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The Road Trip
The instant uk sunday times bestseller ‘beth o’leary is that rare, one-in-a-million talent who can make you laugh, swoon, cry and ache all in the same book’ emily henry ‘read this! absolutely loved it!’ christina lauren addie and her sister are on an epic road trip to a friend’s wedding in rural scotland. but, not long after setting off, a car slams into theirs. the driver is none other than addie’s ex, who she hasn’t seen since their traumatic break-up two years earlier. dylan and his best mate are heading to the wedding too, so addie has no choice but to offer them a ride. and with four hundred miles to go, they can’t avoid confronting the very messy history of their relationship . . . will they make it to the wedding? and, more importantly, is this really the end of the road for addie and dylan? ‘funny, relatable and tender’ red ‘this book is perfect’ rosie walsh ‘beth is quite rightly earning her title as “queen of uplit”‘ prima ‘if richard curtis and nora ephron made a story baby’ zoella book club ‘so romantic and moving and brilliantly told’ louise o’neill ‘o’leary does it again! the road trip is another sure-fire hit, filled with characters you won’t forget’ mike gayle ‘an achingly tender love story’ richard roper
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The Accused
Theodore boone is the thirteen year old who knows more about the law than most adult lawyers. he certainly never expected to be the victim of crime himself. but then his bike is vandalised, he’s attacked while doing his homework and, worst of all, framed for a robbery. when stolen computer equipment turns up in theo’s school locker, the police start leaning on him hard. and he is the only suspect. what if he is found guilty? what about his dreams of becoming a lawyer? in a race against time, aided by his renegade uncle, ike, theo must find the real felon and reveal the true motivation behind the crimes of which he stands accused.
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Should I Tell You?
From the queen of feelgood fiction, an uplifting new novel of friendship, families and finding love . . . ‘what a gorgeous book! jill has a great gift for characterisation – nuanced, interesting, believable people but created with a charming lightness of touch. thanks to jill’s warmth, wisdom and emotional intelligence, this book was a huge pleasure to read’ marian keyes ‘a sparkling, joyful read! jill’s books always keep you guessing to the very end’ phillipa ashley ‘a good story like this needs a quiet afternoon, a sofa and a warm blanket. moving and heartfelt! enjoy’ fern britton amber, lachlan and raffaele met as teenagers in the cornish seaside home of kind-hearted foster parents. years on, the bond between them is unbreakable but amber has a secret. she’s in love with lachlan. she can’t tell him, because that would never work – he’s not the settling-down type. surely it’s better to keep him as a friend than to risk losing him? raffaele has his own dilemma. vee was the dream girlfriend, until it all went horribly wrong . . . and he can’t understand why. is vee hiding something from him? now their widowed foster dad teddy has found new love. charming and beautiful, olga seems perfect. but is she? or will she break teddy’s fragile heart? against a backdrop of sparkling seas and sunny skies, the unexpected is always just around the corner. welcome to lanrock! gloriously romantic and completely life-affirming, jill mansell’s wonderful new novel set in sunny cornwall will make you believe in love again
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The Forgetting Time
‘when i wasn’t reading sharon guskin’s the forgetting time, i was itching to return to it’ jodi picoult a richard and judy book club selection noah is four and wants to go home. the only trouble is he’s already there. noah is a little boy who knows things he shouldn’t and remembers things he should have forgotten. because as well as being a four-year-old called noah, he remembers being a nine-year-old called tommy. he remembers his house. his family. his mother. and now he wants to go home. two boys. two mothers. one unforgettable story . . .
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Camino Island
All trails became dead-ends. tips that had at first seemed urgent now faded away. the waiting game began. whoever had the manuscripts would want money, and a lot of it. they would surface eventually, but where and when, and how much would they want? the most daring and devastating heist in literary history targets a high security vault located deep beneath princeton university. valued at $25 million (though some would say priceless) the five manuscripts of f scott fitzgerald’s only novels are amongst the most valuable in the world. after an initial flurry of arrests, both they and the ruthless gang of thieves who took them have vanished without trace. dealing in stolen books is a dark business, and few are initiated to its arts – which puts bruce kable right on the fbi’s rare asset recovery unit’s watch list. a struggling writer burdened by debts, mercer mann spent summers on florida’s idyllic camino island as a kid, in her grandmother’s beach cottage. now she is being made an offer she can’t refuse: to return to the peace of the island, to write her novel – and get close to a certain infamous bookseller, and his interesting collection of manuscripts . . .
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Four
A collection of four pre-divergent stories plus three additional scenes from divergent, all told from tobias’s point of view, that follow tobias’s transfer from abnegation to dauntless, his dauntless initiation, the first clues that a foul plan is brewing in the leadership of two factions, and the weeks after he meets tris prior.
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The Rosie Effect
The rosie effect is the charming and hilarious sequel to graeme simsion’s bestselling debut novel the rosie project. until a year ago, forty-one-year-old geneticist don tillman had never had a second date. until he met rosie, ‘the world’s most incompatible woman’. now, living in new york city, they have survived ten months and ten days of marriage. but though rosie has taught him the joys of unscheduled sex and spontaneous meal planning, life is still not plain sailing for don. not least with the sudden arrival of his best friend gene, serial philanderer, who takes up residence on their sofa. then rosie drops the mother of all bombshells. and soon don must face her hormonally induced irrational behaviour as he prepares for the biggest challenge of his previously ordered life – at the same time as dodging deportation, prosecution and professional disgrace. is don tillman ready to become the man he always dreamed of being? or will he revert to his old ways and risk losing rosie forever? join don and rosie in the next chapter of their weird and wonderful journey in graeme simsion’s unmissable new novel, the rosie effect. praise for graeme simsion:’warm-hearted and perfectly pitched, with profound themes that are worn lightly, this very enjoyable read promises to put don tillman on the comic literary map somewhere between mr pooter and adrian mole.’ guardian’funny, endearing, and pure, wonderful escapism.’ independent’don tillman is one of the most endearing, charming and fascinating literary characters i have met in a long time.’ the timesgraeme simsion is a full-time writer. previously an it consultant and educator, he wrote his first book in 1994 (the standard reference on data modelling). graeme’s debut novel, the rosie project, has had phenomenal success in over forty-two countries and has sold over half a million copies to date. the rosie effect is his second novel. graeme lives in australia with his wife anne, a professor of psychiatry and published author, and their two children.
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Alias Grace
Sometimes i whisper it over to myself: murderess. murderess. it rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor.’ grace marks. female fiend? femme fatale? or weak and unwilling victim? around the true story of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the 1840s, margaret atwood has created an extraordinarily potent tale of sexuality, cruelty and mystery.
