Blogs in November 2024

All I Want for Christmas 1st November 2024

Three first dates and an art-world mystery – it’s going to be a busy Christmas for Darcy. All I Want for Christmas is the Sunday Times bestselling cosy winter romance from Karen Swan, author of Christmas By Candlelight. Can...

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Sweet Vidalia 31st October 2024

For readers of Elizabeth Strout and Anne Tyler, a life-affirming novel about marriage, friendship and the powerful dignity of a woman forced to rebuild her life – unexpectedly and alone – in 1960s Texas. She made herself see Robert...

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Havoc 31st October 2024

Eighty-one-year-old Maggie Burkhardt has left it all behind. After the death of her husband and the tragic loss of her daughter Julia, she fled her native Wisconsin and has spent the last five years ping-ponging between the world’s luxury...

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The Rivals 31st October 2024

Claudia Lin–mystery novel superfan and, until recently, clichéd underemployed English major–has scored her dream job: co-running Veracity, a dating detective agency for chronically online New Yorkers who want to know if their prospective partners are telling the truth. Unfortunately,...

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A History of the Big House: A Novel 31st October 2024

At the end of the 19th century, a man is forced to flee his village after a quarrel. Starting over with nothing, the banished, audacious Wakim Nassar will create orange plantations on the outskirts of Beirut and become the...

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