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Manchester museum where Daisy works as the night security guard, and Nate does the day shift. For five minutes each day their shifts overlap at the handover. When priceless objects start disappearing and then reappearing, they will have to work together to solve the mystery. From the author of Calling Major Tom. Slips from April.
Angela Barton Magnolia House Choc Lit, 10th, £8.99, PBO, 9781781894590 Rowan and her husband win a stunning, though dilapidated Georgian townhouse in London at auction, and are planning to do it up. But suddenly everything changes and Rowan’s life is turned upside-down... Slips from March.
Stephanie Butland Nobody’s Perfect Zaffre, 19th, £8.99, PBO, 9781838773229 When Daisy was born with Cystic Fibrosis, Kate vowed her daughter would never be defined by the illness. But Kate has started to define herself by the way others see her—single parent, college drop-out—until she meets a new man: Daisy’s new teacher.
Nell Carter A Thing Called Love Welbeck, 5th, £8.99, PBO, 9781787395206 Life has left Jack and Clare battered and bruised, sometimes emotionally, sometimes even physically. When they meet, fate offers them a chance to help each other, if they are brave enough to open their hearts.
Isla Gordon The Wedding Pact Sphere, 19th, £7.99, PBO, 9780751574500 August Anderson needs somewhere to live, and she’s found the perfect place: a beautiful Georgian townhouse. The only catch is the landlord wants to rent it to a stable, married couple... and August is single. Enter Flynn, a handsome, unsuspect- ing stranger. Can he be persuaded to tell a little white lie? Isla Gordon also publishes under the name Lisa Dickenson.
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Sharon Gosling The House
Beneath the Cliffs S&S Adult Fiction, 19th, £8.99, PBO, 9781471198670 Anna moves to Crovie, a tiny fishing village on the Moray Firth, for a fresh start and turns her kitchen into a pop-up lunch club. But not all the locals are pleased. Author Gosling also runs Withnail Books in Penrith. Slips from April.
side by side, believing that they’ll never see each other again. But soon their lives become entangled in ways they never expected. From the author of Dear Emmie Blue.
Rosie Archer I’ll be Seeing You Quercus, 5th, £20.99, HB, 9781529405354 Three women become friends while working as usherettes at the Criterion cinema on the south coast, and share the deprivations of the Second World War.
Alexis Hall Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake Piatkus, 5th, £9.99, PBO, 9780349429939 Rom-com with a bisexual heroine, Rosaline Palmer, who is teetering on the edge of financial disaster when she lands a place on Britain’s most beloved baking show: winning the prize money would give her daughter the life she deserves. From the author of Boyfriend Material.
Amy Lavelle Definitely Fine Orion, 5th, £8.99, PBO, 9781398703636
Début Hannah is just 28 when her mum
dies, and she’s left to navigate her grief and that of her emotionally repressed father and weepy younger sister, all while trying to muddle through life. Hilarious and heartbreaking, says Orion, and début author Lavelle writes from the heart, having lost her own mother in her twenties.
Holly McCulloch The Mix-Up Corgi, 5th, £7.99, PBO, 9780552177269 After her ex-boyfriend saunters into her bakery with his new fiancée, Paige is looking for some no-strings-attached fun. She goes to a party where her friend knows just the man: the one in the black top. Except there are two men in black tops, and Paige picks the wrong one… From the author of Just Friends.
Sue McDonagh Escape to the Art Cafe Choc Lit, 3rd, £8.99, PBO, 9781781894637 Third in the Art Cafe series set on the Welsh coast, where Flora Bexton rocks up after her boyfriend does something awful, finding solace in both the cake and Aussie-Welsh lifeguard Jake Foley. Slips from March.
Jenny Oliver One Lucky Summer HQ, 5th, £8.99, PBO, 9780008297572 A long-abandoned trea- sure hunt in the grounds of Willoughby Manor will help Ruben De Lacy, and his childhood friends Dolly and Olive, understand what happened to their families that summer, all those years ago. BookScan
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Lia Louis Eight Perfect Hours Orion, 19th, £7.99, PBO, 9781398703261 “Achingly romantic” love story that asks whether our lives are down to fate, or the choices we make. When Noelle and Sam’s lives collide one snowy evening, they spend eight perfect hours stuck
Diane Allen A Precious Daughter Macmillan, 19th, £20, HB, 9781529037166 Set between Canada and Liverpool during the 19th century, this follows the fortunes of the Postlethwaite family, who leave England for a new life as gold prospectors in Canada, only to find life there is not as they had been led to believe.
Katie Flynn White Christmas Century, 19th, £20, HB, 9781529135404 Proving the adage that Christmas gets earlier every year: the Christmas standalone from bestseller Flynn tells of Rozalin Sachs, who flees Frankfurt when the Nazis gain power, and travels to England in the hope of starting a new life in Liverpool. BookScan
Emma Hornby Her Wartime Secret Bantam Press, 12th, £18.99, HB, 9781787634688 Bolton, 1940. When her husband James comes home on leave, Janie is shocked to see how trau- matised he is. Determined to keep him safe, she hides him in their new house, but how long can they keep the secret?
Pam Howes The Factory Girls of Lark Lane Sphere, 19th, £6.99, PBO, 9780751557374 Liverpool, 1940. Best friends Alice and Millie are working at Rootes munitions factory as part of the war effort when a terrible explosion leads to a tragic death.
Katie King The Evacuee Blitz HQ, 19th, £7.99, PBO, 9780008257606 Third in the series follows The Evacuee Christmas and The Evacuee Summer. It is now 1940, and after a year away from home, twins Connie and Jessie have settled into their new life in Harrogate. But when the brutal bombings of Bermondsey docks begin, they fear for their parents’ safety. BookScan
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