February's Best Books
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The Paris Library
Janet Skeslien Charles
Awaiting Stock
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Fiction
A stupendously romantic book for fans of The Book Thief.
1939. Odile Souchet has a new job at the American Library in Paris. When war is declared, the library is determined to stay open – but at what price?
LoveMyRead Review
This novel is sure to become a classic of its genre. Boundless in its compassion, it is a story of heroism, love, friendship and family. It’s a book to make your heart sing and your soul soar.
Available from: 4th February 2021
Light Perpetual
Francis Spufford
Fiction
A tender, inventive novel about lives that might have been lived.
November 1944. A German rocket strikes London, and five young lives are atomised in an instant. But what if time were altered by a second and those lives carried on?
LoveMyRead Review
Thrilling, moving and quite simply one of the best pieces of writing you might ever read. Literature in a class of its own.
Available from: 4th February 2021
The Long, Long Afternoon
Inga Vesper
Fiction
A deeply atmospheric debut novel from the cracked heart of the American Dream.
1959, Sunnylakes, California: a housewife goes missing, leaving nothing but two terrified children and a bloodstain on the kitchen floor.
LoveMyRead Review
Think Desperate Housewives with a bit of a gothic murder mystery thrown in. A gripping tale of the darkness lurking behind trimmed lawns and picket fences, set against a backdrop of the burgeoning civil and women’s rights movements.
Available from: 4th February 2021
Open Water
Caleb Azumah Nelson
Fiction
Meet the new Normal People and the book everyone will be talking about in 2021.
Eyes meet at a bar. But they’re just friends, right?
LoveMyRead Review
This tinglingly-good book gives a voice to the young people of today – what they have to say is moving, urgent and important.
Available from: 4th February 2021
A Town Called Solace
Mary Lawson
Awaiting Stock
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Fiction
A darkly funny, circling, and absorbing book about separate fates coming together.
Ontario. A sister is missing, a new neighbour has moved in and a woman lies dying in hospital. How could they have known that coming together might unearth a crime committed thirty years ago?
LoveMyRead Review
This is one of those quiet dramas that is completely gripping, horrifying and heart-breaking. It’s written with such confidence and skill, it might as well be an unearthed classic.
Available from: 18th February 2021
Grown Ups
Marian Keyes
Special Pick
The bestselling book from 2020 is now available in paperback.
A perfect family. Until a concussion unzips the lips of ones of its members and its secrets begin spilling out.
LoveMyRead Review
A zesty and sparkling comedy, so relatable it makes us all question just how grown up we really are…
Available from: 6th February 2021
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