M. W. Craven ‘Fearless’ Book Launch
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EVERY SATURDAY! Every Saturday morning at 11 am our storyteller Lee will read a couple of children's books at Bookends From classic tales to the...
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We are very pleased to introduce Helen Towers to all our website friends We will feature lots of reviews by Helen, mainly contemporary fiction If...
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Review by Helen's Reads Weyward is a riveting and absorbing debut novel which tells the story of 3 generations of women living at different times,...
Read MoreThe Saint of Lost Things by Tish Delaney
A Helen’s Reads Review Lindy Morris lives with Auntie Bell on the edge of Donegal, in a bungalow on Granda Morris's land, although...
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A Helen’s Reads Review Meet the Hildebrandt family: firstly there is Russ, assistant pastor of the First Reformed church in New...
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A Helen's Reads Review Bournville follows four generations of one family, whose lives are shaped and influenced by the Birmingham suburb where they...
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A Helen's Reads Review In the bedroom above her immense studio at Burntcoat, the celebrated sculptor Edith Harkness is making her final...
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Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson Hidden among us is a secret government department of witches known as Her Majesty’s Royal Coven...
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A Helen's Reads Review Marisa has only known Jake a few months, but she has completely fallen for him When he asks her to move in with him and...
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