Rooks Nest

June Barraclough

“The time is the mid-nineteenth century and Meta Moore is living with her adopted Aunt Augusta, at Hartsedge Hall in Yorkshire. Her dream is to return to Rooks Nest, the house where she was born – and where her mother died – with its lake and neglected gardens. Her obsession with the place does not diminish as she reaches adolescence and meets her first object of affection: Lavinia Logan, a “woman of the world” who comes to teach at her aunt’s school; nor later when she goes away from home as a governess to a Jewish family and whilst these falls passionately in love with a young musician, Daniel Reiss. Never a conformist, Meta has a painful gorwing up before she is able to discover happiness.” – book cover.
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The Ragged School

F.K.Salwood

Having lost her husband at Dunkirk, Rebecca Daniels is not only raising her young daughter, Kim, single-handedly, but is coping with the demands of full-time teaching.

Then fate plays a hand in the form of a letter from Rebecca’s Great Aunt Amelia. She is the owner of a school at Hornchurch in Essex and invites Rebecca to come and teach there. She accepts the invitation with relief and soon forms a close bond with her feisty great aunt. Rebecca also comes to the attention of several suitors including Sergeant Luke Adams, a Cornish pilot from the neighbouring RAF base, and the attractive Dr. Christopher Bates….” – book cover

Kick Back

Val McDermid

Kate Brannigan, feisty Manchester-based PI, is back, investigating the bizarre case of the missing conservatories. Before long she’s up to her neck in crooked land deals, mortgage scams, financial chicanery and murder. But when a favour for a friend puts Kate’s own life in danger, bizarre is not the first word she thinks of….” – book cover
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Gold Mine

Wilbur Smith

Set in South Africa …, a brutal tale of violence, greed, chicanery and lust amid the gold dust.. packed with action and excitement it surges along in crisp style. – Sunday Express
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Dagon’s Bell and Other Discords

Brian Lumley

Here is another devil’s dozen of nerve-shredding stories of horror and the supernatural from the man who gave you the internationally bestselling Necroscope and Vampire World series. Brian Lumley’s Dagon’s Bell and Other Discords maintains the great tradition of total fear established by his Fruiting Bodies and Other Fungi.” – book cover
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A Good Yarn

Debbie Macomber

This one is a good read for a wet weekend or for those times when you are feeling a little down and need something light to refresh you. It is set in Seattle and relates the events which follow the establishment of Lydia Hoffman’s knitting group in her yarn shop called A Good Yarn. The book itself is a good yarn.
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Snakecharmers in Texas

Clive James

“This collection of essays brings the celebrated Jamesian wit to bear on a dazzingly diverse assembly of personalities, places and burning issues of the eighties. He tells of such wonders of the world as the Statue of Liberty and the Sydney Opera House, and visits the Nuremburg stadium littered with crushed Fanta can where the master race once assembled shoulder to brown-shirted shoulder. He reports on the Royal progress through the Californian heartland of Ron and Nancy’s USA and the invasion of Normandy by an ageing army of D-Day veterans out on an anniversary spree. He profiles Barry Manilow in “a detergent-blue suit with diamante trim” and Philip Larkin “wearing his Library Association tie” alongside the seductive Diana Cooper and the searing Bob Geldorf and in company with the frost-borne footwork of Torvill and Dean.” – book cover
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