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Adult Lending: Suggested Reading

Suggested Reading

Angels in Disguise by Victoria Mary Clarke

The author is 40 years old, broke and just split from her partner. In desperation she turns to her guardian angel for help and through their conversations manages to get her life back on track. An entertaining self-help book. 

Tea on the Blue Sofa by Natasha IllumBerg

This book introduces us to an extraordinary and distinctive new voice. The story of a passionate love affair set  against a gorgeous east African backdrop. This slim volume is a heartbreaking true account of love and the ways we cope when it is taken from us.

Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier

Flames and funerals, circus feats and seduction, Chevalier’s novel sparkles with drama as Georgian London is vividly recreated for the reader. The young Jem Kalloway is befriended by a streetwise Maggie Butterfield and their friendship takes some surprising twists when they become entangled in the life of their neighbour, William Blake, the poet.

A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg

Oswald T. Campbell is given only months to live  and he moves to Lost River in Alabama. The residents are friendly if a little eccentric and prone to fueds.Flagg takes us on an emotional roller coaster ride through their lives culminating in the magic of a Christmas story.

In Distant Fields by Charlotte Bingham

 Kitty and Perita spend an idyllic summer by the sea, staying at Bauders Castel but no sooner is the summer over than war is declared. The young men cannot wait to volunteer while the girls go on nursing courses. The castle becomes a convalescent home and when the wounded start arriving from the Front the harsh reality of war becomes clear to all

The Devil's Disciple by Glenn Meade

Kate Moran's fiance is killed the day before he is due to marry, by Constantine Gamal, otherwise known as the Devil's disciple, a serial killer obsessed with ritual killings and black magic.Moran tracks Gamel down and brings him to trial. A terrifying tale of obsession and revengs that reads at a fast, breathtaking pace.