Cold Justice by Leigh Russell<\/strong><\/p>\nThe stakes have never been higher for Geraldine Steel.<\/strong><\/p>\nWhen Alice Lewis is found murdered, the case becomes personal for DI Steel, as Alice was the niece of her childminder, Lisa. Despite Lisa\u2019s earlier pleas for help, Geraldine hadn\u2019t acted in time to save Alice.<\/p>\n
Now, driven by guilt and a thirst for justice, Geraldine dives headfirst into the case. But the deeper she digs, the more layers of secrets and lies she uncovers about Alice\u2019s life, forcing her to question everything she thought she knew. With an elusive killer watching her every move, Geraldine finds herself caught in a dangerous game of cat and mouse.<\/p>\n
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They Had it Coming by Nikki Smith<\/strong><\/p>\nKeep your friends close and your enemies closer . . .<\/em><\/p>\nNate and Layla, Jude and Sophie. They\u2019ve been a four for as long as they can remember: fancy dinners, dancing \u2019til dawn . . . Even living and working together.<\/p>\n
So when Nate and Layla suddenly quit their lives and move to Bali, with its white sands and exotic beach clubs, Jude and Sophie are their first visitors. Anything to escape their life in London.<\/p>\n
But as the two couples reunite, cracks begin to show.<\/p>\n
Which is hardly surprising; they\u2019ve been lying to each other for years.<\/p>\n
And now, it\u2019s time for revenge.<\/p>\n
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Nightshade by Michael Connelly<\/strong><\/p>\nLos Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Detective Stilwell has been \u201cexiled\u201d to a low-key post policing rustic Catalina Island, after department politics drove him off a homicide desk on the mainland.<\/p>\n
But while following up the usual drunk-and-disorderlies and petty thefts that come with his new territory, Detective Stilwell gets a report of a body found wrapped in plastic and weighed down at the bottom of the harbor. Crossing all lines of protocol and jurisdiction, he starts doggedly working the case.<\/p>\n
Soon, his investigation uncovers closely guarded secrets and a dark heart to the serene island that was meant to be his escape from the evils of the big city.<\/p>\n
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The Doorman by Chris Pavone<\/strong><\/p>\nChicky Diaz is everyone\u2019s favourite doorman at the Bohemia, New York City\u2019s world-famous home of celebrities, financiers, and the cultural elite.<\/strong>But the rising tensions aren\u2019t what most concern Chicky. He knows that there\u2019s more going on within the rooms of the Bohemia than anyone\u2019s aware of. In fact, ahead of tonight\u2019s shift, he bought a gun even before he knew of the rising pandemonium.<\/p>\n
Tonight, enemies will clash, loyalties will be tested, secrets will be revealed \u2013 and lives will be lost.<\/p>\n
New York City is a tinderbox \u2013 just one more spark and it will go up in flames\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
When Death Calls by JM Dalgliesh<\/strong><\/p>\nBlood is thicker than water\u2026 and runs just as freely\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\nWhen the body of a man is discovered face down one morning in the swimming pool of his upmarket family home, the team wonder if it is the result of a tragic accident or serious foul play.<\/p>\n
DI Tom Janssen is currently suspended pending the outcome of the events at the close of his previous case. Using the time away from the office to consider his future, and how this will impact on his family life, Tom is invited to attend a school reunion which he reluctantly agrees to. Coming face to face with people he hasn\u2019t seen in years leads to more than a reunion of old friendships. Some people find it hard to let go of the past while others foster long-held grudges. It isn\u2019t long before Tom finds old feuds rekindled and scores that aim to be settled\u2026 one way or another.<\/p>\n
Finding himself at the centre of a murder inquiry \u2013 only this time as a witness rather than an investigator \u2013 can he steer clear of the case or will temptation, and a search for the truth, be too much for him to ignore.<\/p>\n
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The Perfect Psychopath by Alice Hunter<\/strong><\/p>\nThe mind is a dangerous place to hide\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\nDr Eleanor Spencer is a well-respected psychologist with a seemingly perfect life. But when a series of women start to vanish, it dredges up memories of her sister\u2019s unsolved disappearance and she finds herself drawn into the investigation.<\/p>\n
Desperate, she turns to Lucas Hayne, a convicted serial murderer who revels in mind games. But when Lucas cryptically hints the answers lie buried in her past, Ellie\u2019s carefully constructed world begins to splinter.<\/p>\n
Because now she faces a terrifying possibility: the real monster might just be closer than she ever imagined.<\/p>\n
