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Johnny’s Girl

Johnny’s Girl
  • Author(s): Paige Toon
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Meg’s life has taken a turn for the perfect. She is the envy of millions with her drop dead gorgeous husband, their two beautiful sons and her new mansion in Henley. Her celebrity PA days are over. But desperate...

Journey to the End of the Whale

Journey to the End of the Whale
  • Author(s): John David Morley
  • Location(s): Indonesia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

A wonderful hypnotic novel about a man obsessed by the sea and with Indonesian myths about the creatures of the deep

Journey to the Heartland

Journey to the Heartland
  • Author(s): Michelle Walsh Jackson
  • Location(s): Oklahoma
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Bestselling Irish author Michelle Jackson returns with a new name, Michelle Walsh Jackson and a fresh voice. After travel writing for the last eight years she has written a road trip book set in Oklahoma, Dublin and Oxford. This...

Jubilee

Jubilee
  • Author(s): Shelley Harris
  • Location(s): Buckinghamshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1977

Published in the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee year, Shelley Harris’s remarkably assured debut novel is rooted in the Silver Jubilee celebrations of June 1977. Cherry Gardens, in a small Buckinghamshire village, is throwing a street party. Union Jack bunting is...

Juliet’s Journey

Juliet’s Journey
  • Author(s): Kathy Gates
  • Location(s): Baiardo
  • Genre(s): Novella, Romance

Juliet Carlsen is taking some much needed time out in the tiny northern Italian village of Baiardo, home to an arts school. Sunshine, serenity and general sense of ‘dolce vita’ weave their magic. The attentions of a local architect...

July’s People

July’s People
  • Author(s): Nadine Gordimer
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Fiction

For years, it has been what is called a ‘deteriorating situation’. Now all over South Africa the cities are battlegrounds. The members of the Smales family – liberal whites – are rescued from the terror by their servant, July,...

Jump Derry

Jump Derry
  • Author(s): Christine Donovan
  • Location(s): Derry (Londonderry)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 2000s

Easter 2005, and Irish dancing champion Janie can win the feis but has no idea how to have a boyfriend. And when her first one, Martin, is a parkour freerunner, she can’t keep up as he jumps and flips...

Juno and Juliet

Juno and Juliet
  • Author(s): Julian Gough
  • Location(s): Galway
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A perfect slice of page-turning, intelligent escapism – a romantic comedy with a positively Shakespearean comic ending. ‘Juno & Juliet’ has twin blonde sisters, eighteen, arriving at university in Galway from their Tipperary home (and going back home for...

Just Another Mountain

Just Another Mountain
  • Author(s): Sarah Jane Douglas
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands, Nepal, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2000s/2010s

‘This uplifting memoir is testament that in life there are times when there is nothing for it but to scale that mountain’ – The Herald Best Summer Reads 2019 In 1997, at the age of 24, Sarah lost her...

Just for the Holidays

Just for the Holidays
  • Author(s): Sue Moorcroft
  • Location(s): Alsace
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The #1 bestselling author returns for summer! Grab your sun hat, a cool glass of wine, and the only book you need on holiday… In theory, nothing could be better than a summer spent basking in the French sun....

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