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  • The Shadow Wife - Gayle Ridinger - 3D book cover
    Contemporary

    The Shadow Wife – Gayle Ridinger

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    ‘The Shadow Wife’ is a thought-provoking novel of life and fate – of belonging and discovering your own individuality – of finding your place in this world regardless of age. Introduction Twin sisters at the hairdresser. It could not get more innocent than that, right? But the blonde and brunette insist upon becoming identical again. Like when they were young and even their parents had difficulty keeping them apart. One is eager, the other is anxious. Both are determined. As to the why we have no clue – there’s more than meets the eye… My Thoughts What a thought-provoking tale of fate and life itself. Sometimes instant decisions and chance…

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  • Ladies' Day - Sarah Barton - Book Cover
    Women's Fiction

    Ladies’ Day – Sarah Barton

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    Come with me to Pelthams, the Manchester department store with its fading glory where nothing is what it seems and many a secret is kept… Ladies’ Day is Sarah Barton’s fascinating, entertaining and enchanting debut novel that touches your heart and brings both a smile to your face and a tear to your eyes. I love it! Introduction It is May and whilst her mother keeps nagging at her, Amanda is examining her metal box which “held every penny that she had been able to squirrel away” for the past two months. Clearly, she is preparing for something but as to what, we have no idea. They will be here soon – Marianne, Hayley, and Jane. Four ladies,…

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  • Drift Stumble Fall - M. Jonathan Lee - Book Cover
    Contemporary

    Drift Stumble Fall – M. Jonathan Lee

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    Two neighbours across the street – each trapped in their own world. Each craving for the other’s life – envying the other judging by appearances. One’s shocking truth is revealed to us, the reader. The other’s less shocking but still far-reaching plans… Drift Stumble Fall, the new atmospheric, dark, and captivating novel by M. Jonathan Lee. “There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” – Aldous Huxley Introduction  “‘I love you,’ she says. Sometimes, I feel she does.” All he craves for is “a new beginning.” This is it – this is the gorge between Richard Brown’s daily life and inner thoughts.…

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  • All the Colours in between - Eva Jordan - Book Cover
    Women's Fiction

    All The Colours In Between – Eva Jordan

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    Lizzie, a mother, author, lover of her partner and life takes us with her on an emotive and enticing trip through her fascinating life filled with love and laughter, sadness and grief, and friendship and betrayal – all the colours in between black and white! Introduction  Lizzie should feel proud that she has successfully weathered the storms of time, the emotions she went through each have their own colour such as ‘cranberry passion’ for first love, the ‘iridescent pink flush‘ of desire and the colour of ‘sulphur‘ for times of intense pain. So why should she not feel an abundant joy with its bright colours but, instead, sees everything fade…

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  • The Golden Age of Charli RSVP - Jena. C. Henry - Book Cover
    Romance

    The Golden Age of Charli: RSVP – Jena C. Henry

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    When Charli’s husband Pud retires, she imagines their new life, enjoying an abundance of free time together, him home with her during the day but Pud has only one thing in mind – GOLF!  Introduction  Charli looks forward to her husband Pud’s retirement. She loves being a housewife and has found fulfilment in raising their two boys August and Zimmer (from A to Z!) but now she is alone all day this is just what she needs. Alas, it turns out that Pud has other ideas: his dedication to golf, his favourite hobby, resembles an addiction. It is treated exactly as his former work ethos. All day almost every day…

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    Spotlight & Events

    Cover Reveal | Fifty Years of Fear – Ross Greenwood

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    Ross Greenwood’s next thriller FIFTY YEARS OF FEAR is a riveting read about embracing life, a cruel fate and a history that is too dark for words…  *COVER REVEAL* FIFTY YEARS OF FEAR ROSS GREENWOOD  @greenwoodross Introduction We are proud to present you the terrific cover for Ross Greenwood’s FIFTY YEARS OF FEAR – an atmospheric and gripping novel. Those who have read books by Ross Greenwood know, he can expertly weave a chilling story around identifiable characters and their choices and challenges in life. I cannot wait to start reading FIFTY YEARS OF FEAR – Stay tuned for the Blog Tour starting on Publication Day October 1st! The Book…

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    Detective, Mystery & Thriller

    Coffin Maker – Mark L. Fowler

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    Coffin Maker is an intriguing philosophical dark novel. A tale of good and evil, of action against introspection, of life on Earth and the Kingdom of Death   Introduction “I love them I hate them” To the Coffin Maker, these perfectly balanced words are the ultimate paradox and show how he regards human life and death on Earth. Now the Coffin Maker feels worthy of the honorary title ‘Poet of Death’. Who is this Coffin Maker – a mere skeleton body of bones barely held together by parchment skin? What he does is clear enough but is he human or an Angel of Death? The plotline on Earth is entwined with…

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  • There is Always More to Say - Lynda Young Spyro - Book Cover
    Contemporary

    There is Always More to Say – Lynda Young Spiro

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    Each chapter begins and ends with a lovely quotation. It is written in the style of a diary but could also very well be love letters to a lifelong lover. Introduction Is it a diary or are the entries love letters to a first lover, the one with such an impact on her that she just cannot forget him? Who is the 55-year old writer and what are her secrets, apart from the lover who conquered her heart thirty years ago? He went back to the States to marry and have children, she stayed in London and also got married – had her two children at about the same time as…

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  • Chasing Ghosts - Kamila Zahno - Book Cover
    Non-Fiction

    Chasing Ghosts – Kamila Zahno

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    It is an adventurous life that lies before us and an incredible story Kamila Zahno is telling us in her unique and insightful biography Chasing Ghosts. Introduction A touching and fascinating true story about a woman struggling with her origin, with who she is and where she came from. Kamila Zahno craves the answers necessary for her to feel whole, to accept who she is for the first time in her life, now that she is facing her mortality. Storyline An upper-class Indian woman brought up in England, falls in love with an Englishman. When they settle in Birmingham they become a family of mixed racial backgrounds because of the…

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  • Metaphysical & Visionary

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    Clive always wanted to travel – in death, he makes one final journey during his Eight Days of Reckoning. A beautiful, touching and heartbreaking tale of love Introduction The dedication to Scott Thompson‘s mother,  someone who committed her life to helping others,  says it all – this is a book about coming to terms with your life, about helping others but most of all it is a book of love. We meet Clive Kinsella as he is packing his car for what he believes is going to be the first time ever he will see something of the world. Now is the time to travel, he is retired, his mother no…

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