Ellie has spent her career deciphering the minds of killers\u2014but now, one of them is inside hers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
Murder in Oxford by Christina Koning<\/strong><\/p>\n1942. When Frederick Rowlands arrives in the city in answer to an urgent summons, he finds that the effects of war have not bypassed Oxford, which feels more like a military camp than a university town. His old friend and fellow war veteran, Major Ian Fraser, has been told that there is a spy at large in the university and at nearby Blenheim Palace, the heart of British Intelligence. Rowlands swiftly becomes embroiled in matters involving MI5 and enemy agents, but not before a vicious killer strikes.<\/p>\n
Now the race is on to find the murderer before he \u2013 or she \u2013 can kill again, and to prevent vital plans for a covert British mission being compromised. For Rowlands, the stakes could not be higher, as a deadly game of cat and mouse plays out .<\/p>\n
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Last Orders by Denzil Meyrick<\/strong><\/p>\nDCI Jim Daley is charged with murder \u2013 and everyone saw him do it \u2013 in the gripping final thriller in the series, from the bestselling author Denzil Meyrick.<\/strong><\/p>\nIn the middle of the night in Kinloch, the phone rings\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\nDetective Sergeant Brian Scott answers. It\u2019s a message from his old friend and partner, DCI Jim Daley, which chills him to the bone:<\/p>\n
\u2018She\u2019s dead, Brian. I couldn\u2019t take it anymore \u2013 I killed her! You have to help.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\nDaley has been arrested for murder, and everyone saw him do it. The police have all the evidence they need to put him behind bars for life, but Scott still believes he\u2019s innocent.<\/p>\n
Is someone trying to frame him?<\/strong><\/p>\nThe search for answers takes Daley and Scott on a dark journey into their past, putting the people closest to them in immediate danger. And as the heartbreak takes its toll, Scott begins to wonder if this might be the end of the road.<\/p>\n
Is it time to call last orders?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
A Lethal Cocktail by Ciar Byrne<\/strong><\/p>\n\ud83d\udc8d<\/strong>\u00a0Three ex-husbands. Two ex-wives.<\/strong>\u26b0\ufe0f\u00a0One shocking murder.<\/strong>\ud83c\udf78\u00a0A wedding that\u2019s the talk of the town\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\nTudor Close Hotel, Rottingdean, is the most glamorous venue of the season. And not somewhere Virginia or her sister Vanessa would usually choose to frequent. They\u2019re far happier at home with their writing or painting, than brushing shoulders with debutantes or starlets.<\/p>\n
But Lady Ottoline has had a difficult year, so \u2013 despite her rather outlandish tastes \u2013 they let her choose the meeting spot. And when the group bumps into fashion designer Mimi Mason in the hotel bar, they begrudgingly accept an invite to her wedding breakfast the next morning.<\/p>\n
No one imagined that, a few cocktails later, Mimi would be dead.<\/p>\n
As the sisters are drawn into a new case, it becomes clear that someone meticulously planned this murder. Beneath the glittering exterior, there was a dark side to this beautiful bride \u2013 and every wedding guest had a reason to sabotage this happy union.<\/p>\n
But which one of them decided it was time to give Mimi a taste of her own poison?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
Dead Water by Simon Toyne<\/strong><\/p>\nA brutal murder<\/strong><\/p>\nWhen a headless corpse washes up on the bank of the Thames, DCI Tannahill Khan knows this wasn\u2019t accidental \u2013 the killer wanted the body found. This is just the beginning.<\/p>\n
A deadly warning<\/strong><\/p>\nThe post mortem reveals a shocking discovery. Written on the dead man\u2019s arm is Forensic Criminologist Dr Laughton Rees\u2019 home address.<\/p>\n
A fatal game<\/strong><\/p>\nWith her life in danger and more bodies washing up along the river, Laughton and Tannahill are in a race against time to stop the killer before Laughton\u2019s own name reaches the top of his list<\/p>\n
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The House Sitter by Keri Beevis<\/strong><\/p>\nShe knows what she saw. But can she prove it?<\/strong><\/p>\nAfter my relationship breaks down, I agree to house-sit my brother Dexter\u2019s posh apartment whilst he\u2019s out of the country. It will give me some much needed headspace.<\/p>\n
Sitting on the balcony one sweltering summer\u2019s evening in the midst of a power cut, I\u2019m given a secret window into the lives of the residents in the opposite building, and I see more than I should.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m drawn to a man in the penthouse and watch him closely and when a striking woman joins him on the balcony, I can\u2019t tear my eyes away.<\/p>\n
The following weekend a woman matching her exact description is reported missing. She\u2019s not been seen since that fateful night.
