. Local bookshop…