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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