Just My Luck by Adele Parks Published by Harper Collins 2020 If you liked Tom Wolfe’s ‘Bonfire of the Vanities’, you’ll enjoy ‘Just my Luck’, a story of jealousy, social class, greed...

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            Life in Pieces by Dawn O’Porter Published by HarperCollins, 2020 Firstly, apologies for starting 2021 by reminding you of our year of living with the pandemic....

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              Away with the Penguins by Hazel Prior Published by Black Swan, 2020 Mrs McCreedy (note: she is definitely not to be called Veronica) lives alone in...

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The Adventures of Paddington: The Missing Marmalade Sandwich  Published by Harper Collins, 2020 Children’s books are unfamiliar territory for me, but I do love a lift-the-flap-book! I’m not keen on marmalade but...

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Why Mummy’s Sloshed by Gill Sims Published by Harper Collins, 2020 The fifth in this very popular series and, from the title, I thought this newly released book would make a great...

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    The Beginner’s Goodbye by Anne Tyler  Published by Penguin (Random House)   Not a new book, in fact I mentioned it in my round up back in 2013, but the...

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      Nevada Noir by David Arrowsmith  A trilogy of short stories Published 2020 Aptly described on the cover as ‘dark and brooding’, the three complex stories are set in Nevada....

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Emma (A modern retelling) by Alexander McCall Smith Published by The Borough Press, 2014 Not a newly published book but I was prompted to read it following recent film and tv adaptions...

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Perdition’s Child by Anne Coates Published by Urbane Publications, February 2020 Set in South east London but with a link to Cornwall: a murder takes place in one of the libraries funded by a...

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    The Other Girl by CD Major Published by Thomas & Mercer, 2020 It’s 1942 in New Zealand and 20 year old Edith has been locked in Seacliff Lunatic Asylum for...

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