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Between life and death there is a library. When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right. Up until now, her life has been full of misery and regret. She feels she has let everyone down, including herself. But things are about to change. The books in the Midnight Library enable Nora to live as if she had done things differently. With the help of an old friend, she can now undo every one of her regrets as...

2) The flatshare

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O'Leary, Beth

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Tiffy and Leon share a flat. Tiffy and Leon share a bed. Tiffy and Leon have never met... Tiffy Moore needs a cheap flat, and fast. Leon Twomey works nights and needs cash. Their friends think they're crazy, but it's the perfect solution: Leon occupies the one-bed flat while Tiffy's at work in the day, and she has the run of the place the rest of the time. But with obsessive ex-boyfriends, demanding clients at work, wrongly-imprisoned brothers and,...

3) All the lonely people

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Gayle, Mike

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In weekly phone calls to his daughter in Australia, widower Hubert Bird paints a picture of the perfect retirement, packed with fun, friendship and fulfilment. But Hubert Bird is lying. The truth is, day after day drags by without him seeing a single soul. Until, that is, he receives some news - news that will force him out again, into a world he has long since turned his back on. Now Hubert faces a seemingly impossible task: to make his real life...

4) The keeper of lost things

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Hogan, Ruth

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Once a celebrated author of short stories now in his twilight years, Anthony Peardew has spent half his life lovingly collecting lost objects, trying to atone for a promise broken many years before. Realising he is running out of time, he leaves his house and all its lost treasures to his assistant Laura, the one person he can trust to fulfil his legacy and reunite the thousands of objects with their rightful owners. But the final wishes of the Keeper...

5) Before the coffee gets cold

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Kawaguchi, Toshikazu

6) The lido

7) This entry no longer exists in the catalogue

8) The keeper of stories

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Page, Sally

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Cleaner Janice knows that it is in people's stories that you really get to know them. From recently-widowed Fiona and her son Adam; to opera-singing Geordie; and the awful Mrs 'YeahYeahYeah' and her fox terrier, Decius, Janice has a unique insight into the community around her. When Janice starts cleaning for Mrs B - a shrewd and tricksy woman in her nineties - she finally meets someone who wants to hear her story. But Janice is clear: she is the...

9) The burnout

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Kinsella, Sophie

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*** The INSTANT Sunday Times bestseller *** Discover the joy that awaits when you set yourself free... Sasha is well and truly over it all: work (all-consuming), friendships (on the back burner), sex-life (non-existent). Sasha has hit a brick wall (literally). Armed with good intentions to drink kale smoothies, try yoga and find solitude, she heads to the Devon resort she loved as a child. But it's off-season, the hotel is falling apart and now she...

10) Love untold

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Jones, Ruth

11) Us three

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Jones, Ruth

12) This entry no longer exists in the catalogue

13) The wartime book club

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Thompson, Kate

14) Happy place

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Henry, Emily

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Two exes. One pact. Could this holiday change everything? Harriet and Wyn are the perfect couple - they go together like bread and butter, gin and tonic, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. Every year, they take a holiday from their lives to drink far too much wine with their favourite people in the world. Except this year, they are lying through their teeth, because Harriet and Wyn broke up six months ago. And they still haven't told anyone. But the...

15) Funny story

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Henry, Emily

16) Way back

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Cox, Sara

17) The lost bookshop

Author

Woods, Evie

18) In the summertime

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Haran, Maeve

19) The satsuma complex

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Mortimer, Bob

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My name is Gary. I?m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To describe me as anonymous would be unfair but to notice me other than in passing would be a rarity. I did make a good connection with a girl, but that blew up in my face and smacked my arse with a fish slice. Gary Thorn goes for a pint with a work acquaintance called Brendan. When Brendan leaves early, Gary meets a girl in the pub. He doesn?t catch her name,...

20) Someone else's shoes

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Moyes, Jojo

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Nisha Cantor lives the globetrotting life of the seriously wealthy, until her husband announces a divorce and cuts her off. Nisha is determined to hang onto her glamorous life. But in the meantime, she must scramble to cope - she doesn?t even have the shoes she was, until a moment ago, standing in. That?s because Sam Kemp, in the bleakest point of her life, has accidentally taken Nisha?s gym bag. But Sam hardly has time to worry about a lost gym bag...