Everything is so busy right now so for a moment, take a seat, relax, and hopefully find a book that will keep you hooked from this week's selection #ForTheWeekend. We have a heartwarming contemporary story, a story with an ancient secret at its heart, a book of poetic prose, and an historical fiction novel, for you to discover today. Happy reading! #ForTheWeekend A heartwarming and uplifting read, first up this week is PERFECT ON PAPER by Gillian Harvey. Here's everything you need to know: About This Book It's time to shake things up a little... Clare Bailey's life is perfect. Successful career, loving husband, two kids and a gorgeous townhouse. At least, that's how it looks from the outside. In fact, she's never felt more invisible. Her boss barely remembers her name, her husband is distracted by his new TV job and her daughter has never found her more embarrassing! But when she's given a chance to turn her life upside-down she wonders whether she should risk everything she loves for a life that's more than just 'perfect on paper'...? Buy Links Amazon UK - www.amazon.co.uk Amazon US - www.amazon.com If an old house with a secret past sounds like your kind of book, then look no further than ALDERSLAY by Val Portelli. Here's all of the details: About This Book An old house. A new start. Ancient secrets. When Gina stumbles across the remote, dilapidated mansion she’s convinced it will make the perfect home for when she and her fiancé Paul settle down together. At first he supports the venture, but his frequent absences are a cause for concern, especially when the renovations reveal skeletons from the past. Is local man Steve a prospective business partner or looking for something more? Why are the normally reticent villagers prepared to accept her as one of their own? As more uncanny coincidences link Gina to the gruesome history of the house, she must decide where her future lies, and if she is prepared to pay the final price. Buy Links Amazon UK - www.amazon.co.uk Amazon US - www.amazon.com A book of prose poetry is next up as I shine a spotlight on BEAUTIFUL RAFT by Tina Barry. Here are all of the details: About This Book In 1946, the artist Marc Chagall and his young lover Virginia Haggard moved from New York City to rural High Falls, New York. Local newspapers and magazines made much of Chagall's arrival, but Haggard, the tall, pretty woman in the photos with her daughter Jean McNeil, was given little more than a name. The prose poems and hybrids in Tina Barry’s Beautiful Raft, written in Haggard’s and McNeil’s voices, allow the women to tell their story. Buy Links Amazon UK - www.amazon.co.uk Amazon US - www.amazon.com For readers who enjoy historical and war fiction, last up this week is A HUNDRED YEARS TO ARRAS by Jason Cobley. Here's all the info:
About This Book Robert is twenty-three years old, a farmer’s boy from Somerset, who joins up against his father’s wishes. Robert forms fast friendships with Stanley, who lied about his age to go to war, and Ernest, whose own slippery account betrays a life on the streets. Their friendship is forged through gas attacks, trench warfare, freezing in trenches, hunting rats, and chasing down kidnapped regimental dogs. Their life is one of mud and mayhem but also love and laughs. This is the story of Robert’s journey to Arras and back, his dreams and memories drawing him home. His story is that of the working-class Tommy, the story of thousands of young men who were caught in the collision between old rural values and the relentlessness of a new kind of war. It is a story that connects the past with the present through land, love and blood. Buy Links Amazon UK - www.amazon.co.uk Amazon US - www.amazon.com THAT'S IT FOR THIS WEEKEND, SEE YOU NEXT FRIDAY!
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