Published By: HQPages: 162Date Released: 01/11/2018 Before A Christmas Carol there was…Miss Marley. A seasonal tale of kindness and goodwill. Orphans Clara and Jacob Marley live by their wits, scavenging for scraps in the poorest alleyways of London, in the shadow of the workhouse. Every night, Jacob promises his little sister ‘tomorrow will be better’Continue reading “Miss Marley – Vanessa Lafaye and Rebecca Mascull”
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The Winter Garden – Heidi Swain
Published By: Simon and SchusterPages: 400Date Released: 01/10/2020 Freya Fuller is estranged from her parents and has been following her childhood dream of becoming a gardener ever since. When an opportunity to design a winter garden opens up at a Victorian property in Nightingale Square, Freya jumps at the chance to make a fresh start.Continue reading “The Winter Garden – Heidi Swain”
I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day – Milly Johnson
Published By: Simon & SchusterPages: 416Date Released: 29/10/2020 It’s nearly Christmas and it’s snowing, hard. Deep in the Yorkshire Moors nestles a tiny hamlet, with a pub at its heart. As the snow falls, the inn will become an unexpected haven for six people forced to seek shelter there… Mary has been trying to getContinue reading “I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day – Milly Johnson”
One More For Christmas – Sarah Morgan
Published By: Harper CollinsPages: 416Date Released: 06/10/2020 For sisters Samantha and Ella Mitchell, Christmas is their most precious time of the year – a time for togetherness, love and celebration. Most of all, it’s about making up for everything their childhood Christmases lacked. But this year, they’ll be buying presents for the most unexpected guestContinue reading “One More For Christmas – Sarah Morgan”
The Phone Box at the Edge of the World – Laura Imai Messina
Translated By: Lucy RandPublished By: Manilla PressPages: 416Date Released: 25/06/2020 We all have something to tell those we have lost. When Yui loses her mother and daughter in the tsunami, she wonders how she will ever carry on. Yet, in the face of this unthinkable loss, life must somehow continue. Then one day she hearsContinue reading “The Phone Box at the Edge of the World – Laura Imai Messina”
Charles Dickens: Places and Objects of Interest – Paul Kendall
Published By: Frontline BooksPages: 312Released On: 30/11/2021 Few writers have had a greater impact upon British society than Charles Dickens. His stories, and, in particular, his many memorable characters, highlighted the life of the forgotten poor and disadvantaged within society at a time when Britain was the leading economic and political power in the world.Continue reading “Charles Dickens: Places and Objects of Interest – Paul Kendall”
The Sin Eater – Megan Campisi
Published By: MantlePages: 368Date Released: 23/07/2020 A Sin Eater’s duty is a necessary evil: she hears the final private confessions of the dying, eats their sins as a funeral rite, and so guarantees their souls access to heaven. It is always women who eat sins – since it was Eve who first ate the ForbiddenContinue reading “The Sin Eater – Megan Campisi”
The Little Big Things – Henry Fraser
Published By: Seven DialsPages: 192Date Released: 07/09/2017 Being challenged in life is inevitable but being defeated is optional. Henry Fraser was 17 years old when a tragic accident severed his spinal cord. Paralysed from the shoulders down, he has conquered unimaginable difficulty to embrace life and a new way of living. Through challenging adversity, heContinue reading “The Little Big Things – Henry Fraser”
The Corset – Laura Purcell
Published By: Raven BooksPages: 392Date Released: 20/09/2018 Is prisoner Ruth Butterham mad or a murderer? Victim or villain? Dorothea and Ruth. Prison visitor and prisoner. Powerful and powerless. Dorothea Truelove is young, wealthy and beautiful. Ruth Butterham is young, poor and awaiting trial for murder. When Dorothea’s charitable work leads her to Oakgate Prison, sheContinue reading “The Corset – Laura Purcell”
This is Going to Hurt – Adam Kay
Published By: PicadorPages: 280Date Released: 12/09/2017 Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more than you. Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, Adam Kay’s “This is Going to Hurt” provides aContinue reading “This is Going to Hurt – Adam Kay”
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