Blogs in December 2022

Coming Home to Holly Close Farm 13th December 2022

Julie Houston’s novels are heart-warming, full of joy and completely addictive. Charlie Maddison loves being an architect in London, but when she finds out her boyfriend, Dominic, is actually married, she runs back to the beautiful countryside of Westenbury...

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The Village Vicar 13th December 2022

Three devoted sisters… One complicated family. When Rosa Quinn left her childhood home in Westenbury, she never expected to return over a decade later as the village vicar. But after a health scare and catching her boyfriend cheating, Rosa...

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London is Dead 12th December 2022

‘Tough, urban prose from an author with a sharp, distinctive style and an ear for the language of London’s naughtier characters. Keenaghan’s love for his city shines through in this driven, thumping novel. Cult fiction for the 2020s.’ –...

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Out of Ireland: A Novel 12th December 2022

In the late 1860s in Bantry, Ireland, sixteen-year-old Eileen O’Donovan is forced by her family to marry an older widower whom she barely knows and does not love. Her brother Michael, at age nineteen, becomes involved with the outlawed...

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Blackout 9th December 2022

Berlin, December 1939 As Germany goes to war, the Nazis tighten their terrifying grip. Paranoia in the capital is intensified by a rigidly enforced blackout that plunges the city into oppressive darkness every night, as the bleak winter sun...

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