Blogs in June 2023

I’d Rather Burn Than Bloom 17th June 2023

Packed with voice, this is a powerful coming-of-age YA novel about a Filipina-American teen who tries to figure out who she really is in the wake of her mother’s death. Some girls call their mother their best friend. Marisol?...

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Canary Girls 17th June 2023

Rosie the Riveter meets A League of Their Own in New York Times bestselling novelist Jennifer Chiaverini’s lively and illuminating novel about the “munitionettes” who built bombs in Britain’s arsenals during World War I, risking their lives for the war...

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The Little French Village of Book Lovers 17th June 2023

‘Everyone knows me, but none can see me. I’m that thing you call love’ In a small town in balmy Provence, a dazzling encounter with Love itself changes the life of orphan Marie-Jeanne forever. As a girl, Marie-Jeanne realizes...

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No One Prayed Over Their Graves 17th June 2023

December, 1907: one morning after a night of drunken carousing in the city, Hanna and his friend Zakariya return home to their village near Aleppo-only to discover a scene of tragedy. A devastating flood has levelled their homes, shops...

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The Black Eden 17th June 2023

1956, the Scottish Highlands: Aaron and Robbie, a schoolmaster’s son and a farmer’s boy, are fast friends with a shared passion for diving, but very divergent ideas of what they will do with their lives. Meanwhile, Mark and Ally,...

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