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  • A Tangled Web of Heart Strings
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    A Tangled Web of Heart Strings
    Peter King

    Lose yourself in this heart-wrenching adult fictional novel centring around Daniel that delves into his early difficult home life, following his journey into old age.


    He and his younger sister Joyce, while living at home with their mum, have to endure a very hostile and abusive relationship with their dad. It is not helped by the fact that he refuses to accept them as his biological children.


    The dad leaves to live with his girlfriend, but when the mum passes, he is back to try and evict Daniel and his sister from the family home and then tries to sell it under their nose.


    While facing a court battle, Daniel’s love life is shredded with broken romances. He gets close to Rachel, but that doesn’t run smoothly due to a baby that turns out not to be his.


    The reader will easily feel sympathy towards Daniel with his feelings stretched to a limit.


    The later years are kinder to him with marriage and children, but again his life is thrown into turmoil with a serious family illness.


    The emotional twists and turns will keep you captivated until the end, perhaps touching on personal experience.

    £3.50
  • Double Vision
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    Double Vision
    Neil Sadler

    A glamorous blonde woman is killed in a hit and run incident on Wickham Terrace, Brisbane. She is a peace activist and a former participant at a Headcases wellness retreat.


    In this third book in the Garfield series, Detective Senior Sergeant Ward of the Brisbane CIB is faced with a complicated investigation to uncover first who the intended victim was and then to identify and apprehend the killer.


    There are numerous suspects in respect of the possible intended victims. Also, a shady extreme right-wing organisation has been making threats against the victim and other peace activists. Were the killer’s motives personal or political?


    DSS Ward’s investigation is plagued by lies and deception. Nothing is as it seems as violence escalates resulting in further injury and death.


    Garfield is again at the centre of the action as he tries to cover up another affair and the fact that he has been intimate with both possible intended victims.


    Eventually the truth emerges, and it appears that Garfield and the other possible intended victim remain at risk.


    There is a dramatic conclusion at a townhouse in Dobson Street, Ascot.


    Finally, Garfield must decide where his loyalties lie and what he might be prepared to forgive.

    £3.50
  • The Sulking House
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    The Sulking House
    Lance Hattatt

    Betrayal, adultery, arrogance, rape and seduction rip apart lives of contentment and fulfilment in a quiet corner of Middle England.


    When businessman Hugh Steadman rekindles an adulterous relationship, he sets in train a series of events which will not only threaten his marriage but will also lead the way to his eventual downfall and destruction. Florence, Hugh’s intellectual wife, is immersed in writing about the C18 world of consuls and courtiers. Alexander, his social-worker son, is despairing of his gay partner, Gary, caught up in a life of crime. For the Steadmans, Hugh’s actions become an unstoppable force for change.


    Against a backdrop of a house in the country, a garden open to the public, and a Midsummer Madness party, The Sulking House develops the themes of temptation, human frailty and failure. It also points the way towards resilience, resolve and the nature of forgiveness.

    £4.99
  • The Promise and O Holy Night
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    The Promise and O Holy Night
    Elizabeth Bray

    THE PROMISE: Women’s Fiction.


    Ever since childhood, Tiffany Summers has dreamed of escaping the big city and living in a country cottage, pursuing a career as an award-winning author. When she inherits a cottage in Bowral, in the New South Wales Hinterland, she knows her time has come. She resigns from her busy job in Sydney, renovates the cottage, and begins to move in. Finally, she will have solitude, peace and quiet, and the opportunity to write her novels. Or will she? There are big surprises waiting up ahead of Tiffany. Can she embrace the unexpected challenges in her new life and still live the dream?


    O HOLY NIGHT: Women’s Fiction.


    Vera is a middle-aged woman who owns a café in the CBD of a busy Queensland city. Ever since her husband died, she has run the café alone and managed it well. She expects this year to be like any others, but as the year unfolds, Vera is prompted to turn over a new leaf. By the end of the year, she will be a different person, and her life will change in ways she never expected. Come and share Vera’s journey. It’s a journey worth taking.

    £4.99
  • Where Did the Vice President of the United States Go?
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    Where Did the Vice President of the United States Go?
    Rafael Webb Berman

    A new Republican president comes to power in America and declares that he will do twice over everything that Donald Trump did. As his administration hardens its stance against the transgender community, a full-scale culture war erupts between America and Europe, culminating in a mass demonstration of millions in Amsterdam.


    The vice president is sent to the Netherlands in an attempt to broker a compromise, but once there, he vanishes from the watchful eyes of the U.S. Secret Service.


    In a breathless political drama, the vice president’s secret summer romance is revealed: a tender, unexpected love affair with a long-haired Dutch schoolteacher whose sister has undergone gender transition. As American Secret Service agents struggle to protect the vice president under impossible conditions, the personal and the political collide.


    Can the love story dubbed by the global media as the “Romeo and Juliet of the 21st century” overcome hatred, fear, and the forces determined to tear it apart?

    £4.99
  • Harriet's World
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    Harriet's World
    Celia Andrews

    Harriet, recently returned to an English village after a life spent with her widowed clergyman father in cities across Europe, where he has served in British embassies, quickly becomes involved in local life. She makes friends, including a scatty girl who is under her mother’s thumb, attends all the classiest social events and attracts many admirers. Life for her seems to have settled down, but then a local feud involving her father, the village church where he is the vicar, and several parishioners leads the two to return to Europe and more official postings for her father and friendship and romance for Harriet. Then a traumatic event changes her life dramatically.


