Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine, thank you very much. She doesn’t like to deviate from routine and remains in the same company, doing the same finance job for eight years. Afterwards, she goes home and waits for the next working day. Every Wednesday evening is a fifteen-minute phone call from Mummy and at the weekend […]
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To celebrate Libraries Week, local contemporary fiction writer, Jackie Watson, has gone back to the very place that inspired her love for writing – the library. Jackie Watson was motivated to write the Greece-based trilogy after a recurring dream and explains: “As a kid, I loved our weekly library trip where I’d burst through the
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Is it possible to escape the crowds and find wide open spaces to enjoy during the summer school holidays? You might be surprised. Or maybe you already know about these places, hiding in plain sight. In the past I went camping as a kid. It was the only way to afford a two-week family holiday
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Alison is an ambitious barrister. She’s worked tirelessly and sacrificed plenty over the years. To attain her goal. It’s the one thing she’s been working towards her whole legal career – to defend a murder case. To represent Madeleine, a well-heeled, immaculately presented woman who freely admits to repeatedly stabbing her husband to death with
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A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman is a thoroughly charming and incredibly touching novel. Ove has nothing to live for. The woman who filled his life with love and meaning is gone. “People said Ove saw the world in back and white. But she was colour. All the colour he had.” The result is
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Online book purchasing might have rocketed in recent years but some would say nothing beats browsing in a real bookshop. There are a myriad of quirky, cute and welcoming options in the UK, from waterside Hillbillies, Gairloch to The Edge of the World, Penzance. In North-East England is the award-winning Forum Books with its exceptionally
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Newcastle-born writer, Jackie Watson, has partnered with award-winning Wigwam Studios for her first women’s contemporary fiction novel. Apokeri Bay is the first part of a trilogy set in Lefkada, Greece and follows a feisty young Geordie woman who arrives in a quaint seaside village full of secrets. Wigwam Studios (winner of the 2022 Creative StartUp
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