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Featured Books
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Truly Madly Guilty Liane Moriarty May 2017 Book of the Month. Simply fabulous, this is a truly beautiful, mind-popping story. I must admit to jigging up and down with excitement when ‘Truly Madly Guilty’ arrived on my desk, Liane Moriarty has... Format: Paperback - Released: 20/04/2017 
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See You in September Charity Norman May 2017 Book of the Month. Gosh, what a stunning read this is, I simply couldn't put it down and devoured it in one glorious sitting! Cassy travels half way around the... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2017
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The Last Painting of Sara de Vos Dominic Smith May 2017 Book of the Month. A rather beautiful and entirely captivating tale, set in several time periods, framing passion, deception, love and loss. In the 1600’s artist Sara channels her despair... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2017
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Lyrebird Cecelia Ahern May 2017 Book of the Month. Just so, so gorgeous! Laura lives on her own in the woodland wilds of South West Ireland, a film crew discover she has a special gift,... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2017
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Chance Developments Unexpected Love Stories Alexander McCall Smith May 2017 Book of the Month. Explore in ‘Chance Developments’ five charming and poignant short stories. I absolutely adore the premise for this little book and the cover just invites you in. ... Format: Paperback - Released: 11/05/2017
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Sweetpea C. J. Skuse May 2017 Book of the Month. A Maxim Jakubowski selected title. The first adult novel by an acclaimed children's book author, Sweet Pea hits all the right buttons.... Format: Hardback - Released: 20/04/2017
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Septimania Jonathan Levi An exuberantly entertaining magic realist quest that sees a Cambridge Organ Scholar travel to Rome in search of love, with extraordinarily unexpected results. It all started with a pip, for it was The Pip that brought Malory and maths genius... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2017
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A Guide for the Perplexed Jonathan Levi A flamboyantly fantastical literary voyage in which two strangers stranded at a Spanish airport during a strike are brought together by their mutual travel agent, whose Guide for the Perplexed travel book they both have. Executed with intellectual and sensual... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2017
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The Dead House Billy O'Callaghan May 2017 Debut of the Month. A beautifully eerie tale, a feast for your eyes, a torment for your mind. The exquisite cover immediately called to me, I found myself bewitched and reaching out to touch... Format: Hardback - Released: 01/05/2017
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Under a Sardinian Sky Sara Alexander May 2017 Debut of the Month. An expressive and heartfelt relationship tale set in a gloriously evocative 1950’s Sardinia. Carmela is engaged to the son of the town’s wealthiest family, however finds herself questioning his overbearing... Format: Paperback - Released: 20/04/2017
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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman May 2017 Debut of the Month. It is the standard reply when people ask, “How are you?” ....you say “I’m fine.” Well, Eleanor is most definitely not fine and has not been since she was 10... Format: Hardback - Released: 18/05/2017
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A New Map of Love Abi Oliver An entertaining and charmingly poignant portrait of a provincial widower’s burgeoning new life following the death of his wife. It’s 1964, and 57 year-old antiques dealer George has lost his wife after they’ve lived a contented sort of life for... Format: Hardback - Released: 20/04/2017
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The Light We Lost Jill Santopolo May 2017 Debut of the Month. My goodness me did these two have a passion, a chemistry that burned so bright it was painful to behold. They, Lucy and Gabe, met on... Format: Hardback - Released: 18/05/2017
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The Last Days of Summer Sophie Pembroke This book is easy to fall in love with, it’s delightfully warm and captivating, with gripping notes of intrigue. Saskia returns to her grandparents home of Rosewood after two years spent avoiding her family, can she survive a golden wedding... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2017
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Dead to Me Lesley Pearse Another dramatic and engagingly expressive historical novel by Lesley Pearse. Set before and during the Second World War, we follow Ruby and Verity during the ups and downs of their young lives. Ruby has a less than auspicious beginning, while... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2017
