A Slot Machine Ate My Mid Life Crisis
Irene Woodbury Quirky jobs, wacky friends, hot crushes, and an unraveling marriage are all part of this darkly funny novel describing 45 year-old newlywed Wendy Sinclair’s life in Las Vegas after she impulsively decides to stay following a bizarre girls’…
Twitchhiker: How One Man Travelled the World by Twitter
Paul Smith There were five rules of Twitchhiker: I can only accept offers of travel and accommodation from people on Twitter; I can’t make any travel plans further than three days in advance; I can only spend money on food,…
On The Shelf
ON THE SHELF: This is Big Book Little Book’s version of the meme ‘In My Mailbox’ created by The Story Siren. Each month we post about all of the books we have added to our book shelves in the preceding…
But Can You Drink The Water?
Jan Hurst – Nicholson A humorous portrayal of a naive working-class family’s attempts to fit in after emigrating from Liverpool to South Africa. When Frank Turner informs his wife and teenage son they are emigrating from Liverpool to sunny South…
On The Shelf:
ON THE SHELF: Our version of the meme ‘In My Mailbox’ created by The Story Siren. Each month we post about all of the books we have added to our book shelves in the preceding month, whether they be bought, borrowed,…
A Perfect Proposal
Katie Fforde Sophie Apperly has spent her whole life pleasing others– but when she realises her family see her less as indispensable treasure and more as general dogsbody, she decides she’s had enough. So when an old friend offers her…
The Salt Road
Jane Johnson The desert lay before them, and the secrets of the amulet…From Tafraout’s magnificent mountainside, Isobel absorbs the heat and romance of the Moroccan vista before her, with mosque and homes scattered far below. But a mere slip sees…
Love, Sex and Tesco's Finest Cava
Steve Carter Film fanatic Rob Smith is thirty-eight, newly single and on the wrong side of two marriages. Rob’s looking to get back into dating but quickly discovers that in the ten years he’s been married the rules of the…
The Silent Girl
Tess Gerritsen When a hand is found in a Chinatown alley in downtown Boston, detective Jane Rizzoli climbs to a nearby rooftop and finds the hand’s owner – a woman whose throat has been slashed so deeply that her head…
On The Shelf
This is Big Book Little Book’s version of the meme ‘In My Mailbox’ created by The Story Siren. Each month we post about all of the books we have added to our book shelves in the preceding month, whether they…
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