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Entanglement - Andrew J Thomas

Description Five friends, four mysteries, three deaths, two road trips and a secret that will change the world ... Entanglement is a quirky mystery with a sci-fi twist that’s influenced by the humour of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett/Neil Gaiman. David Marston drops out of contact, and his fiancé is worried. A secret research base vanishes, and MI5 is nervous. Then a colony of moles goes missing, an ordinary house brick appears out of thin air, and intertwined with it all is the story of a woman continually shifting between parallel worlds. But how can all this possibly be connected? And why are cakes so important? Entanglement  is a warm, funny and original tale about friendship, loss and coping when you’re out of your depth. It also invites the reader to ask, “What if?” What if that person at university had said yes? What if you hadn’t answered that voicemail? Review I love time travel books and whilst this isn't strictly time travel, it's time disp

Eat Yourself Healthy - Megan Rossi

Description 'Learn to love your gut with this jam-packed book from Dr Megan'  - Jamie Oliver 'I've learnt so much from Megan,  looking after my gut is now a priority and I feel so good for it.  She's a huge inspiration to us'  - Ella Mills, author and founder of  Deliciously Ella The go-to lifestyle guide for a happy gut that will transform your health and wellbeing. Drawing from the latest research and a decade of experience as a dietitian and consultant at The Gut Health Clinic, Dr Megan Rossi explains how to feed your gut for a happier, healthier you using simple, delicious and gut-boosting recipes. Eat Yourself Healthy  is packed with over 50 delicious, easy-to-make meal ideas from delicious breakfast options such as banana, fig and courgette breakfast loaf and chickpea crepes, to crowd-pleasing dinner recipes including creamy pistachio and spinach pesto pasta and mouth-watering satay tofu skewers. Alongside Dr Rossi's gut-friendly recipe

The Postscript - Cecelia Ahern

Description The long-awaited sequel to the bestselling  PS, I Love You   It's been seven years since Holly Kennedy's husband died – six since she read his final letter, urging Holly to find the courage to forge a new life.   She’s proud of all the ways in which she has grown and evolved. But when a group inspired by Gerry's letters, calling themselves the PS, I Love You Club, approaches Holly asking for help, she finds herself drawn back into a world that she worked so hard to leave behind.   Reluctantly, Holly beings a relationship with the club, even as their friendship threatens to destroy the peace she believes she has achieved. As each of these people calls upon Holly to help them leave something meaningful behind for their loved ones, Holly will embark on a remarkable journey – one that will challenge her to ask whether embracing the future means betraying the past, and what it means to love someone forever… Review Having read PS, I Love You several year

The Nursery - Asia Mackay

Description ASSASSIN. MOTHER. WIFE. MEET THE NEW HEROINE FOR OUR TIMES. Lex Tyler is trying to have it all, but being a working mother is so much more difficult when you're a secret agent for an underground branch of the security services. Platform Eight have been tasked with tracking down and eliminating the traitor in MI6 who has been selling information to the highest bidder through a headhunting website for the criminal underworld that connects intelligence operatives with all manner of bad people with a simple right swipe. Deals get made. Secrets get sold. Missions fail. Agents die. Lex's own home life is not much easier. With a husband who rings her in the middle of a gunfight to complain she's yet again forgotten to pick up his dry-cleaning, and a two-year-old daughter who has a newfound love of biting, surviving both the Terrible Twos and a traitor might just be too much for one exhausted mother to handle. Killing Eve meets Mick Herron in this gripping a

The Understudy - Sophie Hannah; Clare Mackintosh; B A Paris; Holly Brown

Description Written By Sophie Hannah, BA Paris, Clare Mackintosh, and Holly Brown, this psychological thriller is perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty and Louise Candlish HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO PROTECT YOUR DAUGHTER? Carolyn, Bronnie, Elise, and Kendall are bound together by one thing - their four daughters are best friends at the highly competitive Orla Flynn Academy for the Performing Arts. Imogen Curwood is a new girl at the Academy and her behaviour is odd from the start. On the day she arrives, bad things start to happen. As one threatening incident follows another, the four mothers begin to ask themselves: are their girls in danger? When an attempted murder rocks the school, Imogen is pleased to report that she has an alibi. If she isn't the guilty party, someone else must be. Carolyn, Bronnie, Elise and Kendall are determined to uncover the truth and protect their daughters. But are they prepared to risk their own secrets being exposed? THE UNDERSTUDY  IS TH

The Weighing of the Heart - Paul Tudor Owen #LoveBooksGroupTours

Description Following a sudden break-up, Englishman in New York Nick Braeburn takes a room with the elderly Peacock sisters in their lavish Upper East Side apartment, and finds himself increasingly drawn to the priceless piece of Egyptian art on their study wall - and to Lydia, the beautiful Portuguese artist who lives across the roof garden. But as Nick draws Lydia into a crime he hopes will bring them together, they both begin to unravel, and each find that the other is not quite who they seem. Paul Tudor Owen's intriguing debut novel brilliantly evokes the New York of Paul Auster and Joseph O'Neill. Review I am thrilled to be on the blog tour for this book. I thought from the description it would be a book I'd like, especially as it is set in New York. Well I didn't just like it, I LOVED it! Straight away I just loved the character of Nick, a Brit in NY.  I'm not sure why exactly maybe it was his slightly laid back approach to life and his ca

Milkman - Anna Burns

Description In an unnamed city, where to be interesting is dangerous, an eighteen-year-old woman has attracted the unwanted and unavoidable attention of a powerful and frightening older man, 'Milkman'. In this community, where suggestions quickly become fact, where gossip and hearsay can lead to terrible consequences, what can she do to stop a rumour once it has started? Milkman is persistent, the word is spreading, and she is no longer in control . . . Review I wasn't going to read this book, but as I had just been over the water myself and was intrigued to find out more about an account of the "troubles" I decided to. Luckily for me it was also available on Borrowbox. I had to keep leaving off the book to read other things. Partly because it was heavy going with the constant stream of narrative and the type face so small, partly because it was in places unnerving and mainly because it was annoying with the author choosing not to use any names. I