I know what I saw and I can\u2019t let it go.
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Bella Donna by Jill Johnson<\/strong><\/p>\nSECRETS ARE THE DEADLIEST POISON<\/strong><\/p>\nEustacia Rose is done with murder cases.<\/strong>\u00a0She\u2019s ready to settle down with her partner, Matilde, and focus on her work at the university. To live a normal life.<\/p>\nBut then along comes\u00a0a case she can\u2019t resist investigating<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 because this time, the murder victim was poisoned with hemlock, one of the plants stolen from Eustacia\u2019s\u00a0illicit garden of poisonous plants<\/strong>. And Eustacia is not the only one desperate to retrieve her lost treasure: the beguiling trader of rare plants, Zsa Zsa, and rival university professor Hutchins are on the trail, too, not to mention the dangerous criminal gang determined to keep hold of the lethal plants.<\/p>\nThe stakes are higher than ever for Eustacia. Because if she cannot save her plants in time, there will be more deaths \u2013 and this time, the blood will be on her hands . . .<\/p>\n
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This House of Burning Bones by Stuart MacBride<\/strong><\/p>\nThe Granite City is ready to burn, and all it takes is a single spark . . .<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nIn the heat of a blistering summer, Aberdeen\u2019s police are struggling: half the force is off sick, leave has been cancelled, someone\u2019s firebombed a hotel full of migrants, and there\u2019s a massive protest march happening this Saturday.<\/p>\n
With officers dropping like flies, Detective Inspector Logan McRae is forced to juggle cases and run a major murder investigation with a skeleton staff of misfits, idiots and malingerers until the top brass can arrange back-up from other divisions.<\/p>\n
It doesn\u2019t help that the\u00a0Aberdeen Examiner<\/em>\u00a0has just been bought by Natasha Agapova, a tabloid media tycoon hell-bent on blaming local police for everything. And she\u2019s\u00a0more<\/em>\u00a0than happy to fan the flames.<\/p>\nBut, as bad as everything seems, it\u2019s all about to get much,\u00a0much<\/em>\u00a0worse . . .<\/p>\n\n
The Palazzo by Kayte Nunn<\/strong><\/p>\nThey\u2019re all killers, but only one will resort to murder. The stunning new novel from international bestseller Kayte Nunn, for all fans of Lucy Foley and White Lotus.<\/strong><\/p>\nSuccessful beauty entrepreneur Vivi Savidge is about to celebrate her fortieth birthday at the Palazzo Stellina, a historic former convent in the foothills of the Italian Alps.<\/p>\n
Vivi\u2019s little sister is flying in from Brisbane with her sixteen-year-old twins in tow. Her ex-colleague and his new husband are coming from Boston, and old university friend Caroline is driving from Turin. Every one of them is hiding a shameful secret.<\/p>\n
Amid a suffocating heatwave, the holiday ignites an explosive cocktail of obsession, jealousy, and greed. Before the week is over, secrets will be exposed and the gathering will turn deadly, leaving one victim, a handful of suspects, and a murderer in their midst.<\/p>\n
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The Chemist by AA Dhand<\/strong><\/p>\nLocal pharmacist and pillar of the community, Idris Khan, spends his days doling out methadone to the hundreds of addicts in his care. They trust Idris with their secrets, and so he knows more than his mild manner suggests. So when his childhood sweetheart, Rebecca, doesn\u2019t turn up for her daily methadone dose, Idris is worried. Worried enough to go looking for her in the most deprived area of Leeds, alone.<\/p>\n
The mess Idris finds catapults him into the middle of a turf war between the two most powerful drug cartels in Yorkshire. Now, he must use every bit of intelligence and cunning he has to keep those he loves safe.<\/p>\n
Because a war is on the way. And when Idris goes after his enemies, they won\u2019t see him coming.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
Please Don\u2019t Find Me by Wendy Dranfield<\/strong><\/p>\nMy heart is hammering furiously as the bedroom door creaks open. The second I see my husband\u2019s lifeless body, I know I have to run. And no-one can\u00a0<\/strong>ever\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>find us.<\/strong><\/p>\nThere are three things I know to be true.<\/p>\n
