Natalie Simpson
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Ronke wants happily ever after and 2.2. kids. She's dating Kayode and wants him to be "the one" (perfect, like her dead father). Her friends think he's just another in a long line of dodgy Nigerian boyfriends. Boo has everything Ronke wants--a kind husband, gorgeous child. But she's frustrated, unfulfilled, plagued by guilt, and desperate to remember who she used to be. Simi is the golden one with the perfect lifestyle. No one knows she's crippled...
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Over the past couple of months I've realized there's a fifth book to the Seasonal series. I sensed it was there all through the pre-writing and writing of Summer, which was a novel that had to go one of two ways: I mean there was always the possibility, as I was writing it and its resolutions, of a totally other, different, completely liberated 'end' or addition to the sequence, a book that pulled free from the structure and went off on its own tangent....
3) The Beetle
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The Beetle (1897) is a novel by Richard Marsh. Immensely popular upon publication, The Beetle was an instant bestseller and went on to inspire a 1919 silent film adaptation starring Maudie Dunham. Despite its success, the novel was largely forgotten until scholarly attention in the late-20th century highlighted its importance to the fields of gothic fiction, postcolonial criticism, and women and gender studies. "To have tramped about all day looking...
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When a teenaged girl disappears from an insular small town, all of the community's most devastating secrets come to light in this stunningly atmospheric and slow-burning suspense novel-perfect for fans of Megan Miranda and Celeste Ng.
The town of Whispering Ridge guards its secrets.
When seventeen-year-old Abigail goes missing, her best friend Emma, compelled by the guilt of leaving her alone at a party in the woods, sets out to discover the truth...
5) Sisters
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Sisters is an unsettling story of sibling rivalry by the number one bestselling author of The Girlfriend, Michelle Frances.
'Terrific . . . Twisted, fraught with suspense' - Jo Spain
'I tore through the pages, desperate to discover the terrible secret that separates Abby and Ellie. This high-speed chase of a novel is a perfect summer read' - Louise Candlish
Is blood really thicker than water?
Abby and Ellie were never close as children. Now...
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn and television pioneer Shonda Rhimes comes a powerful and romantic novel of Bridgerton's Queen Charlotte and King George III's great love story and how it sparked a societal shift, inspired by the original series Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, created by Shondaland for Netflix.
"We are one crown. His weight is mine, and mine is his…"
In 1761, on a sunny day in September, a King and Queen...
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2024
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In Where Sleeping Girls Lie — a YA contemporary mystery by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, the New York Times-bestselling author of Ace of Spades — a girl new to boarding school discovers dark secrets and coverups after her roommate disappears.
It's like I keep stumbling into a dark room, searching for the switch to make things bright again...
Sade Hussein is starting