After another row with her mother, Kathryn collects her belongings and slams the door for the final time. It's 1974 and the beginning of a new life - but how much can Kathryn really leave behind? She takes a live-in job as a waitress at a country house, working alongside the outrageous Dee-Dee. Both 17, and both with their own tragic past, they learn how to bag a bloke, get through testing times and even how to get on the property ladder. A Young Woman's Guide to Carrying On is a tender, witty and wise novel of love, adultery, second chances and questionable parenting.  Heart-warming and heart breaking in equal measure.

A Young Woman's Guide to Carrying on

Literature & Fiction

Wosskow, Jilly

Humor & Satire

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The China Bird

Doran, Bryony

Literary

When Kate marries the wild, sexy Frenchman she meets on holiday, everybody is stunned. Marc, however, is an attentive and adoring husband - until one morning he goes out, and doesn't come back. After three years of searching for him, Kate has to move on. She cuts her hair, throws away his things and finds new love. Then one morning she wakes up with Marc asleep in her bed. He asks for seven days to prove his love. Kate knows Marc is not the man she once fell in love with, but as he discovers, she too has changed.

Seven Days to Tell You

Soames, Ruby

In the summer of 1983, Olivia and Eve find a baby in a phone box beside a country road in Suffolk. The girls are nineteen, on holiday and staying with a young medical student, James. The events of that summer cast a long shadow over their careers, marriages and motherhood. When they meet again 25 years later, the baby in the phone box returns to haunt them, and they are forced to confront the truth that has remained silent all this time. The Partridge and the Pelican explores motherhood, secrets and the enduring ties of friendship.

The Partridge and the Pelican

Crowther, Rachel

On the run from a killer, Annie and her mother flee to a remote farmhouse in New England. When Annie finds an unsent letter from a debutante in the Civil War, she is drawn to the story of a Southern girl immersed in a love that cannot see light in the American South. Determined to find out what happened to her, Annie risks bringing the killer to her farmhouse door. Underground chronicles two remarkable journeys - one across modern-day America and another through a country on the brink of its greatest historical change.

Underground

O'Brien, Gayle

Genre Fiction

Paula abandons her London life and travels through the night to a Scottish village where she once spent a childhood holiday. Desperate to avoid a painful loss, she tries to hide away. However, the locals are keen to know more about their unhappy visitor and she is soon tangled in the life of 12-year-old Sanders. Can Paula help her new friend? Can we ever run away from the past?

Tandem

Morgan, Alex

Booksellers never know what they might find in an estate sale. When our man finds the tools of England's last hangman, along with the diary of a condemned man he executed, he knows he has a mystery to solve. Was there a miscarriage of justice? Did the wrong man die at the noose? And just who is telling the truth? A mystery that has readers guessing to the very last page. If you like fiction by Robert Goddard and Peter Lovesey, don't miss A Coin for the Executioner.

A Coin for the Hangman

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Spurrier, Ralph

Mystery

It's 1875 and London's East End heaves with children who work as prostitutes, hawkers, beggars and thieves. Constance rescues as many as she can but feels overwhelmed. Then a solution is offered that sounds perfect - Canada, with its wide green plains, has farmers who need help, while their wives want housemaids. Shipping children to this land of plenty offers them a future far from the temptations of London's overcrowded streets. Widow, Mary Trupper, is wary, but the promise of good food and an education for her children is strong.
Are the fields green? Is the food plentiful? For some, yes. For others, the harsh winters reflect the welcome.
Based on the true story of the British Home Children who were shipped to Canada in the 1870s.
Regular spikes into top Kindle sales ranking when mentioned in British Home Children historical research groups and blogs.

Listen to the Child

Elizabeth Howard

It is the 1960s and a group of young writers and artists gather on the Greek island of Hydra. Leonard Cohen is at the start of his career and in love with Marianne, who is also muse to her ex-husband, Axel. Australian authors George Johnston and Charmian Clift write, drink and fight. It is a hedonistic time of love, sex and new ideas. As the island hums with excitement, Jack and Frieda Silver join the community, hoping to mend their broken marriage. However, Greece is overtaken by a military junta and the artistic idyll is threatened.
In this fictionalised account, Tamar Hodes explores the destructive side of creativity and the price that we pay for our dreams.

The Water and the Wine

Tamar Hodes

Romance

The Jacobite's Wife

Edwards, Morag

British & Irish

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