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1) Labor day
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
As the end of summer approaches and a long, hot Labor Day weekend looms, the life of lonely thirteen-year-old Henry Wheeler is irrevocably changed when he and his emotionally fragile mother show kindness to a stranger with a terrible secret. Now a major motion picture starring Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin.
Author
Publisher
Raven Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
'A thought came to me that I couldn't force away: What we are wearing is how we'll be identified out in the wilderness.' Win Allen doesn't want an adventure. After a miserable divorce and the death of her beloved brother, she just wants to spend some time with her three best friends, far away from her soul-crushing job. But athletic, energetic Pia has other plans. Plans for an adrenaline-raising, breath-taking, white-water rafting trip in the Maine...
Author
Series
Jackson Brodie volume 4
Language
English
Description
'Started Early, Took My Dog' is the fourth novel in the bestselling sequence that started with 'Case Histories'. It again features the beguiling former detective Jackson Brodie, who was also seen in 'One Good Turn' and 'When Will There Be Good News?'.
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Bonnier audio
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Cambridge Fens, 1938. Little Rosanna is part of a close-knit Fenland family and the youngest of three cousins. In a time of childhood abandon and adventures on the water, life couldn't be more perfect. But things are not always as they seem. When Rosanna's new baby brother is born, tragedy strikes the family. And, with the outbreak of World War II just around the corner, and a move to the Norfolk countryside, Rosanna's life is changed forever....
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Timothy Gandy has kept his lifetime's ambition secret for 40 years. Now, suddenly (if tragically) released from the hen-pecked tedium of his ordinary existence, he is unexpectedly free to realise his dreams. He will embark on a Grand Tour of Europe, following in the footsteps of the aristocrats of the 18th century. He anticipates high art, culture and pleasant weather. He never expected to encounter new friendships - and possibly even love - along...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Bonnier audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Alex Taylor wakes up tied to an operating table. The man who stands over her isn't a doctor. The choice he forces her to make is utterly unspeakable. But when Alex re-awakens, she's unharmed - and no one believes her horrifying story. Ostracised by her colleagues, her family and her partner, she begins to wonder if she really is losing her mind. And then she meets the next victim. So compulsive you can't stop listening. So chilling you won't stop...
Author
Publisher
Mills & Boon
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A past kiss... a happy-ever-after? For ex-army surgeon Mysti, a return to Forgotten Point is not on the cards... Until a tragic accident whilst on duty leads her home. Her physical wounds might be healing, but it's the invisible scars that remain. So the last thing Mysti needs is to bump into Dr Jesse Grove: her unexpected new colleague and the one that got away. Now Jesse's a single dad, with his own hidden pain... Can they heal - together?
Author
Publisher
Corvus
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
So when her new boyfriend decides it's time to sell up and move to the South of France, she decides in seconds to change her life. After all, who wouldn't pick an azure sea, aperitifs and sunshine over a dreary commute and a rainy climate? She hadn't expected a tumbledown farmhouse in the middle of nowhere. Or a motley assortment of surly builders, eccentric farmers and a resentful, terrifying neighbour...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Digital
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A Chinese writer whose marriage has fallen apart travels to Tibet. As he wanders through the countryside, he witnesses the sky burial of a Tibetan woman who died during childbirth, shares a tent with a nomad who is walking to a sacred mountain to seek forgiveness for sleeping with his daughter, meets a silversmith who has hung the wind-dried corpse of his lover to the walls of his cave, and hears the story of a young female incarnate lama who died...
10) Me before you
Author
Series
Me Before You volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick. What Lou doesn't know is she's about to lose her job or that knowing what's coming is what keeps her sane. Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live. He knows everything feels very small and rather joyless now and he knows exactly how he's...