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The Summerhouse by the Sea Jenny Oliver Ahh, this is a lovely, warm-hearted, treasure of a read. Siblings Ava and Rory take a trip down memory lane when they attend their grandmother’s funeral in Spain. Will a summer in the sun help them find themselves, to rediscover... Format: Paperback - Released: 18/05/2017
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Blood Sisters Julie Shaw A tense, vivid, standalone tale set in the early 1980’s from the author of ‘The Tales of the Notorious Hudson Family’ series. Vicky and Lucy are best friends, when they leave school they take different paths as they fall... Format: Paperback - Released: 20/04/2017
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Billionaires' Banquet An Immorality Tale for the 21st Century Ron Butlin This exceedingly original novel evokes the zeitgeist of Thatcher’s Britain with wit, humour and an exhilaratingly zesty touch.Living in mid-eighties Edinburgh, Hume feels somewhat bewildered by the changing social landscape. He observes, on one hand, that Thatcher’s “new... Format: Paperback - Released: 15/04/2017
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One Endless Summer Laurie Ellingham Pacey, poignant and eminently entertaining, this bittersweet book about living life to the full makes a wonderfully warm-hearted companion to take into the garden on a sunny Sunday afternoon.Lizzie, Jaddi and Samantha have been planning to take a... Format: Paperback - Released: 20/04/2017
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The Blood Miracles Lisa McInerney Another outstanding, compelling read from Lisa McInerney, winner of the 2016 Desmond Elliott Prize and winner of the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2016. Having devoured and raved about ‘The Glorious Heresies’ (one of our Books of the Year... Format: Hardback - Released: 20/04/2017
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Small Great Things Jodi Picoult Just incredible… this punchy, beautiful, readable story vibrates with a powerful energy. After Turk Bauer accuses nurse Ruth Jefferson of murdering his new born son, Kennedy McQuarrie defends Ruth in court. Each of the three main characters, in their own... Format: Paperback - Released: 20/04/2017
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Bridget Jones's Baby The Diaries Helen Fielding Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2017. As Bridget careers towards baby-deadline, tortured by Smug Mothers miming her ticking biological clock, a series of classic Bridget Jones moments finally leads her into pregnancy - but just... Format: Hardback - Released: 11/10/2016
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The Other Us Fiona Harper Initially you think this could be a time travel novel or alternative universe tale but then you discover it is a clever device to allow the protagonist to explore her life. Once you accept there are no explanations offered for... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2017
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Island of Secrets Patricia Wilson May 2017 Debut of the Month. Right from the start we realise this is a Montague/Capulet situation; a feud between families, in this case from Crete, that spills blood only here our... Format: Paperback - Released: 18/05/2017
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The Girlfriend Michelle Frances A girl. A boy. His mother. And the lie she'll wish she'd never told. The Girlfriend by Michelle Frances is a gripping and chilling debut psychological thriller, based on the fall-out following an unforgiveable lie. Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2017
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Mr Gandy's Grand Tour Alan Titchmarsh The new bestselling novel from Britain's favourite gardener and TV presenter Alan Titchmarsh. Mr Gandy escapes his humdrum life with an unexpected Grand Tour of Europe where drama, romance and friendship await in this beguiling tale of self-discovery. Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2017
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The Last Night Cesca Major Two women, separated by years, tied by secrets untold and haunted by tragedies that could not be foreseen. In a peaceful coastal village, Irina spends her days quietly restoring furniture, hiding from a long-held family secret. When an antique bureau... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2017
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Modern Lovers Emma Straub Summer might be fading over the horizon but Straub's new novel is a perfect summer novel for all seasons: witty, touching, humane and gently humorous. A tale of complicated relationships set in Brooklyn this proves as light-hearted as her father,... Format: Paperback - Released: 18/05/2017
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The Forever House Veronica Henry Gorgeously affectionate, loving, and generous, this is a read to escape into and really enjoy. Hunters Moon is a forever home, yet the current occupants are selling up and when Belinda takes on the sale, she finds herself becoming emotionally... Format: Paperback - Released: 18/05/2017
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