Florence 1943. Two sisters Isabella & Caterina Cammaccio find themselves surrounded by terror & death; & with Italy trapped under the heel of a brutal Nazi occupation bands of Partisans rise up. Soon Isabella & Caterina will test their wits & deepest beliefs as never before. As the winter grinds on they will be forced to make the most important decisions of their lives. Their choices will reverberate for decades. In the present day Alessandro Pallioti a senior policeman agrees to oversee a murder investigation after it emerges the victim was once a Partisan hero. When the case begins to unravel Pallioti finds himself working to uncover a crime lost in the twilight of war the consequences of which are as deadly today as they were over sixty years ago. ' Grindle vividly evokes Florence as few tourists see it.. . Here is the perfect summer holiday read' Literary Review ' Grindle saves her best story-weaving to the thrilling denouement that creates a surprise as unexpected & delicious as the finest Florentine cuisine' Daily Express ...

The Village" by Nikita Lalwani the prize-winning author of " Gifted" is a disturbing & utterly gripping modern morality tale set in contemporary India & will appeal to readers of Kiran Desai's " The Inheritance of Loss" & Jhumpa Lahiri's " The Namesake". Ray a young British-Asian woman arrives in the afternoon heat of a small village in India. She has come to live there for several months to make a documentary about the place. For this is no ordinary Indian village
- the women collecting water at the well the men chopping wood in the early morning light have all been found guilty of murder. The village is an open prison. Ray is accompanied by two British colleagues & as the days pass they begin to get closer to the lives of the inhabitants of the village. & then it feels too close. As the British visitors become desperate for a story the distinction between innocence & guilt between good intentions & horrifying results becomes horribly blurred. Set in a village modelled on a real-life open prison in India " The Village" is a gripping story about manipulation & personal morality about how truly frail our moral judgement can be. Nikita Lalwani has written a dazzling heartfelt & disturbing novel which delivers on all the promise of her first. "A sparkling funny & poignant study of a young maths prodigy struggling with her gift & a difficult family". (Gerard Woodward " Books of the Year" (" Gifted") " Observer). Nikita Lalwani was born in Rajasthan & raised in Cardiff. Her first novel " Gifted" was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize & shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award & won the Desmond Elliott Prize. She lives in London."
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The Grey House was the answer to everything in Alice Jordan's life
- her perfect life. The beautiful eighteenth-century building
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' People in Fairacre simply won't stand for their children being uprooted & carted away in buses like so many
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This is a story of survival set in a small fishing village near Bombay. Lila & Hari aged 13 & 12 struggle to keep the family including two young sisters going when their mother is ill & their father usually the worse for drink. When Hari goes to Bombay to find work Lila seems to be responsible for everything. Although the book paints a picture of extreme poverty it demonstrates the strength of the family even in the most extreme circumstances & offers a powerful picture of another culture. ...

When Harry Dickenson arrives in Turnham Malpas the warm welcome he receives convinces him to stay. Handsome & charming Harry quickly earns his place in rural life. But despite his outward friendliness Harry is a troubled man hiding memories of a tragic past from which he is desperate to escape. Just as Harry finds some measure of peace he encounters the one woman in the village likely to turn any man's head. Soon Harry is caught in an obsessive love that threatens to ruin everything that he has accomplished
- & reveal his shocking secret to all. But Harry isn't the only man in the village to fall head-over-heels. Paddy Cleary the shy gardener is smitten. But will Paddy find the confidence to reveal his true feelings? & will the young lady return his affections? The villagers must wait & watch hoping the burgeoning friendship will lead to something more...
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With the Rector Peter Harris & his family back from Africa the villagers of Turnham Malpas heave huge sighs of relief
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A mysterious visitor has arrived in Turnham Malpas. What can Titus Bellamy want? Is it true the villagers ask each other that he has discovered a medieval charter which grants the right to hold a market on their picturesque village green? & if it is true can he be stopped? Meanwhile after twenty-five years the marriage of Liz & Neville Neal is on the rocks. Or so the unhappy Liz thinks. But Neville to celebrate their silver wedding anniversary has decided to throw a lavish party. The anniversary party & the market on the green mark both the beginning & end of two quite different relationships. But is it really all the fault of Titus Bellamy? The village is divided
- before a spate of burglaries on market day adds fuel to the hot debate & someone unexpected decides to take matters into her own hands...
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Rivalries flare & scandal abounds in Rebecca Shaws sparkling tale of love loyalty & village life. The villagers of Turnham Malpas are in for a shock. With Sir Ralph now dead his fortune & title go to a newcomer. It swiftly becomes clear that Johnny Templeton could not be more different to his well-loved predecessor. Johnny soon finds himself in conflict with long-standing members of Turnham Malpas
- particularly Craddock Fitch who is determined to obstruct Johnnys plan to buy back the Templeton estate. Meanwhile there are two other villagers in crises but theirs is a much more private issue. Marcus & Alice March have longed for a child for years. But when Alice finally becomes pregnant there are those in the village who harbour doubts about the childs progeny knowing how close Alice has grown to Johnny. As gossip begins to circulate the village Alice must make the most difficult of decisions
- whether to follow her heart or her morals...

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Rivalries flare & scandal abounds in Rebecca Shaw's sparkling tale of love loyalty & village life. The villagers of Turnham Malpas are in for a shock. With Sir Ralph now dead his fortune & title go to a newcomer. It swiftly becomes clear that Johnny Templeton could not be more different to his well-loved predecessor. Johnny soon finds himself in conflict with long-standing members of Turnham Malpas
- particularly Craddock Fitch who is determined to obstruct Johnny's plan to buy back the Templeton estate. Meanwhile there are two other villagers in crises but theirs is a much more private issue. Marcus & Alice March have longed for a child for years. But when Alice finally becomes pregnant there are those in the village who harbour doubts about the child's progeny knowing how close Alice has grown to Johnny. As gossip begins to circulate the village Alice must make the most difficult of decisions
- whether to follow her heart or her morals...

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