Joanna Quinn

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

California

A Novel

Cristabel Seagrave has always wanted her life to be a story, but there are no girls in the books in her dusty family library. For an unwanted orphan who grows into an unmarriageable young woman, there is no place at all for her in a traditional English manor. But from the day that a whale washes up on the beach at the Chilcombe estate in Dorset, and twelve-year-old Cristabel plants her flag and claims it as her own, she is determined to do things differently.

With her step-parents blithely distracted by their endless party guests, Cristabel and her siblings, Flossie and Digby, scratch together an education from the plays they read in their freezing attic, drunken conversations eavesdropped through oak-panelled doors, and the esoteric lessons of Maudie their maid.

But as the children grow to adulthood and war approaches, jolting their lives on to very different tracks, it becomes clear that the roles they are expected to play are no longer those they want. As they find themselves drawn into the conflict, they must each find a way to write their own story...

The Whalebone Theatre

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Jan Carson

The season's just begun at Seacliff Caravan Park, but none of the residents are having a good time. Frankie is haunted by his daughter's death. Vidas, homeless and far from Lithuania, seeks sanctuary in an abandoned caravan. Anna struggles to shake off the ghost of her overbearing mother. Kathleen struggles to accept her daughter for who she is. Malcolm, a failed illusionist, makes one final attempt to reinvent himself. Agatha Christie-obsessed Alma faces her toughest case yet as she tries to help them all find what they've lost. With trademark wit and playfulness, in this stunning linked short-story collection Jan Carson explores complex family dynamics, ageing, immigration, gender politics, the decline of the Church and the legacy of the Troubles. The Last Resort firmly places Carson as one of the most inventive and daring writers of her generation.

The Last Resort

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Chris Carse Wilson

There is a small tear on the front of the book jacket, at the lower edge. Otherwise in great condition.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

'Beautiful, amazing, mesmerising' ALAN CUMMING Fray is a missing-person mystery like no other. Set in the menacing Scottish highland wilderness, it follows a lone, nameless narrator who is reeling from their mother's death and father's subsequent disappearance. While searching for the father, we stumble instead upon a remote, abandoned cottage filled with thousands of confusing notes in the father's handwriting. One of these leaves the narrator terrified: I am not gone. Mum is not gone. We are here. We are hidden. As we delve deeper and deeper into these eerie messages, another voice bleeds into the story: a strange, dark and overwhelming voice that threatens everything... Perfect for fans of Pine and The Loney

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