You Had Me At Hello
Mhairi McFarlane What happens when the one that got away comes back? Find out in this sparkling debut from Mhairi McFarlane. ‘Think of the great duos of history. We’re just like them.’ ‘You mean like Kylie and Jason? Torvill and…
Elmer
David McKee Elmer the elephant is bright-colored patchwork all over. No wonder the other elephants laugh at him! If he were ordinary elephant color, the others might stop laughing. That would make Elmer feel better, wouldn’t it? The surprising conclusion…
Thursday's In The Park
Hilary Boyd Jeanie has been a loving wife to George for over thirty years, a devoted mother to their daughter and, recently, an adoring grandmother – all this despite the fact that several years ago, George withdrew from their marital…
Black Spring
Alison Croggon Black Spring takes the passionate story of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights and re-imagines it in a fantasy nineteenth-century society set in savage lands sustained by wizardry, where its people live by the vengeance code of vendetta. Like Wuthering…
Time Breaking
Barbara Spencer Whilst staying in a 17th Century Manor house, fifteen year old Molly accidentally slips through time and reappears in 1648, towards the end of the Civil War to find she has taken the place of Molly Hampton, the…
Helen's 2012 review
What is your favourite read of 2012? hmmm, choosing one favourite is always hard so I’m gonna cheat and chose two! These are two books whose themes will stay with me and that really made me think, but were easy…
Me Before You
Jojo Moyes Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her…
The Island
Victoria Hislop The Petrakis family lives in the small Greek seaside village of Plaka. Just off the coast is the tiny island of Spinalonga, where the nation’s leper colony once was located—a place that has haunted four generations of Petrakis…
Becoming Jane Eyre
Shelia Kohler The year is 1846. In a cold parsonage on the gloomy Yorkshire moors, a family seems cursed with disaster. A mother and two children dead. A father sick, without fortune, and hardened by the loss of his two…
League of Strays
L B Schulman This suspenseful debut follows a group of teenage misfits in their delicious quest for revenge on those who have wronged them at their high school. When a mysterious note appears in Charlotte’s mailbox inviting her to join…
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