Fiction

The Perfect Christmas Village

Bella Osborne
The Perfect Christmas Village
Paperback

Modern Fiction Book of the Month – November 2023

This novel takes us back to one of the most harrowing accidents in the history of Wales, but also shows us what people can do when working together. Wales, October 1966. William Lavery is having the night of his life at his first black-tie do. But, as the evening unfolds, news hits of a landslide at a coal mine. It has buried a school: Aberfan. William decides he must act, so he stands and volunteers to attend. It will be his first job as an embalmer, and it will be one he never forgets. His work that night will force him to think about the little boy he was, and the losses he has worked so hard to forget.

A Terrible Kindness

Jo Browning Wroe
A Terrible Kindness
Paperback

Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart
Paperback

Falling Hard for the Royal Guard

Megan Clawson
Falling Hard for the Royal Guard
Paperback

A Green Equinox

Elizabeth Mavor
A Green Equinox
Paperback

Modern Fiction Book of the Month – October 2023

Darwin is a down-on-his-luck gravedigger, newly arrived in the Trinidadian city of Port Angeles to seek his fortune, young and beautiful and lost. Estranged from his mother and the Rastafari faith she taught him, he is convinced that the father he never met may be waiting for him somewhere amid these bustling streets. Meanwhile in an old house on a hill, where the city meets the rainforest, Yejide’s mother is dying. And she is leaving behind a legacy that now passes to Yejide: the power to talk to the dead.  

When We Were Birds

Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
When We Were Birds
Paperback

Her Fixer-Upper

Emily Kerr
Her Fixer-Upper
Paperback

Modern Fiction Book of the Month – September 2023

The encounter between 87-year-old Kent coast resident Edie, who is in the early stages of dementia, and Jonah, a traumatised Malawian migrant hiding in her barn. An unlikely companionship that helps them make sense of their worlds even as they struggle to understand each other.
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