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The Scent of Lemon Leaves
Clara Sanchez
Having left her job and boyfriend, thirty-year-old Sandra decides to stay in a village on the Costa Brava in order to take stock of her life and find a new direction. She befriends Karin and Fredrik, an elderly Norwegian couple,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 21/06/2012

I Still Dream About You
Fannie Flagg
I Still Dream About You is a delectable romp of a novel. Part murder mystery, part feel-good comedy, it bursts with the Southern charm and good, old-fashioned wisdom that have become Fannie Flagg’s hallmark worldwide.
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2012

Tell the Wolves I'm Home
Carol Rifka Brunt
A deeply touching tale of an unlikely friendship in the face of tragedy. This is a simply stunning debut novel that had publishers fighting over it and deserves to be read. Originally from New York, Carol Rifka Brunt currently lives in...
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/06/2012

Wonder
R. J. Palacio
Wonder is the funny, sweet and incredibly moving story of Auggie Pullman. Born with a terrible facial abnormality, this shy, bright ten-year-old has been home-schooled by his parents for his whole life, in an attempt to protect him from the...
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/06/2012

The Summer We Came to Life
Deborah Cloyed
For Samantha, the vacation just feels wrong without Mina. Despite being surrounded by her friends—the closest thing she has to family—Mina's death has left Sam a little lost. Unsure what direction her life should take. Fearful that whatever decision she...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2012

The Secrets Between Us
Louise Douglas
Louise's books (this is her third) go from strength to strength. The Secrets Between Us is an exciting modern day gothic story full of drama, suspense, romance and quite a few heart-stopping moments. A chance encounter on holiday, for Sarah,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/05/2012

The Book of Summers
Emylia Hall
Beth Lowe has been sent a parcel. Inside is a letter informing her that her long-estranged mother has died, and a scrapbook Beth has never seen before. Entitled The Book of Summers, recording the seven glorious childhood summers Beth spent...
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/05/2012

Alice Bliss
Laura Harrington
June 2012 Debut of the Month. A heartbreaking story of love, loss and grief.
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/05/2012

An Inventory of Heaven
Jane Feaver
The few years Mavis Gaunt spent in the village of Shipleigh, Devon, as a wartime evacuee - away from London and her parents' loveless marriage - were sufficient for her to conceive of the place as a heavenly retreat. But...
Format: Hardback - Released: 17/05/2012

Home To Big Stone Gap
Adriana Trigiani
Adriana Trigiani does it again with this fourth addition to the Stone Gap saga. Her central character, Ave Maria, is as warm, funny and prickly as ever as she approaches middle age with all its problems: empty nest syndrome, health...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012

The Underside of Joy
Seré Prince Halverson
May 2012 Debut of the Month. Captivating, beautifully written with a real sense of location this is a heart wrenching story of modern motherhood that is a real emotional roller-coaster. STOP PRESS: For a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012

A Rural Affair
Catherine Alliott
May 2012 Book of the Month. Catherine Alliott is at her sparkling and brilliant best in this her latest feel-good read. Full of her trademark wit and characters you feel instantly drawn to....
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012

Heart-shaped Bruise
Tanya Byrne
May 2012 Debut of the Month. This gripping, provoking and emotional debut, written from the perspective of a troubled young girl in a young offenders institute awaiting trial for a vicious crime, is...
Format: Hardback - Released: 10/05/2012

Black Heart Blue
Louisa Reid
May 2012 Debut of the Month. Stunning, shocking, sad and incredibly touching. This debut tackles the horrors of domestic violence head on with beautiful writing and two amazing voices. Twin girls, one beautiful,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012

The Red House
Mark Haddon
Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky. After his mother's death, Richard, a newly remarried hospital consultant, decides to build bridges with his estranged sister, inviting Angela and her family...
Format: Hardback - Released: 10/05/2012

Her Giant Octopus Moment
Kay Langdale
When a surrogate mother pretends the pregnancy has miscarried, and bears a daughter - to whom does the child belong? To her runaway birth mother, or her deceived father and his wife? Scout, born as a result of a surrogacy...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012

The Time of My Life
Cecelia Ahern
Touching, warm, funny and poignant and a must for all of her fans. Cecelia Ahern's new novel has Lucy Silchester's Life as a central character (in fact he is a grumpy middle-aged man) who is out to sort out his...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012

Dreams of Joy
Lisa See
Set in 1950s China during Mao’s brutal ’great leap forward’ this heart-rending story of a mother's love is a gripping and mesmerising read. And with the research the author has done, an education as well. This book can be read...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012

The Playdate
Louise Millar
May 2012 Debut of the Month. This gripping contemporary thriller will have you turning the pages, and re-evaluating people you call friends. How do you know whether it’s dangerous to leave your children...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2012

That Summer in Ischia
Penny Feeny
May 2012 Debut of the Month. With intrigue, lost friendships and set on a sun-drenched Italian island, this is one of these stories that you just want to keep on reading. 25 years...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2012

That Summer at Hill Farm
Miranda France
Farmer Hayes loves the land - but hates farming. His neglected wife Isabel adores her three children, but is temperamentally unsuited to life as a wife and mother. The Smith sisters have not spoken to one another for forty years,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2012

Women of a Dangerous Age
Fanny Blake
May 2012 Book of the Month. Publisher turned author Fanny Blake has written another insightful, funny, addictive read that women will totally understand and men would do well to read in order to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2012

The Restaurant of Love Regained
Ito Ogawa
Returning home from work, Rinko is shocked to find that her flat is totally empty. Gone are her TV set, fridge and furniture, gone are all her kitchen tools, including the old Meiji mortar she has inherited from her grandmother...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2012

The Light Between Oceans
M. L. Stedman
May 2012 MEGA Debut of the Month. What a brilliant and memorable debut. Superb characters, heart-rending plot and, set on an island 100 miles from Australia, a uniquely beautiful setting. After the horrors...
Format: Hardback - Released: 26/04/2012

The Chaperone
Laura Moriarty
May 2012 Book of the Month. I am reminded of the 20s musical number "Anything Goes" here, for in "The Chaperone" it certainly does. This is 20s New York, the girl being chaperoned...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2012

All For You
Sheila O'Flanagan
The new fabulously addictive read from the No. 1 bestselling author As TV's favourite weather forecaster, Lainey is good at making predictions. But what she doesn't foresee is that her own life is about to hit a stormy patch. With...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2012

The Invisible Circus
Jennifer Egan
April 2012 Book of the Month. This is the stunning, emotional debut novel, first published in 1995, from the unclassifiable but excellent author Jennifer Egan. She gained fame after winning the Pulitzer Prize...
Format: Paperback - Released: 19/04/2012

Secrets of the Tides
Hannah Richell
April 2012 MEGA Debut of the Month. A sensitive, convincing and beautifully written novel. Full of descriptive power, it defines the beginnings and consequences of a family tragedy - from love and guilt...
Format: Hardback - Released: 12/04/2012

Can We Still Be Friends
Alexandra Shulman
April 2012 Debut of the Month. Written by the UK Editor of Vogue, a book - about how the future is never what you think it will be - that will stay with...
Format: Hardback - Released: 12/04/2012

The Weird Sisters
Eleanor Brown
April 2012 Debut of the Month. A trenchantly observant novel about the often warring emotions between sisters that threaten to pull apart but sometimes even draw together familial ties. It's at once hilarious,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 12/04/2012