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One August Night by Victoria Hislop

Continuing where The Island finished, One August Night takes us back to Crete and the families of Plaka and their subsequent dramas

A story of colonialism, tradition and families, told from the perspective of a British woman heading to India as it establishes independence

A long collection full of an outpouring of emotion and experience, freely formed with some true moments of clarity and power

Making a deal with a devil can mean an exciting life, full of promise but what if you have no-one to share that with?

In this rather quirky but nice book, Tess and her love troubles frame the action, leading to some philosophising about love on the side.

Not for the fainthearted due to its controversial subject matter, The Roanoke Girls is intense, compelling, unsettling -not easily forgotten

An easy read with all that you would expect from Bob Mortimer: tall tales, humour, sentiment and honesty.

Told through the memories of an elderly lady, a sad, but less intense than anticipated, story of the pressures of women created by tradition

Reads like a travel book but is also the journey of the writer himself, a cultural exploration and a celebration of the American people

A day in the life of Calem Honeycutt, Missouri farmer, a man struggling to survive in a world where he feels he no longer belongs – intense and real