    Celia Andrews has based the novel on Plan of a Novel, a publication of notes left by Jane Austen by Oxford University Press in their book Minor Works.

    £3.50
  • Fear Me!
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    Fear Me!
    Matt Rocks

    Over the melee, I could hear my own blood roaring in my ears and my breathing thundering and bellowing in my chest. My heart was filled with horror and despair. Cold sweat was running down my body, drenching my shorts and shirt, as I panicked and fought with myself, forcing myself to continue. Tears were streaming down my face, dripping unheeded off my chin, falling onto Paddy’s upturned face, filling his staring, pale eyes. Desperation filled my entire body as I repeated the same moves over and over, my legs and back shaking and quaking with fatigue, unused to the unusual position. All around me, people pushed and shoved, shouting advice at me, screaming at me to keep going. I glimpsed George in the crowd, his phone pressed to his ear, shouting incoherently into it.


    I kept shoving down into poor Paddy’s chest, breathing for him. Deep down, I knew there would be no response, but I refused to give up on him, refused to let him go. There was a wild, animal-like roaring scream deafening me, and my ears filled with a thundering, drumming sound, like standing under the Niagara Falls.


    Then, I could do no more.

    £4.99
  • The Secret of Greasy Jack
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    The Secret of Greasy Jack
    Terry Richardson

    The town of Billaroo was devoid of a railway: or was it?


    A group of bored schoolchildren stumble upon evidence of an ancient rail line passing through the town. They explore the countryside and find many more signs that some form of railway once existed. They consult the oldest residents of their town and are continuously told no such railway ever existed.


    One of the girls, who is the daughter of the town’s doctor, recalls that the well-known but constantly avoided local tramp, “Greasy Jack”, is older than the other long-time residents. Reluctantly the group decided to visit the tramp in his filthy shack out behind the town cemetery. After winning his trust, the group are told of a sad, tragic tale which confirms their suspicions and also horrifies them.


    Meanwhile, the trio of boys are engaged in an ongoing feud with some older boys. When two of them are bashed by the thugs, Greasy Jack intervenes, saving them from a more severe beating. The cowardly thugs swear retribution, and tragedy strikes. This triggers the decision by the group of teenagers to call a meeting of their parents and the police to tell all, not only about the mysterious railway but also the truth about Greasy Jack.

    £4.99
  • Blackwood Manor – The Fallen
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    Blackwood Manor – The Fallen
    D. L. Rathbone

    The villagers think Blackwood Manor is haunted. They’re not far off.


    Isaac has been inside for decades. Alone. He’s neither dead nor alive—just stuck. Watching the seasons change. Waiting for nothing.


    Then Elizabeth shows up. She’s running from something. She doesn’t belong there. She doesn’t know what she’s walked into.


    She can’t see him. But she hears his music at night. She feels something watching. And slowly, without meaning to, she starts to care about whatever it is that lives in the dark.


    Some things aren’t meant to be disturbed. Some are just waiting to be found.

    £4.99
  • Social Cafe Angels
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    Social Cafe Angels
    Craig Minto

    Social Cafe Angels is a compassionate and funny story of the times we now live in.

     

    Set in the small industrial northern town of Steelsbridge, the characters are ones we can all find empathy with.

     

    Sarah Saintly, as coordinator, drives the new Social Cafe. With the support of the church and her dedicated volunteers, the initiative slowly grows and becomes vital to the community.

     

    Membership of the cafe increases, and so does the volunteer intake.

     

    When Rihanna Hope takes on the coordinator role from Sally, the Social Cafe goes from strength to strength.

     

    After a decade the cafe has become vital in helping those of all ages who are isolated, physically and mentally poor and in need of support.

     

    By 2026, Steelsbridge Social Cafe celebrates with distinguished guests. A story of hope, inspiration and the resilience of community spirit.

    £3.50
  • Quantum Lives
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    Quantum Lives
    H.F. Patel

    Who has never wondered, ‘What if I’d dared?’


    At 18, Anahita dreams of passion and independence, of love tinged just with the right amount of heartache to make it even more piquant, of living her life fully and on her own terms.


    But will life be a stronger current bending her to its will? Is heartache worth the piquancy? Do independence and limitless possibilities come with a price too high to pay?


    Quantum Lives is the journey of a young woman. A woman who learns that resilience is power and love is the force that pushes us forward.


    Quantum Lives is the story of me. And of You.


    This is a little gem of a book. I found myself completely absorbed in it. It is a lovely read and deeply impactful.

    – Preetha Leela Chockalingam, author of A Chera Adventure


    Vulnerable and unsettling, yet undeniably feel-good.

    – Olivier Deparis, author

    £4.99
  • The Five Chapters of Ravi Vilo
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    The Five Chapters of Ravi Vilo
    Tapy Lekaw

    Ravi Vilo; distinguished painter, art critic, analyst and teacher, recognised that his formative years, the 1920s, fell into a sequential series of phases that he referred to as the ‘Chapters’ of his life’s ideas, ambitions and relationships.Each was played out on a different stage, starting in Bombay, where he received his schooling and initial art education. He then travelled to England by ship through the Suez Canal, on which he made a friendship that coloured his social and working relationships throughout the rest of his life. In London he received a graduate degree in painting, culminating in his masterpiece, which placed him at the forefront of Modern Art in Britain.At the breakup of the group of friends with whom he lived with his partner, he left Europe for South America, where they settled in Popayán, Colombia, conducting a programme of community culinary, health, and artistic development that drew international attention, taking him to Paris in the early 1930s.

    £4.99

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