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The Forever Home
by Erica Jones In the glorious Cambridgeshire countryside, Hope Hall was once a grand country house, but it’s now been converted into beautiful luxury apartments and its new residents are moving in… Cassie is blissfully in love with her partner Ben and looking forward to life in their new home, but shadows from Cassie’s first marriage…
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The Barbecue at No.9
by Jennie Godfrey It’s the summer of 1985 and the residents of Delmont Close are preparing a neighbourhood barbecue to watch the biggest music event in history: Live Aid. A day like no other that will end having reached millions and changing the lives of all who attend.House-proud Lydia Gordon, whose idols are Princess Di and…
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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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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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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…
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Wild Dark Shore
by Charlotte McConaghy A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A storm gathering force. Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny weather-lashed island that is home to the world’s largest seed bank. As Shearwater risks being lost to rising sea levels, the island’s researchers have fled,…
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Finding Belle
by Reeta Chakrabarti What will it take to uncover her past? A lost child. When Mivvi is young, her mother Belle is a puzzle: beautiful, troubled, and, terrifyingly, increasingly disconnected from the world. A displaced mother. Belle came to England upon her marriage, a whirlwind romance from the beaches of Mombasa to the English suburbs.…
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Tides of Resistance
by Rachel Henke April 1942SOE agent Lizzie Beaumont infiltrates Nazi-occupied St. Malo on a deadly assignment by order of Churchill: extract intelligence on Hitler’s Atlantic Wall fortifications, designed to block the Allied invasion. But when she’s drawn into the dangerous world of aristocratic SS officer Adler—the Eagle—her mission takes a sinister turn. Meanwhile, within the…
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The Christmas Retreat
by Trisha Ashley Ginny Spain usually loves Christmas: wrapping up warm by a cosy fire, putting twinkling lights on the tree… But after breaking up with her ex, her festive spirit has deserted her. This year, she plans to hide away and spend the holiday alone. Her formidable mother, Evie, has other ideas. Dragging Ginny…
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Flesh
by David Szalay Fifteen-year-old István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town and shy, he is unfamiliar with the social rituals at school and soon becomes isolated, with his neighbour – a married woman close to his mother’s age – as his only companion. As these encounters…