Tag: June-2025
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No One Saw A Thing
by Andrea Mara Two children get on the train. Only one gets off… No one saw it happen.Your two little girls jump on the train ahead of you. As you try to join them, the doors slide shut and the train moves away, leaving you behind. Everyone is lying.It’s only when you reach the next…
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The England Coast Path
by Stephen Neale The definitive guidebook to the entire 3,000-mile length of the new England Coast Path. For anyone planning a trip to the coast or a UK summer holiday, the new England Coast Path national trail is a hugely exciting prospect, and this guidebook shows you how to make the most of every single…
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How Not To Be A Political Wife
by Sarah Vine How Not to Be a Political Wife is an unflinching account of life at the heart of politics, and what it’s like to have politics rip the heart out of your life. It’s a story of high hopes and dirty tricks, broken friendships and divided loyalties, laughter and glamour. Recollections, as a great…
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Doggedly Onward – A Life In Poems
by Pam Ayres ‘When I look over the poems in this book, I can trace the course of my life. The various stages are all here: the young woman juggling various boyfriends, the wife adrift amid the joy and terror of new motherhood, and the astounded, adoring granny. Here is the cavalcade of much-loved dogs,…
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We Are All Guilty Here
by Karin Slaughter Welcome to North Falls. A small town where everyone knows everyone. But nobody knows the truth. Emmy Clifton has lived here all her life. She thinks she knows her neighbours. She’s wrong. She thinks it’s just another hot summer night: a night like any other. She’s wrong. When her best friend’s daughter asks for…
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Am I Having Fun Now
by Suzi Ruffell ‘I’ve been fighting anxiety since I was a little kid, and I assumed it would always just be there, something that plagued me constantly, a bogeyman ready to jump out as soon as I lowered my guard. I’ll be honest, it was exhausting. I knew it HAD to change. Approaching 40, with a…
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Private Revolutions
by Yuan Yang Yuan Yang, the first Chinese-born British MP, tells the stories of four Chinese women striving for a better future in an unequal society. From June, who dreams of going to university rather than raising pigs, to Sam, forced into hiding as her activist peers are lifted from the streets, this is a…
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Sleep: A Very Short Introduction
by Stephen Lockley & Russell Foster Why do we need sleep? How much sleep is enough? What is sleep? What happens when we don’t get enough? We spend about a third of our lives asleep – it plays a crucial role in our health and wellbeing. References to sleep abound in literature and art, and sleep has…
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The First Gentleman
by Bill Clinton and James Patterson The President of the United States is up for re-election. Her husband is on trial for murder. Is the First Gentleman a killer? A pair of brilliant investigative journalists set out to answer that burning question. Bill Clinton reveals key White House details in murderous new political thriller… It’s…
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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.…