Relationship Stories
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Featured Books
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A Time of Love and Tartan Alexander McCall Smith August 2017 Book of the Month With customary charm and deftness, Alexander McCall Smith gives us another instalment in this popular series, now running in its twelfth season in the Scotsman, making it the longest running serial novel ever. What... Format: Hardback - Released: 03/08/2017 
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Don't Close Your Eyes Holly Seddon A convincing, powerful, and dramatic psychological thriller. Twins Robin and Sarah are living separate lives, each face their own difficulties, yet danger beckons and life is about to get a lot more complicated. The story spins from Robin to Sarah,... Format: Hardback - Released: 06/07/2017
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The Postcard Fern Britton Penny is a TV producer who, when filming in Cornwall, met and fell in love with the local vicar. Now, five years and a small child later, life is not treating her well. Coupled with her present hopelessness is her... Format: Paperback - Released: 29/06/2017
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Say My Name Allegra Huston August 2017 Debut of the Month As it dances across thoughts and emotions, ‘Say My Name’ proves to be a beautiful, thoughtful, and seductive read. Eve is 48, her life is stagnant until she finds a broken violin and meets... Format: Hardback - Released: 27/07/2017
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Cartes Postales from Greece Victoria Hislop Three years ago Cardiff born Ellie moved into a small block of twelve flats in Kensal Rise, London. Her life is dull. She does tele-ad sales for a trade mag and then suddenly she gets postcards from Greece addressed to... Format: Paperback - Released: 10/08/2017
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True Love at the Lonely Hearts Bookshop Annie Darling It's a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman in possession of a good job, four bossy sisters and a needy cat must also have want of her one true love. Or is it? Another delightful novel from the author... Format: Paperback - Released: 10/08/2017
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You Said Forever Susan Lewis A gripping, emotional and tension-filled family drama. Charlotte and Anthony live and work on an artisan vineyard in New Zealand with their three children. They may be in paradise, yet the actions of eight year old Chloe begin to seriously... Format: Paperback - Released: 10/08/2017
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The People at Number 9 Felicity Everett Solid, surburban couple with two boys at the local school have their safe, perhaps a little monotonous, life disrupted by the arrival of an artistic golden couple next door. All glitter and shine, oozing charisma and chasing fun, they dazzle... Format: Paperback - Released: 24/08/2017
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Trains & Lovers The Heart's Journey Alexander McCall Smith A heart-warming stand-alone novel about a group of passengers on an Edinburgh to London train. They have one thing in common - they have all been in love. Poignant stories full of warmth, romance and charm. A 'Piece of Passion'... Format: Paperback - Released: 17/08/2017
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Close Enough to Touch Colleen Oakley This truly uplifting, life-affirming treat is at once a whimsical love story, and a funny, thought-provoking meditation on the nature of closeness.Jubilee Jenkins suffers from an excruciating condition. She's allergic to the touch of other humans and has... Format: Paperback - Released: 06/07/2017
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The Music Shop Rachel Joyce A heartrending love story. An ode to vinyl. A poignant evocation of a community of shopkeepers in the late eighties. Like the music beloved by its protagonist, this pitch-perfect novel has an ineffable power to uplift the soul. At the... Format: Hardback - Released: 13/07/2017
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Best Laid Plans Kathy Lette July 2017 Book of the Month. Gosh, what a funny, emotional, romp of a story this is. Lucy begins her tale with the moment she gets arrested for picking up an undercover... Format: Hardback - Released: 13/07/2017
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Greatest Hits Laura Barnett A powerfully lyrical day-in-the-life portrait of a successful singer-songwriter reflecting on the ebbs and flows of her life as she prepares her Greatest Hits release after long absence from the industry. Cass Wheeler has been a massive music star since... Format: Hardback - Released: 15/06/2017
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An Almond for a Parrot Wray Delaney A fascinating erotica debut for famed children's book author Sally Gardner and, most definitely, a change in register as a tale of 18th century debauchery unfolds in the tradition of FANNY HILL and other historical jolly naughtiness. Tully Truegood is... Format: Paperback - Released: 27/07/2017
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The Little Teashop of Lost and Found Trisha Ashley Oh what a glorious treat of a book this is, warm and enticing, with captivating dark and spicy notes. Alice has experienced loss and rejection during her life, baking soothes her soul, and just when she experiences her most heartbreaking... Format: Paperback - Released: 29/06/2017
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The Invitation Lucy Foley A sophisticated, expressive, and emotional story set in the glamorous Italian film promotion world of the 1950’s. Hal and Stella meet at a party, an immediate connection flares into life, yet the spectre of war holds both in a devastating... Format: Paperback - Released: 15/06/2017
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The Lost Girl Carol Drinkwater July 2017 eBook of the Month. A mesmerising, haunting, and extraordinarily relevant yet beautifully evocative read. Kurtiz arrives in Paris after a sighting of her missing daughter, as the tale begins to unfurl, humanity at its... Format: Hardback - Released: 29/06/2017
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The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 Years Old Hendrik Groen Poignant, moving and funny, I chuckled my way through this delightful (but no longer secret) diary from the rather lovable Hendrik Groen. Hendrik has reached the age where his address book is depressingly empty and his life has become an... Format: Paperback - Released: 13/07/2017
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Maeve BinchyKate SaundersAnne TylerFannie FlaggPenny VincenziSara MacdonaldJoanna TrollopeTony ParsonsAnna MaxtedKathy LetteMaria BeaumontLily PriorSue TownsendJennifer CrusieJosephine HartJulie MyersonRebecca Shaw
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