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Victorian Voyages,Thrillers, Arctic Ghost Stories, Love Stories, Gripping Crime and more make up the 8 titles for the Autumn Book Club with WHSmith
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Left Neglected
Lisa Genova
Sarah Nickerson is a high-powered working mom with too much on her plate and too little time. One day racing to work and trying to make a phone call, she takes her eyes off the road for a second too long. In the blink of an eye, all the rapidly movin Read more
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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Aimee Bender
On the eve of her ninth birthday, Rose Edelstein bites into her mother’s homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother’s emotions in the slice. All at once her cheerful, can-do mother tastes of despa Read more
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The Black House
Peter May
A brutal killing has taken place on Lewis, Scotland’s most remote island. Detective Fin Macleod, at home in Edinburgh on compassionate leave, is sent to investigate. For Lewis-born Macleod, the case represents a journey both home and into his past, Read more
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Dark Matter
Michelle Paver
January 1937. Clouds of war are gathering over London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poor, lonely and desperate to change his life. So when he's offered a spot on an Arctic expedition, he jumps at it. Spirits are high as the ship leaves for Norway: f Read more
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Jamrach's Menagerie
Carol Birch
'I was born twice. First in wooden room that jutted out over the black water of the Thames, and then again eight years later in the Highway, when the tiger took me in his mouth and everything truly began.'
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Everything and Nothing
Araminta Hall
Cupboards were sticky from spilt jam and honey, and the oven smoked when you turned it on because of the fat that had built up over the years. Agatha would never, ever let her future home end up like this. She would never leave it every day like Ruth Read more
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Next of Kin
David Hosp
When Boston attorney Scott Finn agrees to defend the son of notorious mobster Eamonn McDougal, he knows he's putting his reputation on the line. But he also knows he can use him as bait to reel in the prize catch. In a city where mob crime once ruled Read more
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The End of Everything
Megan Abbott
A close-knit street, the clink of glass on glass, summer heat. Two girls on the brink of adolescence, throwing cartwheels on the grass. Two girls who tell each other everything. Until one shimmering afternoon, one of them disappears. Lizzie is left w Read more
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