11) The editors wife
Author
Publisher
Cornerstone Digital
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
When aspiring novelist Christopher Flinders drops out of university to write his masterpiece (in between shifts as a fish delivery man and builder's mate), his family is sceptical. But when he is taken up by the London editor Owen Goddard and his charming wife Diana it seems success is just around the corner. Christopher's life has so far been rather short of charm - growing up in an unlovely suburb, with unambitious parents and a semi-vagrant brother...
12) After the party
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is the summer of 1938 and Phyllis Forrester has returned to England after years abroad. Moving into her sister's grand country house, she soon finds herself entangled in a new world of idealistic beliefs and seemingly innocent friendships. Fevered talk of another war infiltrates their small, privileged circle, giving way to a thrilling solution: a great and charismatic leader, who will restore England to its former glory. At a party hosted by her...
Author
Publisher
Interlink Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Funny and sad, satirical and humane, this novel tells the interlinked stories of three unforgettable men whose trajectories cross in Denmark: the flamboyant Ravi, the fundamentalist Karim, and the unnamed and pragmatic Pakistani narrator. As the unnamed narrator copes with his divorce, and Ravidespite his exterior of skeptical flamboyancefalls deeply in love with a beautiful woman who is incapable of responding in kind, Karim, their...
14) Atonement
Author
Language
English
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Description
'Atonement' is the novel for which Ian McEwan will always be remembered. Enthralling in its depiction of childhood, love and war, class and England, at its centre is a profound and profoundly moving exploration of shame and forgiveness.
15) Birdcage walk
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
It is 1792 and Europe is seized by political turmoil and violence. Lizzy Fawkes has grown up in Radical circles where each step of the French Revolution is followed with eager idealism. But she has recently married John Diner Tredevant, a property developer who is heavily invested in Bristol's housing boom, and he has everything to lose from social upheaval and the prospect of war. Soon his plans for a magnificent terrace built above the 200ft drop...
16) The winter rose
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Language
English
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Description
It's December 1902, and Rose O'Leary is looking forward to her baby girl's first Christmas. But then tragedy strikes - her husband dies at the shipyard where he works, and within days his friend Nathaniel makes it plain he's determined to have her. Rose flees with her child but soon finds the world is a cruel place for a beautiful woman with no protection. More tragedy ensues, and yet, although she's bruised and broken, Rose is a fighter. Then, when...
17) Clock dance
Author
Language
English
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Description
Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life: when she was eleven and her mother disappeared, being proposed to at twenty-one, the accident that would make her a widow at forty-one. At each of these moments, Willa ended up on a path laid out for her by others. So when she receives a phone call telling her that her son?s ex-girlfriend has been shot and needs her help, she drops everything and flies across the country. The spur-of-the...
18) Stepping up
Author
Language
English
Description
Beth has never stuck at anything. She's quit more jobs and relationships than she can remember. Its not that she hasn't TRIED to grow up; it's just that the only commitment she's held down so far is Friday drinks at the village pub. Then, in the space of a morning, her world changes. An unspeakable tragedy turns her life upside down, and she finds herself guardian to her teenage niece and toddler nephew; catapulted into an unfamiliar world of bedtime...
19) Reflections
Author
Language
English
Description
After her husband dies, Cara no longer wishes to live in their London home. On impulse, she sells it and goes to stay with her brother in Salcombe, Devon, while she plans her next move. There, she begins to look back at her life and reflect on the choices that have led her to this moment. Cosmo has also escaped - temporarily - from his life in the city, finding the south-west a relaxing and appealing fit, especially when he meets local girl, Amy....
20) Fly away
Author
Publisher
Pan
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Celebrity news reporter and presenter, Tully Hart, has hit rock bottom. Kate Ryan had been her best friend for more than thirty years. They?d lived, laughed, danced and cried together. Kate had been her anchor, and now Tully was cast adrift - not knowing how she was going to survive. Kate?s daughter, Marah, was only sixteen years old when her mother died. Consumed with guilt over the fights they?d had during the last months of Kate?s life, Marah runs...
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