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GIVEAWAY: 3 copies of Adelaide (set in LONDON and one of our top reads 2024)
3rd November 2024
Giveaway:3 copies of Adelaide by Genevieve Wheeler, a novel of relationships set in 2010s London. One of our top reads of 2024.
On an otherwise ordinary day, 26-year-old American expat Adelaide Williams walks into a London hospital and asks for help. Something’s not right. She doesn’t feel like herself any more.
For the past year, she’s been dating Rory Hughes, the charming man she met when she was least expecting to fall in love. Does he respond to texts? Honour his commitments? Make advance plans? Sometimes, rarely, and no, not at all. Despite everything, Adelaide is convinced he’s The One.
But when tragedy strikes unexpectedly, their relationship crumbles, and Adelaide realises she doesn’t want to live without him. Because how can you move on from a love that’s changed you forever?
An emotional, relatable debut from a fresh new voice that captures the timeless nature of what it’s like to be young and in love – with your friends, with your city, and with the one person who cannot, will not, love you back.
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We solve murders Richard Osman
The Women. by Kristin Hannah
We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
My top read so far in 2024 has been A Secret Cornish Wish by Ali McNamara. It was definitely strong on location, being set in a small village in Cornwall. It has made me really want to explore Cornwall on a future holiday!
I have rather enjoyed The Silent Child by J G Kelly
No One Saw a Thing by Andrea Mara. The location is London!
My favourite so far has been The Repeat Room – Jesse Ball
The Secret Keepers by Tilly Bagshaw. Great depiction of a number of different locations, particularly the French Riviera
Challenger by Adam Higginbotham
The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich
Stranger Than Fiction by Edwin Frank
Happy Place set in Amsterdam
I read Justine, the first of Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet. It is a love letter to Alexandria and had me YEARNING to visit, but also to go back in time to how it was.
Babel by R. F. Kuang
The Winner by C.J. Parsons, not very strong on location but is set in London.
The Loving Spirit, Daphne’s du Maurier’s first novel set in Cornwall
Happy Place set inAmerica
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Daughters of Warsaw by Maria Frances. An amazing piece of historical fiction set mainly in wartime Poland but also in present day USA. Based on the true story of the remarkable Irene Sandler (1910-2008) She along with her network of like minded people was responsible for rescuing over 2 500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghettos which the author describes so well. I can’t recommend it highly enough although it has haunted me ever since I finished it.
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
The Right Path by Nora Roberts took me to the Greek island it is set on
Hedda was my go to read in 2024
An old one I found in a charity shop: Ruby by Virginia Andrews. It’s set in the bayou and New Orleans in the 1960s.
Joe Country
PERSUADER By Lee Childs.
Not strong on Location
PERSUADER by Lee Child
The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins, set in a wonderful remote Scottish Island
Happy Place – set in different parts of America. It describes the places so vividly it’s easy to imagine being there
I’ve only just discovered the fantastic series of books by Caimh McDonnell, starting with ‘A Man With One of Those Faces’
The books are set mostly in Dublin.
The Salt Path – True story based around Cornwall
The Women by Kristin Hannah – a great description of wartime Vietnam.
Every Smile You Fake by Dorothy Koomson. Location is Brighton.
Shy creatures by Clare Chambers was wonderful
My favourite read was Lady for A Season by Melissa Addey. It’s based in regency times in the London area.
Ten Seconds by Robert Gold
Susan Fletcher’s Witch Light – has some wonderful desriptions of the Scottish landscape
My favourite is We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
Cat and Mouse by MJ Arlidge
My favourite read of the year was a re-read from years ago. Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber. Set in Victorian London, the vast differences for the lives of the rich and poor are woven together beautifully in this book.
My top read has been Falling by T.J Newman
Katie Flynn – The Winter Runaway set in Liverpool.
My top read of 2024 is Act Like It by Lucy Parker set in the London theatre district.
I’ve just started reading The Figurine by Victoria Hislop and I suspect, from, what I have read so far ,that this will be my favourite of the year
I’m yet to find my top read of 2024 as none of the books I’ve read so far have stood out as particularly special. There’s still time I guess!
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society,
Though fictional this book is strong on location
Ten Seconds – Robert Gold
Peter james one of us is dead… set in Brighton and Hove – I’ve read all the novels and I feel I know the place well now
Loved ‘Ahab’sWife’ a hefty tome, beautifully written with vivid descriptions of Kentucky and Nantucket and life st sea in the nineteenth century x
The Wicked of the Earth: A. D. Bergin loved this and mainly set in Newcastle