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  Description HUSTLERS meets BIG LITTLE LIES in  the heist of the summer  coming June 2022… Meet Ava: rule-abiding lawyer who has ticked all of life’s boxes. She’s married to a successful surgeon and has just taken an indefinite career break to raise her adorable toddler. A picture-perfect life.   Meet Winnie: Ava’s old college roommate. Once awkward, quiet and apparently academically challenged, she left Stanford in a shroud of scandal. But now, she is charismatic, wealthy and has returned to town dripping in designer accessories. An actual perfect life.   When the two women bump into one another at a local coffee shop, it seems like fate has intervened: Winnie’s new-found success is courtesy of a shady business and she needs a favour; Ava is realising she is not built for the stay-at-home life. But what starts as one favour turns into two, then three, and soon Ava is in far deeper than she ever imagined.    Now Ava has to make the ultimate decision: ...

  Description *** A BBC2  BETWEEN THE COVERS  BOOK CLUB PICK *** *** BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME *** In Second World War Bath, young, naïve wireless engineer Will meets Austrian refugee Elsa Klein: she is sophisticated, witty and worldly, and at last his life seems to make sense . . . until, soon after, the newly married couple's home is bombed, and Will awakes from the wreckage to find himself alone. No one has heard of Elsa Klein. They say he was never married. Seventy years later, social worker Laura is battling her way out of depression and off medication. Her new case is a strange, isolated old man whose house hasn't changed since the war. A man who insists his wife vanished many, many years before. Everyone thinks he's suffering dementia. But Laura begins to suspect otherwise . . . Review I loved A Boy Made of Blocks, but this is not really in the same league. I took some time to get into this one. The story begins with Will having rejected any help from Social Serv...

  Description Are you looking to start a new chapter? Role:  Bookseller wanted! (3-month fixed-term contract) Location:  A luxury resort on the tropical island of Bounty Cove Cay. Skills required:  The ideal candidate will have experience in a retail environment, preferably within the book industry. Desired qualities:  This role will appeal to a book lover with an adventurous streak who is looking for an escape from their everyday life. What to expect:  Sun, sea, and a bookshop that is far from thriving. No one said it would be smooth sailing! Please note:   You may fall in love with more than just our island along the way... Looking for your next beach read? Look no further! Escape with  The Holiday Bookshop , perfect for fans of Jo Thomas, Phillipa Ashley and Jenny Colgan... Review A lovely escapist read for the summer. I did mostly enjoy this book, what's not to love? A book about running a bookshop and on an island in the Maldives.  In fa...

  Description 'The  Get Out  meets  The Devil Wears Prada  crossover you've been waiting for' Cosmopolitan 'Riveting, fearless and vividly original' Emily St. John Mandel 'The year's most buzzed-about debut'  i Get Out  meets  The Devil Wears Prada  in this electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of book publishing. Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and the micro-aggressions, she’s thrilled when Hazel starts working in the cubicle beside hers. They’ve only just started comparing natural hair care regimens, though, when a string of uncomfortable events cause Nella to become Public Enemy Number One and Hazel, the Office Darling. Then the notes begin to appear on Nella’s desk: LEAVE WAGNER. NOW. It’s hard to believe Hazel is behind these hostile messages. But as Nella sta...