WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE? The question begins to circle her as she hangs in the freezing dark water. The surface is only a few metres above, and she kicks her fins hard. Nothing happens. She is still trapped. Alone. Desi Priest is coming home – but it’s not a joy filled homecoming. Two years ago …
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Shallow Breath, by Sara Foster
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May 202013
Amber Road, by Boyd Anderson
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May 062013
Thunder was beginning to roll across the water. The storm would soon arrive. Victoria Khoo is seventeen, and very sure of her destiny. She will marry Sebastian Boustead and become the mistress of the family mansion, next to her own family’s home in Amber Road. When she learns that Sebastian has arrived back from England …
Chasing the Light, by Jesse Blackadder
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Apr 212013
This was the moment, after her twenty patient years, after her cheerful mothering, after her steadfast support, that he’d remember the adventurous woman he’d married, and the promise he’d made her. She took a deep breath, drawing in air to the bottom of her lungs, and tried to imagine an even deeper cold. ‘I suppose …
Paper Chains, by Nicola Moriarty
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Apr 012013
‘I’m India. You work at the museum, right? Sit.’ She watched as Hannah hesitated briefly and then obediently followed her instructions. ‘I’m Hannah,’ she mumbled. ‘Well, Hannah, have some watermelon. I’ve got too much. I’ll make myself sick if I eat all of this on my own.’ When Hannah didn’t move to pick up a …
Behind the Sun, by Deborah Challinor
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Mar 252013
Producing a tiny compendium, the girl stood, took out a Congreves match and struck it against the attached strip of sandpaper. The flame flared hugely, singeing her hair. Managing to swear roundly and light her pipe at the same time, she drew on it and coughed until her eyes watered. She coughed again, then hoicked …
Man Drought, by Rachael Johns
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Mar 252013
The pub had definitely seen better days, and she knew not everyone would see it how she did when she closed her eyes, but just looking at the old place made her heart feel lighter than it had in years. Two years, five months and four days to be precise. But no more counting. No …
Lost Voices, by Christopher Koch
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Feb 172013
Late in life, I’ve come to the view that everything in out lives is part of a pre-ordained pattern. Unfortunately it’s a pattern to which we’re not given a key. It contains our joys and miseries; our good actions and our crimes; our strivings and defeats. Certain links in this pattern connect the present to …
In Falling Snow, by Mary-Rose MacColl
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Feb 112013
In the beginning, it was the summers I remembered – long warm days under the palest blue skies, the cornflowers and forget-me-nots lining the road through the Lys forest, the buzz of insects going about their work, Violet telling me lies. When Iris receives an invitation to attend a reunion in France, she is determined …
Around the World in Eighty Days, by Jules Verne, illustrated by Robert Ingpen
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Feb 012013
“A true Englishman doesn’t joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager,’ replied Phileas Fogg, solemnly. I will bet twenty thousand pounds against anyone who wishes, that I will make the tour of the world in eighty days or less.’ It’s not often a book so obviously not set in …
Unnatural Habits, by Kerry Greenwood
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Jan 282013
‘No one cares about bad girls!’ Polly burst out indignantly. ‘They make one mistake and they are shut up in the laundry doing hard work. Their babies are adopted out. they are ruined. We ought to have got beyond that. What use is freedom – they told us that they fought that war for freedom …
