Behind the bookshop walls
The Lost And Found Bookshop
Author: Susan Wiggs Publisher: William Morrow
Natalie has big plans for the charming bookshop in San Francisco that she inherited from her mother, but she isn’t able to overlook the fact that they are strapped for cash. At the same time, she also becomes caretaker to her grandfather who is on a steady decline. Natalie decides to sell the bookshop so she can pay to have him in an assisted living facility. But grandpa refuses to budge and insists that renovation works are in order instead. In between contractors, reading and connecting with people, Natalie realises that there are truths hidden not only within the pages of a book, but in the walls of this bookshop that just keeps giving.
What You Wish For
Author: Katherine Center Publisher: St Martin’s Press
Once upon a time, Samantha was someone else. But she has left the past behind her and has now found a fulfilling career as a school librarian. She loves her job, the students and the school. Life couldn’t be better - until Duncan turns up. Duncan knows the old her, but the thing is, she knows the old Duncan too. And the old Duncan is nothing like the new Duncan, who is now principal of the school and a man who does not tolerate rule-breaking.
Playing Nice
Author: J.P. Delaney Publisher: Ballantine Books
Is this every parent’s worst nightmare? Pete opens his door one fine morning to Miles, a man he has never spoken to before, telling him that their sons were switched at birth. How do you give up someone you thought was family? Eager to keep everyone close, the respective families decide that they would be one big unconventional family. But a plan to sue the hospital raises some questions about what really happened on the night the children were swapped. Was it simply an oversight of a hospital that was understaffed, or is there something more sinister at play here?
Parakeet
Author: Marie Helene-bertino Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Here is a woman about to walk down the aisle and get married to the man of her dreams, but her grandmother is in her way. More startlingly however, is that her grandmother has died but has returned in the form of a parakeet. And this parakeet is rather persistent in getting her way. Grandma doesn’t want her to get married. Instead, she sends this woman on a search for her brother and a surreal journey of a lifetime.
The Pull Of The Stars
Author: Emma Donoghue Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
It is 1918 and Ireland is ravaged by war and disease. In a hospital in the city centre, Julia doesn’t have anyone to cover her shift. She needs sleep, but the expectant mothers who are all sick with this new flu going around, need her more. Over the course of three days in this small ward, Julia meets two women who change the course of her life, and she theirs. As the pandemic sweeps across the country and patients succumb to this mysterious disease, the women in this ward must lean on each other to face their fear of the unknown.