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Love Potion Number 10
Betsy Woodman - Paperback - Holt
The Jolly Grant House still welcomes all its visitors with the sign Jana Bibi's Excellent Fortunes hanging proudly outside its front door. Jana's fortune-telling has brought a lot of attention to the small town of Hamara Nagar, and now that the dust has settled and the town is safe from the threat of being flooded by a government dam, all eyes are on the Scottish-born card-reader Jana and her feisty, loose-beaked parrot, Mr Ganguly. Some people, though, are not to be trusted.
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Little White Lies
Lesley Naa Norle Lokko - Hardback - Orion
In a beachfront mansion in Martha's Vineyard, Annick and Rebecca have left their young children in the care of their life-long friend Tash. Tash has made millions from her fashion business and treating her friends to a holiday makes all the hard work worthwhile. But by the end of the afternoon, one of the children will have vanished.
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Little White Lies
Lesley Naa Norle Lokko - Paperback - Orion
In a beachfront mansion in Martha's Vineyard, Annick and Rebecca have left their young children in the care of their life-long friend Tash. Tash has made millions from her fashion business and treating her friends to a holiday makes all the hard work worthwhile. But by the end of the afternoon, one of the children will have vanished.
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Looking After Your Own
Evelyn Hood - Paperback - Sphere
The lives and personalities of all the tenants living the Paisley tenement building in 1941 couldn't be more different, but they are all interconnected. Ellen and Donnie Borland renounced their respective Protestant and Catholic religions to marry for love. Older now, Ellen misses her faith while working hard to support her lazy husband. Julia and Frank McCosh are musicians who entertain the other tenants with their rehearsals. Celia Goudie is a young bride whose husband is in the air force. Lena Fulton is terrified of her husband being killed in the war and sinks into a deep depression upon the loss of her baby. All of the tenants are concerned with the threat of the war going on around them, but little do they realise that the most immediate danger comes from within.
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The Lonely Furrow
Pamela Kavanagh - Paperback - Ulverscroft
Disaster strikes the Drummond family when the Glasgow Bank collapses, resulting in them losing their business and - subsequently - their respected place in society. An unexpected inheritance saves the day, but there are mixed feelings for the family as they relocate to a run-down farm in Shropshire.
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Last Dance At The Wrecker's Ball
Robert Douglas - Paperback - Hachette Scotland
Glasgow, 1971. The old way of life is under threat for the tight-knit community in Dalbeattie Street, Maryhill. The shadow of the wrecker's ball looms large over their homes, and they must face the choice of moving to a new estate or dispersing throughout the city.
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£16.14
Life After Life
Kate Atkinson - Hardback - Doubleday
What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to? 'Life After Life' follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. With wit and compassion, she finds warmth even in life's bleakest moments, and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past.
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£11.89
Life After Life
Kate Atkinson - Paperback - Doubleday
What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to? 'Life After Life' follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. With wit and compassion, she finds warmth even in life's bleakest moments, and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past.
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The Limpopo Academy Of Private Detection
Alexander McCall Smith - Paperback - Abacus
Mma Ramotswe, normally a sound and peaceful sleeper, finds her slumbers disturbed by a dream of a tall man beneath an acacia tree. But she is not quite ready to discover what this vision may portend. Soon even Mma Makutsi, now in the first flush of married bliss, has to admit that untoward things are occuring around the agency.
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The Loveliest Chocolate Shop In Paris
Jenny Colgan - Paperback - Sphere
As dawn breaks over the Pont Neuf, and the cobbled alleyways of Paris come to life, Anna Trent is already awake and at work; mixing and stirring the finest, smoothest, richest chocolate - made entirely by hand, it is sold to the grandes dames of Paris. It's a huge shift from the chocolate factory she worked in at home in the north of England. But when an accident changed everything, Anna was thrown back in touch with her French teacher, Claire , who offered her the chance of a lifetime - to work in Paris with her former sweetheart, Thierry, a master chocolatier.
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