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The Truth About You

The Truth About You
  • Author(s): Susan Lewis
  • Location(s): London, Umbria
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Lainey Hollingsworth is the anchor in her home. In addition to managing her husband’s writing career, she oversees the daily operations of a chaotic family: a rebellious teenage daughter, a stepson who blames her for ruining his life, and...

The Underdogs

The Underdogs
  • Author(s): Sara Hammel
  • Location(s): Massachusetts
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Who killed Annabel Harper? When a popular teen beauty s body is discovered by the pool at an elite tennis club, the regulars are shocked especially twelve-year-old Evie and her best friend, Chelsea. While everyone else is haunted by...

The Unlikely Pilgramage of Harold Fry

The Unlikely Pilgramage of Harold Fry
  • Author(s): Rachel Joyce
  • Location(s): Northumberland, Devon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Retired couple, Harold and Maureen, are living in Devon, when something happens that will change their future. Aletter arrives for Harold from a former colleague of his at the brewery, Queenie Hennessy. He takes his reply to the postbox...

The Villa

The Villa
  • Author(s): Ruth Kelly
  • Location(s): Balearic Islands (Illes Balears)
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller, Destination Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Villa in Paradise It’s destined to be the ultimate reality show: Ten contestants. A luxurious villa on a stunning private island. Every moment streamed live to a global audience who have unprecedented control over those competing for the...

The Vintage Teacup Club

The Vintage Teacup Club
  • Author(s): Vanessa Greene
  • Location(s): Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

At a car boot sale in Sussex, three very different women meet and fall for the same vintage teaset. They decide to share it – and form a friendship that changes their lives . . . Jenny can’t wait...

The Violets of March

The Violets of March
  • Author(s): Sarah Jio
  • Location(s): Bainbridge Island
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1940s, 2000s

This novel is a story within a story. Set in the present day Emily Wilson, divorceé leaves NYC to reside with her Aunt Bee on Bainbridge Island, in order to sort herself out and take stock. The second story...

The Waiting Rooms

The Waiting Rooms
  • Author(s): Eve Smith
  • Location(s): United Kingdom, South Africa
  • Genre(s): Dystopian, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1990s and contemporary

Decades of spiralling drug resistance have unleashed a global antibiotic crisis. Ordinary infections are untreatable, and a scratch from a pet can kill. A sacrifice is required to keep the majority safe: no one over seventy is allowed new...

The Way Things Look to Me

The Way Things Look to Me
  • Author(s): Roopa Farooki
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A London Summer and the book follows three damaged siblings, a brother and his two sisters,coping with the loss of their parents and with their little sister’s Asperger’s Syndrome. Many insights about this syndrome

The Wedding Party

The Wedding Party
  • Author(s): Rebecca Heath
  • Location(s): South Australia
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Three families united by a terrible event must survive a deadly wedding in this latest gripping thriller from Rebecca Heath, author ofThe Summer Partyand The Dinner Party! A group of old friends. A grieving mother. A lying bride. Adele...

The White Divers of Broome

The White Divers of Broome
  • Author(s): John Bailey
  • Location(s): Broome
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1900s

A look at the politics behind the pearl shell diving industy in the 1900s, largely forgotten. The Japanese were largely the divers and the Whites were essentially behind the industry. And vivid descriptions of how the Aborigines were forced...

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