A novel which is a mixture of fairytale, historical fiction and thriller, which explores immortality and the ambitions of man to acquire it
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The Whispering Palms by Annette Leigh
A search for a missing girl takes our heroine, Andie Yates back to Bayswater where she grew up and which holds good and bad memories for her
Dreams of Drowning by Patricia Averbach
A novel of two tales, beautifully told, which weaves the weight of loss, youthful idealism and the limitations of old age together
A Paper Orchestra by Michael Jamin
An honest, sometimes excruciatingly so, collection of personal essays, which is also incredibly witty and made this reader laugh out loud
The Greater Good by Frank Sapienza
Frank Sapienza gives us a modern moral thriller about Dr Jon Morrison who is given a choice to help his son but at what ethical cost?
Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty
A tale of three sisters, starting towards the end point and leading us through their lives with all the ups and downs, upsets and triumphs.
The Locked Room by Elly Griffiths
A Ruth Galloway mystery which is set at the start of the pandemic and which involves a number of mysterious deaths of women
Death in the Tallgrass by Donald Willerton
A gripping tale of discovery and redemption set in the early twentieth century America filled with treachery, tribes and tribulation
Dear Mrs Bird by A. J. Pearce
A nice novel about Emmy Lake, a young woman in the London Blitz, who decides to answer letters for an agony aunt who finds them Unacceptable
The Wolf Wilder by Katherine Rundell
A great children’s book but more than that, a great story book, about Feo and her wolves, and fighting the enemy intent on her destruction
Scuffed Granny 