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Holiday Reads
Is there any better way to relax on holiday than to lounge poolside with a pager turner?
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CHRISTMAS SHOPAHOLIC SILVER JOSEPHINES GARDEN
Sophie Kinsella Stephanie Parkyn
Chris Hammer
Fiction Thriller Non-Fiction
Becky Brandon adores Christmas. It’s always France 1794: In the aftermath of the end of
the same - Mum and Dad hosting, carols playing, For half a lifetime, journalist Martin Scarsden the French Revolution, Rose de Beauharnais
has run from his past. But now there is no
Mum pretending she made the Christmas stumbles from prison on the day she is to be
pudding, and the next door neighbours coming escaping. He vowed never to return to his guillotined. Within a decade, she’ll transform into
hometown, Port Silver, and it’s traumatic
round for sherry in their terrible festive jumpers. memories.But now his new partner, Mandy the scandalous socialite who marries Napoleon
But this year looks set to be different. Unable Bonaparte, become Empress Josephine of
to resist the draw of craft beer and smashed Blonde, has inherited an old house in the France and build a garden of wonders with
seaside town and Martin knows their chance
avocado, Becky’s parents are moving to ultra plants and animals she gathers from across the
trendy Shoreditch and have asked Becky if of a new life together won’t come again.Martin globe. But she must give Bonaparte an heir or
arrives to find his best friend from school days
she’ll host Christmas this year. What could has been brutally murdered, and Mandy is the she risks losing everything.
possibly go wrong? A brilliant laugh-out-loud Two different women from very different spheres
festive novel. chief suspect. Martin goes searching for the are tied to the fate of Josephine - Marthe
killer and finds the past waiting for him. Desfriches and Anne Serreaux. Their lives
An enthralling and propulsive thriller from are put at risk as they each face confronting
the acclaimed and best selling author of obstacles in their relationships and in their desire
Scrublands. to become mothers.
A richly imagined historical novel about
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