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Author: Cathryn Hein ISBN: 978-1-921518-69-0 RRP: $29.95 Heart of the Valley is the childhood fantasy of every young girl who grew up wanting a pony, until it turns into a nightmare anyway. Rural Romance seems to be the genre of the moment and Cathryn Hein has written a beautiful novel that fits perfectly on the [...]
Author: Nicholas Sparks ISBN: 978-0-7515-4343-8 RRP: $19.99 I know that I have mentioned a few times lately that I really need to come and start writing my reviews early, before I get to the end and have a head full of the ending and can’t remember the feelings leading up to it. For this one [...]
Author: Linda Lael Miller ISBN: 978-192179525-1 RRP: $29.99 The Creed Legacy is the last book in the series starring the Creed Cowboys; again I have come in at the final chapter and it really didn’t matter. This book works just as well as a stand alone volume. Very much a western setting; all cowboys, horses, [...]
Author: Robyn Carr ISBN: 978-192179531-2 RRP: $29.99 Hidden Summit tells the story of something I have long believed; that when you least expect it, when you have stopped looking for it and when you have decided that it is the absolute last thing in the world that you want, that’s when love will sneak up [...]
Author: Bridget Asher ISBN: 978-1742-37-6424 RRP: $27.99 Brokenhearted and mourning the loss of the love of her life, young widow Heidi travels with her obsessive-compulsive son Abbot, and Charlotte, her pessimistic teenage niece, to a small village in Provence in the south of France, where a crumbling stone house passed down through the family has [...]
Author: Katherine Webb ISBN: 978-140-911-2617 RRP: $29.99 A captivating tale of two women’s struggle for identity and freedom, one ultimately futile and one successful! A haunting tale that will touch the very core of you, of a time that not one of us these days could imagine having to live through. The central character in [...]
Author: Daisy Goodwin ISBN: 978-075-534-8077 RRP: $29.99 It’s the late 19th century, in a time when corsets are tight and money makes the world go round. There are bookshelves full of English ladies and gentlemen of the past, but this book features rich American heiresses who travel the globe to marry English aristocrats giving it [...]
Author: Jojo Moyes ISBN: 978-034-096-1636 RRP: $32.99 Jojo Moyes has written a poignant story of love and marriage, not always between the same people, in the 60′s. The first half of the book jumps around quite a bit and you need to pay attention to keep the time line straight. The Prologue takes place in the [...]
Author: Louise Candlish ISBN: 978-184-744-3892 RRP: $32.99 When Ginny and Adam Trustlove arrive in Italy for what is supposed to be two weeks of relaxation in a boathouse on the edge of the beautiful and peaceful Lake Orta, the last thing they are expecting is company. Twenty-four hours later, that company arrives in the form [...]
Author: Belinda Jones ISBN: 978-034-099-4443 RRP: $22.99 Best friends Carmen and Beth are desperate to break free from their mundane lives in dreary London. Carmen has only just escaped a bad relationship and Beth is beginning to realise that any chance of achieving her dream of becoming a famous dancer is fading, fast. So when [...]
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