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Nothing Personal for Breakfast by Jennifer Ann Shore
Jennifer Ann Shore does the great romantic story of an undeniable attraction between two people and the suspenseful struggle to get together
Just for You by Jennifer Ann Shore
Warm coming-of-age book about Violet, her friends, her family and their relationships, and first love
Only You in Everything by Jennifer Ann Shore
A wonderful romantic read which is heart-warming, easy reading with vivid characters and dialogue
Frances Finkel and the Passenger Pigeon by D. M. Mahoney
A nice, heart-warming read about teenager Frances Finkel and her yearning to become a fighter plane pilot in the Second World War
The Ice Barn by Ian Pateman
A tale of a frontier town and the promise offered by gold prospecting – dark, threatening and thrilling, and excellently told
Muzungu by Rod Madocks
A reflection on a childhood in Africa at the end of empire and how that has inexorably shaped the author into the man he was and is now
The Seed of Corruption by A.I. Fabler
A book very much of our times, A.I. Fabler’s novel starts as a search for the truth about a copied painting but becomes much more
The Land, The Land by Robin Hawdon
One farmer’s fight to preserve the land that his family has farmed for generations is a story of the little man versus the power of money
The Hotchkiss by Pierre Lawrence
Short but definitely not sweet, this novella holds all the hallmarks of a good short story and is threaded with dark humour throughout