ONE.<\/strong>\u00a0My husband knew my secret.<\/p>\nTWO.<\/strong>\u00a0Now he\u2019s dead, my daughter and I are in danger.<\/p>\nTHREE.<\/strong>\u00a0I will do anything to protect my child, whatever the cost.<\/p>\nWe need to vanish.\u00a0But first, it has to look like we were taken.<\/strong><\/p>\nI move through our house, pushing over chairs and rummaging violently through drawers. I pull out items\u00a0Robert\u00a0<\/strong>and I bought together and throw them across the room. As a final touch, I leave\u00a0Avery<\/strong>\u2019s sneaker abandoned on the ground outside.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s important there\u2019s no trace. But if I could leave a message behind, it would be this:<\/p>\n
If you look for me, you won\u2019t like what you find.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
The Wood by Rachel McLean & Joel Hames<\/strong><\/p>\nDI Zoe Finch has been in Cumbria long enough to know who\u2019s pulling the strings in organised crime, and who\u2019s helping them from within the police.<\/p>\n
But just as she\u2019s closing in on the evidence to prove it, she finds herself scrambling in the fallout from the murder of a key witness, and struggling to keep the case out of the hands of the very man she suspects of orchestrating it.<\/p>\n
Can the women rescued from a human trafficking ring help Zoe wrest back control of the investigation? And does a seemingly unrelated murder on the other side of the Lake District hold the key to bringing her enemies to justice?<\/p>\n
With the team thrust into unfamiliar roles and the whole station under investigation, the stakes have never been higher. Can Zoe and her team hold it together under mounting pressure?<\/p>\n
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Murder at the English Manor by Helena Dixon<\/strong><\/p>\nA glamorous engagement celebration in an English country manor house\u2026 and a local maid dead. Somebody call Kitty Underhay!<\/strong><\/p>\nAt home in Devon,\u00a0Kitty<\/strong>\u00a0is attending a ball at the very grand Markham Hall. With celebrations in full swing and everyone kitted out in their glad rags, Kitty and Matt enjoy the champagne. But the next morning, the party feels well and truly over when Kitty stumbles across a body while out walking her dog, Bertie. The maid,\u00a0Agnes<\/strong>, is dead, and everyone at Markham Hall is a suspect\u2026<\/p>\nKitty and Matt set about piecing together the puzzle as the streamers are swept away and empty glasses gathered up. But who could the murderer be? The other maids seem shifty;\u00a0Lord and Lady Faversham<\/strong>, the hosts, are not without motive, and even Kitty\u2019s grandmother is keeping her cards close to her chest this time\u2026<\/p>\nBut then a safe filled with precious jewels has its lock broken, and another body is found tangled up in the weeds of the lake in the grounds. Kitty wonders if the poor guest knew their dancing days were almost over when they were merrily sipping punch the night before? And what secrets are the other guests hiding\u2026<\/p>\n
Can Kitty save the next victim at the eleventh hour? Or will this really be a weekend to die for?<\/strong><\/p>\nBack to Index<\/a><\/p>\nGeneral\/Contemporary Fiction<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n
Sleep by Honor Jones<\/strong><\/p>\nHow much of our lives are ours alone?<\/em><\/p>\nTen-year-old Margaret hides beneath a blackberry bush in her family\u2019s lush backyard while her brother hunts for her in a game of tag. Hers is a childhood of sunlit swimming pools and Saturday morning pancakes but her family life requires careful prudence. Then one fateful summer, everything changes. A line is crossed and the simple pleasures of girlhood slip away.<\/p>\n
Twenty-five years later, Margaret hides under her parents\u2019 bed, waiting for her young daughters to find her. She\u2019s newly divorced and navigating life as a co-parent, while discovering the pleasures of a new boyfriend. But some part of her is still under the blackberry bush from all those summers ago, punched out of time. She must now reckon with the echoes between the past and the present, what it means to keep a child truly safe, and the family she carries inside herself as she builds a family of her own.<\/p>\n
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The Midnight Bookshop by Amanda James<\/strong><\/p>\nLong ago, a bookshop was born \u2013 the beating heart of all those who find hope within the pages of a book. With the words penned upon the echo of old forests, new worlds are created.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nIt\u2019s ready and waiting to welcome all those who know where to find it\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nStrangers Jo, Adelaide and Kye are the least likely people to find themselves across the threshold of a bookshop.<\/p>\n
