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In the brief golden years of King Edward VII's reign, Rosie McCosh and her three very different sisters are growing up in an eccentric household in Kent, with their neighbours the Pitt boys on one side and the Pendennis boys on the other. Can s
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End is a 2014 non-fiction book by American surgeon Atul Gawande. The book addresses end-of-life care, hospice care, and also contains Gawande's reflections and personal stories. He suggests that me
Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled.Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life - an emptiness once filled by love. So when Ella reads a
Set over the course of five decades, The Dutch House is a dark fairy tale about two smart people who cannot overcome their past. Despite every outward sign of success, Danny and Maeve are only truly comfortable when they’re together. Throughout
Shortlisted for The British Book Awards 2023 Fiction Book of the Year. ‘O'Farrell paints as evocative a picture of Renaissance Italy as she did Shakespearean England in the former Waterstones Book of the Year Hamnet, as Cosimo de' Medici's thir
The thrilling follow-up to the award-winning Bluebird, Bluebird: Texas Ranger Darren Matthews is on the hunt for a boy who's gone missing - but it's the boy's family of white supremacists who are his real target9-year-old Levi King knew he sho
It is the tale, simply told, of one ordinary middle-aged man - Bill Furlong - who in December 1985, in a small Irish town, slowly grasps the enormity of the local convent's heartless treatment of unmarried mothers and their babies (one instance
Gloucester Book Club’s top 3 books read and discussed in 2023 and voted for by members of book club --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/christina-young31/message
From Stories For Christmas and the festive season - British Library--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/christina-young31/message
Taken from Stories for Christmas and the festive season - British Library Women Writers--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/christina-young31/message
The Pulitzer Prize-winning, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Redhead by the Side of the Road returns with a luminous new novel that paints a joyous and painfully truthful portrait of family life ~ Waterstones--- Send in a voice message: h
The second episode of our Halloween series of short stories from Spooky Ambiguous, ghost stories and poetry fangs and fairy tales, published by Crumps Barn Studios. Suitable for children. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spot
Taken from Spooky Ambiguous - an intriguing collection of short stories and poetry where nothing and no-one is as they seem. With permission from Crumps Barn Studio in The Cotswolds --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.co
When the Nazis march into Paris, Odile stands to lose everything she holds dear, including her beloved Library. Together with her fellow librarians, Odile joins the Resistance with the best weapons she has: books. But when the war finally ends,
“A passionate condemnation of the misogyny Jack the Ripper's victims have been held in for over a century, The Five tells an engrossing group biography of Victorian womanhood, blighted by poverty and powerless against casual and constant abuse”
“Tackling the issue of long-term mental illness with wit and candour, Mason’s remarkable novel takes a rounded, empathetic look at the condition through the experiences of a middle-aged woman who has struggled to find contentment in her adult l
But there she was Sadie Green, in the flesh. And to see her almost made him want to cry. It was as if she were a mathematical proof that had eluded him for many years, but all at once, with fresh, well-rested eyes, the proof had a completely ob
Waterstones book of 2022, British Book Awards author of 2023, debut novelist Bonnie Garmus brings us Lessons in Chemistry. “smart,funny, joyous and powerful featuring an unconventional female scientist with a quiet game plan to change the world
John Williams’s luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in s
A dazzling new novel of friendship, identity and the unknowability of other people – from the international bestselling author of Home Fire, winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction.This year, 1988, anything seems possible for the girls; and fo
A brilliantly moving story of the cost of secrets and the power of hope, Flamingo revolves around two families, an unforgettable summer they spend together and a re-encounter decades later that changes everything. Waterstones--- Send in a v
A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe, Still Life by Sarah Winman, A Town Solace called Solace by Mary Lawson--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/christina-young31/message
“In October 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, an English schoolboy arrives unannounced at his piano teacher’s house. He stands on her doorstep in his drainpipe trousers and sharp-toed winklepickers, twitchy with eroticised terror
A festive tale from ‘Festive Spirits’ written by Kate Atkinson 2019. Read by Christina Young--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/christina-young31/message
A short story taken from a chilling collection of short stories ‘Christmas is Murder’ published by Sphere in 2020--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/christina-young31/message
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