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July Henry's Sisters - by Cathy Lamb

This is a story about a family that’s fallen apart and ends up being put back together again. It’s about a Queen Anne house, a bakery, a motorcycle, a mid life crisis Corvette, flowery smelling pink letters, an amusing divorce, burning br...

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June This is the Day - by Daniel Blythe

To the outside world, Tom and Ella Barclay have everything: two beautiful children, a lovely home, great jobs and, of course, each other. But after fifteen years together the lines of communication have become blurred and with fortieth birthdays not ...

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May Stop Me - by Richard Jay Parker

A dark and gripping thriller that explores the dark phenomena of Internet celebrity, e-relationships and online obsession. Forward this email to ten friends each of those friends must forward it to ten friends maybe one of those friends of friend...

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April Objects of Desire - by C J Emerson

Shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Award, this dark and disquietening thriller touches on themes of indentity, deceit, vulnerability and isolation. When social worker, Jess Chadwick, moves from London to the Welsh borders, she hoped to leave her har...

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March First Fruits - by Penelope Evans

Kate Carr is the luckiest girl in the world. Everyone at school envies her because her father is such a charmer, the most mesmerising minister in Edinburgh. She is his first fruit, his only child, his offering. He is training her up in his image, to ...

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February Coffin Trail, The - by Martin Edwards

A riveting mystery set in a close-knit Lake District town which sees the reopening of a cold-case. When historican Daniel Kind moves into Tarn Cottage he didn\'t expect the previous owner, Barrie, to have been a murder suspect. The body of a woman wa...

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January Musician`s Daughter,The - by Rupert Holmes

1940, San Francisco. Ray Sherwood, a jazz saxophonist, arrives in town with the Jack Donovan Orchestra and plenty of bad memories. When he is propositioned by two beautiful women on his very first day, he feels his luck could be changing...until one ...

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December Muddy Boots & Silk Stockings - by Julia Stoneham

For ten volunteer Land Girls assigned to a Devonshire farm, the increasing momentum of war in Europe transcends the tensions of their traditionally estranged backgrounds and drives them together to support each other in matters of love and family. T...

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November Third Strike - by Zoë Sharp

Bodyguard and ex-Special Forces soldier Charlie Fox is recovering from gun shot wounds but itching to impress her boss and get back to work. What she didn\'t expect was to be drawn into a dangerous case of a personal nature. When she hears her eminen...

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October Changed Man, A - by Francine Prose

The compelling novel by one of America’s best-loved writers and National Book Award nominee. When a young neo-Nazi named Vincent Nolan walks into the headquarters of a human rights foundation headed by a charismatic Holocaust survivor, Meyer M...

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September Secret History of the Pink Carnation, The - by Lauren Willig

The first book in the New York Times Bestselling series that blends history, adventure, intrepid spies, romance and wit to produce a delightfully captivating read. Setting off for England, Eloise is determined to finish her dissertation on two spies...

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August River Angel - by Manette Ansay

A haunting and eloquent story of small town life from the author of Vinegar Hill, the million-copy bestseller and Oprah Book Club pick No one could have known that the small Midwestern town of Ambient would be changed forever by the arrival of young...

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July Crooked Pieces - by Sarah Grazebrook

Longlisted for the RNA Award, this is a compelling historical novel set in London during the Suffragette movement of the early 1900s.Maggie’s new position as a maid lifts her from East End poverty and brings her into the world of the suffragett...

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June Mystery Writer, The - by Jessica Mann

Reminiscent of the evocative Cornish setting that permeated Daphne Du Maurier’s books, Jessica Mann revives the haunting beauty of a region that inspires great writing. With Jessica herself playing a central role in the story, she beautifully s...

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May Little Children - by Tom Perrotta

"Not that they would, but if any of the other mothers had asked how it was that Sarah, of all people, had ended up married, living in the suburbs, and caring full-time for a small child, she would have blamed it on a moment of weakness. At least...

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April Girls of Tender Age - by Mary-Ann Tirone Smith

A moving memoir, set in the 1950s, combining a family portrait and true-crime story. Seen from the eyes of the little girl she was back then, Mary-Ann Tiron Smith offers a tender family picture of life in a rather unconventional family. Her mother, f...

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March Sophia's Secret - by Susanna Kearsley

Carolyn McClelland, a writer of historical novels, finds herself with a familiar enemy; writer’s block. A change of scenery leads her, and her book, in a whole new direction. Writing about the attempted Jacobite invasion of 1707, Carolyn takes ...

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