But as their midnight book club shows them that a single book can change everything, all three realise that their own stories\u00a0can<\/em>\u00a0be rewritten.<\/p>\n\n
Songs of Summer by Jane L Rosen<\/strong><\/p>\nA young woman crashes the wedding of the summer on Fire Island in search of her birth mother\u2014and gets a whole lot more than she bargained for\u2014in this warm, heart-stopping getaway from Jane L. Rosen<\/strong><\/p>\nMaggie May Wheeler is living her best life\u2014at thirty, she has big plans for her vintage record shop and is about to be engaged to her childhood best friend. But when she stumbles across a letter she wrote to her future self when she was thirteen, she realizes it may not be enough. The letter ignites a desire to find her birth mother and discover where she really belongs.<\/p>\n
Her search takes her to dreamy Fire Island, where her birth mother is a guest at a wedding. As Maggie spies on her biological family, she\u2019s caught between diving into their chaotic lives and returning to her comfortable world. Things heat up when a charming local makes her an offer to crash the wedding as his date.<\/p>\n
Is it the island\u2019s magic, the whirlwind of the weekend, or the thrill of a fake beau that has her rethinking everything? Swept away by every love song she hears, Maggie must figure out where her heart truly lies.<\/p>\n
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Muckle Flugga by Michael Pedersen<\/strong><\/p>\nLife on a remote island is turned upside down by a stranger\u2019s arrival, testing bonds of family and tradition and leaving a young dreamer\u2019s future hanging in the balance.<\/strong><\/p>\nIt\u2019s no ordinary existence on the rugged isle of Muckle Flugga. The elements run riot and the very rocks that shape the place begin to shift under their influence. The only human inhabitants are the lighthouse keeper, known as The Father, and his otherworldly son, Ouse. Them, and the occasional lodger to keep the wolf from the door.<\/p>\n
When one of those lodgers \u2013 Firth, a chaotic writer \u2013 arrives from Edinburgh, the limits of the world the keeper and his son cling to begin to crumble. A tug of war ensues between Firth and the lighthouse keeper for Ouse\u2019s affections \u2013 and his future. As old and new ways collide, and life-changing decisions loom, what will the tides leave standing in their wake?<\/p>\n
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By Your Side by Ruth Jones<\/strong><\/p>\nBecause second chances come when you least expect them . . .<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nLinda Standish has been a friend to the friendless for the past thirty-three years, in her role at the council\u2019s Unclaimed Heirs Unit. And now she\u2019s looking forward to the joys of an early retirement.<\/p>\n
But before she hangs up her lanyard, Linda takes on one last case \u2013 that of Levi Norman \u2013 a Welshman who made his home on a remote Scottish island for the five years before he died. Linda must visit Storrich to track down Levi\u2019s remaining relatives . . .<\/p>\n
What brought Levi here? And who did he leave behind? Obliged to travel (by hearse!) with her arch nemesis, and helped (and hindered\u2026) by the local residents, Linda searches for clues to a life now lost. And in the process unexpectedly makes new friends, and discovers things about herself she never knew.<\/p>\n
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Vianne by Joanne Harris<\/strong><\/p>\nSecrets.<\/strong>Chocolate.<\/strong>A touch of magic\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\nOn a warm July evening, Sylviane Rochas scatters her mother\u2019s ashes in New York and lets the changing wind blow her to the French seaside town of Marseille.<\/p>\n
For the first time in her life, Vianne holds the future in her own hands. Charming her way into a job as a waitress in a local\u00a0bistrot<\/em>, she knows that she is not here to stay \u2013 when her child is born in a few months, she must be gone.<\/p>\nAs she discovers the joy of cooking, making recipes her own with the addition of bittersweet chocolate spices, she realises that it possesses its own magic in this town full of secrets.<\/p>\n
Yet Vianne will never forget her mother\u2019s warning: that there is danger in revealing the true desires of those around her \u2013 and she must flee these cobbled streets before it\u2019s too late\u2026<\/p>\n
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Poor Ghost! by Gabriel Flynn<\/strong><\/p>\nWhen Luca drops out of his prestigious PhD programme and moves back home to Manchester, he thinks he\u2019ll take some time to consider his life choices: the failed love affair that ended in a disastrous holiday and embarrassing exit, the pursuit of an academic life that gave him nothing but a strong sense of failure.<\/p>\n
