Some new fiction titles this week that you will enjoy.
5* Campbell, Karen – This is where I am A Radio 4 book at bedtime –‘So we walked in the freezing night air, my daughter weeping into my neck, and me trying to shelter her inside my own thin coat’. Glasgow. A city of colour and contrast. A place where two worlds collide, and are changed forever when the Scottish Refugee Council assigns Deborah Maxwell to act as Somali refugee Abdi’s new mentor
5* Bellingham, Lynda – Tell me tomorrow -Meredith Lee is one of the most successful women in television. She has a daytime show that has an audience of millions. She seems to have it all. But behind the tirelessly successful facade lies the story of a woman who nearly lost everything. This is the story of a woman who could not keep love in her life
Reynolds, Matthew – The world was all before them -Philip and Sue, in their mid-20s, near the start of their working lives, have moved to Eden Grove, to a two-up-two-down individually designed quality residence in a small town for the circle of a year. Philip is a locum in a nearby GP surgery, and Sue commutes an hour each day to her job in an art gallery. On the surface, their life together is unremarkable, but around them and within them is a kaleidoscope of complex, intersecting worlds. When Philip struggles with his new patients and when Sue decides to curate a new exhibition with a crucial emptiness at its heart, they both find themselves overstepping the boundaries of their professional lives
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Battle, Nick – Billy Fidget’s family fortunes
Beauman, Sally – The visitors
Beckerman, Hannah – The dead wife’s handbook
Cook, Jude – Byron Easy
Cox, Josephine – The runaway woman
Crace, Jim – Harvest
Dapin, Mark – Spirit house
Davidson, Craig – Cataract city
Dawson – The tell-tale heart
Dinsdale, Robert – Gingerbread
Fitzgerald, Penelope– The beginning of spring
Flanery, Patrick – Fallen land
Forester, C S – The ship
Foulds, Adam – In the wolf’s mouth
Glancy, Robert – Terms & conditions
Guinness, Michele– Archbishop
Hill, Katherine – The violet hour
Hodgkinson, Amanda – Spilt milk
Howard, Linda – An independent wife
Levene, Louise – The following girls
Marra, Anthony – A constellation of vital phenomena
Ness, Patrick – The crane wife
O’Malley, Thomas – This magnificent desolation
Parajuly, Prajwal – Land where I flee
Payton, Brian– The wind is not a river
Pearse, Lesley – Survivor
Russell, Karen – Vampires in the lemon grove
Sackville, Amy – Orkney
Smith, Tom Rob–The farm