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  Description Discover the love story of the year ‘It’s the book we all need right now’  SARAH PINBOROUGH ‘Warm, funny, thrilling’  EMMA GANNON ‘Unputdownable’  JENNIFER SAINT ‘Holy s*** ’ GILLIAN MCALLISTER ‘Breathtakingly good’  JOSIE SILVER The book with the IMPOSSIBLE twist – read it to believe it … _____________________________________________________________ Nick : Failed writer. Failed husband. Dog owner. Bee:  Serial dater. Dress maker. Pringles enthusiast. One day, their paths cross over a misdirected email. The connection is instant, electric. They feel like they’ve known each other all their lives. Nick buys a new suit, gets on a train. Bee steps away from her desk, sets off to meet him under the clock at Euston station. Think you know how the rest of the story goes? They did too . . . But this is a story with more twists than most. This is  Impossible . Review One of my favourite films is You've Got Mail and the synopsis of this book sounded like it was along the same l

  Description The new murder mystery thriller from the No.1, million-copy bestseller Lucy Foley Welcome to No.12 Rue des Amants A beautiful old apartment block, far from the glittering lights of the Eiffel Tower and the bustling banks of the Seine. Where nothing goes unseen. And everyone has a story to unlock. The watchful concierge The scorned lover The prying journalist The naïve student The unwanted guest Something terrible happened here last night. A mystery lies behind the door of apartment three. Only you – and the killer – hold the key . . . Review A page turner once it gets going. I think this book of the three the author has written is the most like a Christie plot to me. It also had some glimmers of "Only Murders in the Building", mainly because it's set in a similar apartment block.  The writing sets the scene in Paris and it certainly captured the essence of the city, and its people and their disdain for many things not French. I really felt like I was in Pari

  Description When you fake it for a living, the truth is hard to find... Former child star Lily Thane is now a struggling thirty-something actress. Her old stage-school buddy, Adam Harker, is on the brink of making it big, but he needs an appropriate red-carpet companion to seal the deal, and Lily fits the bill. Soon after signing on the dotted line, Adam's dark side starts to surface and their perfect fauxmance turns toxic. But when Adam winds up dead in a swimming pool, Lily is the only person who cares enough to find out why. She's convinced someone was out to get Adam - and now they're after her... Review This is a book in two halves and I hated the first half. No one in this world of celebs is appealing. The author certainly created a world that I would want no part of. All the self satisfying and narcistic characters didn't encourage me to want to read on. I'm glad I did though as part two of the book things took a very different turn. Part two has the same l

  Description The gloriously funny new novel about living life to the full, whatever your age, from the author of  A Grand Old Time. 55-year-old Georgie Turner doesn’t need a new man. Her daughter, aunt and sister are the most important people in her life (and the most infuriating). But it seems the older they get, the further apart they drift. Georgie’s never been a fan of her sister Bonnie’s husband, so when she learns her brother-in-law has been up to no good, Georgie sees an opportunity to bring the women of her family back together. Along with her 21-year-old daughter and 80-year-old aunt, she packs Bonnie into the back of her car and they leave Liverpool to hide out on the coast of Sussex. With the help of some sun, sea and bottle or two of prosecco, this will be an adventure they’ll never forget. But could the right man find Georgie while she’s stopping the wrong man finding her sister? A gorgeously fun and uplifting novel, perfect for fans of  The 100 Year Old Man  and T he Bes

  Description They vow to make it a day to remember…The laugh-out-loud new novel from the bestselling author of  Dial A For Aunties , winner of the Comedy Women In Print Prize 2021 It’s supposed to be the perfect day… After getting away with  literal  murder, Meddy can’t wait to settle down and marry the love of her life, Nathan. She’s found  the  dress, got the dream venue at Christ Church College, Oxford, plus having a destination wedding comes with the added bonus of not having to invite her very large extended family. …But is it even a wedding if nobody gets killed? Although when her meddling aunties get involved, Meddy knows her wedding is going to be anything but quiet. Even though there’s no dead body hidden in the freezer this time, for better or worse, it’s certainly going to be a day she’s never going to forget… Review I really enjoyed the first book, but this follow on just wasn't for me.  The Bride to be and her Aunties got away with a murder in the first book and it wa

  Description An ingenious dystopian novel of one young woman’s resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society When a recklessly idealistic girl in a dystopian future society dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled world, she is punished by being sent back in time to a region of North America – ‘Wainscotia, Wisconsin’ – that existed eighty years before. Cast adrift in time in this idyllic Midwestern town, she is set upon a course of ‘rehabilitation’ – but she falls in love with a fellow exile and starts to question the constraints of her new existence, with results that are both devastating and liberating. Arresting and visionary, Hazards of Time Travel is an exquisitely wrought love story, a novel of harrowing discovery – and an oblique but powerful response to our current political climate. Review Being a lover of time travel novels I was immediately drawn to this book from the title alone.  We are introduced to a world in 2049 where NAS exists - The North

  Description The Interview  is a gripping locked-room thriller from C. M. Ewan, the acclaimed author of  A Window Breaks  and the half-a-million-copy bestseller  Safe House . It’s 5 p.m. on a Friday. You have been called to an interview for your dream job. In a stunning office thirteen floors above the city below, you are all alone with the man interviewing you. Everyone else has gone home for the weekend. The interview gets more and more disturbing. You’re feeling scared. Your only way out is to answer a seemingly impossible question. If you can’t . . . what happens next? Review I've got mixed feelings about this book. I was certainly intrigued by the premise of the book. What was that seemingly impossible interview question going to be? I got a bit of a sinking feeling when I wondered if the whole book was just going to be in this office, the interviewer and interviewee - and it's a long book. I needn't have worried,  although this is the core of the book there are some