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|author= S V Berlin

|title= The Favourite

|rating= 4.5

|genre= General Fiction

|summary=Siblings Edward and Isobel Vernon haven't spoken in years and live on opposite sides of the Atlantic. When their mother Mary dies unexpectedly, they are thrown together to sort through the family home. With Edward's diffident but devoted girlfriend, Julie, making an awkward threesome, each stumbles through the practicalities of funeral preparation and house clearing, trying to make sense of their emotions and their feelings toward one another. Isobel makes a disturbing discovery and her fateful decision has consequences for all of them, challenging their beliefs about the past, hopes for the future and understanding of Mary's role in keeping them at once apart and together.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993563384</amazonuk>

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|author=Julia Claiborne Johnson

|summary=Two collected stories from Mudpuddle Farm series – ''Nowt to Worry About'' and ''Tickety-Boo''. How will the animals react when the sky goes strange and horrifying noises abound? Changes are afoot that could mark the end of Mudpuddle farm; or is it just a new beginning?

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008241988</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Stephan Santiago~~

~~|title=Returning Home~~

~~|rating=3.5~~

~~|genre=Spirituality and Religion~~

|summary=[[:Category:Stephan Santiago|Stephan Santiago]] has experienced life in a way that's led him to believe we're all on a soul journey back home – that place we inhabited before we were born. This book is a guide as to how we can optimise this journey for ourselves, those around us and our children.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1504305272</amazonuk>~~

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~~|author=Julia Blackburn~~

~~|title=Threads: The Delicate Life of John Craske~~

~~|rating=4.5~~

~~|genre=Biography~~

|summary=John Craske was a fisherman, from a family of fishermen, who became too ill to go to sea. He was born in Sheringham on the north Norfolk coast in 1881 and would eventually die in the Norwich hospital in 1943 after a life which could have been defined by ill health. There were various explanations for what ailed him, what caused him to sink into a stupour, sometimes for years at a time and he was on occasions described as 'an imbecile'. But John had a natural artistic talent, albeit that his work had to be done on the available surfaces in his home. Chair seats, window sills, the backs of doors all carried his wonderful pictures of the sea. Then he moved on to embroidery, producing wonderful pictures of the Norfolk coast - and, most famously, of the evacuation at Dunkirk.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099582198</amazonuk>~~

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