In need of money, and still convinced the literary life might be for him, Luca takes on a job as a ghost writer: Andy, who has progressive MS, wants Luca to write his life story. Luca\u2019s own father had MS and eventually took his own life \u2013 making the assignment a full immersion in the dark parts of his childhood Luca has never really dealt with. Luca has his own ideas about what Andy\u2019s book should be like \u2013 but he\u2019ll have to learn how to curb his dreaming, if he ever wants to get paid.<\/p>\n
While his love of literature and intellectual ambition might have got him so far away from his childhood in Manchester, Luca is grappling with what it means to try to go home again \u2013 how far where you\u2019re from shapes you, and how difficult your parent\u2019s past is to shake off.<\/p>\n
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Happy is the One by Katie Allen<\/strong><\/p>\nWhat if halfway through your life was just the beginning?<\/strong><\/p>\nRobin Edmund Blake is halfway through his life.<\/p>\n
Born in 1986, when Halley\u2019s Comet crossed the sky, he is destined to go out with it, when it returns in 2061. Until that day, he can\u2019t die. He has proof.<\/p>\n
With his future mapped out in minute detail, a lucrative but increasingly dull job in the City of London, and Gemma to share his life with, Robin has a plan to be remembered forever.<\/p>\n
But when Robin\u2019s sick father has one accident too many, the plan starts to unravel. Robin must return home to the tiny seaside town of Eastgate, learn to care for the man who never really cared for him, and face the childhood ghosts he fled decades ago.<\/p>\n
Desperate to get his life back on schedule, he connects with fellow outsider Astrid. Brutally direct, sharp-witted and a professor at a nearby university, she\u2019s unlike anyone he\u2019s ever met. But Astrid is hiding something and someone from Robin.<\/p>\n
And he\u2019s hiding even more from her\u2026<\/p>\n
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Ripeness by Sarah Moss<\/strong><\/p>\nOn the brink of adulthood and just out of school, Edith finds herself travelling to rural Italy. She has been sent by her mother with strict instructions: to see her sister, ballet dancer Lydia, through the final weeks of her pregnancy, help at the birth and then make a phone call which will change all of their lives.<\/p>\n
Decades later, happily divorced and newly energized, Edith is living in contentment and comfort in Ireland. When her best friend M\u00e9abh receives a call from an American man claiming to be her brother, M\u00e9abh must decide if she will meet him, and Edith finds herself plunged back into her own past and the story of the baby she once knew and loved.<\/p>\n
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The Santorini Writing Retreat by Eva Glynn<\/strong><\/p>\nThree women, one writing retreat, endless possibilities\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\nBestselling author Jessica Rose needs to escape from a terrible secret that\u2019s robbed her of her creativity. Could leading a retreat on a gorgeous Greek island be just what she needs?<\/p>\n
Coming home to Santorini was never in Zina\u2019s plans, but now she\u2019s determined to make her new business a success.<\/p>\n
And then there\u2019s Karmela, who just wants to write her book and make her mother proud.<\/p>\n
In the heat of their Greek island paradise, these new friends find the courage to shape their own stories, and write endings they can all be proud of\u2026<\/p>\n
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The Woman Who Met Herself by Laura Pearson<\/strong><\/p>\nWhat would you do, if you met your double?<\/strong><\/p>\nDebbie Jones thinks life is an adventure. Even having lost her husband a year ago, she\u2019s ready for whatever the world might throw her way. Being in her sixties doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s all over for her yet, and she loves her new job doing neighbourhood support for a charity.\u00a0Then she knocks on a stranger\u2019s front door.<\/strong><\/p>\nRuth Waverley doesn\u2019t like surprises. Her life isn\u2019t perhaps all she once dreamed off, but what other options are there for a woman in her sixties? She\u2019s proud of her home and children. And she likes her life well enough.\u00a0Then she hears someone knocking at the door.<\/strong><\/p>\n
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