Weights and Measures
Jane Fraser
At Dawn, Two Nightingales
Alan Bilton
Time, Again
Carolyn Lewis_
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Weights and Measures
Jane Fraser
Weights and Measures is an unhurried historical novel that ends as surprisingly for the characters as the reader. It follows an outwardly ordinary family, living in a working class suburb of Swansea, during the early days of World War II, exploring inner lives of fear, passion, and hope.
Preoccupied with their secrets, they live in almost suspended animation, waiting for an end to the weeks and months of apparent nothing – the so-called ‘phoney war.’ None of them are prepared for the real war when it begins – devastating and senseless, reconfiguring their lives forever. But out of tragedy, there is a speck of hope…
“Against the epic backdrop of the Second World War, Fraser’s intimate love letter to Swansea bursts with passion, humour, and heart—a sweeping family saga so compelling readers won’t want to put it down.”
Euros Lyn, BAFTA-winning Film and Television Director
“A vivid and evocative historical novel which captures the atrocities of war through the lens of human experience – the luminous prose utterly transports you to the Froom family household. Fraser’s eye for detail is second to none, and her characters seem to rise up off the page to greet you.”
Fflur Dafydd, Novelist and Screenwriter
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Time, Again
Carolyn Lewis
Sensitively observed and poignantly written, Time, Again explores the eternal conflict between youth and age, parents and children, enduring ambition and the passing of time with both wit and empathy. Has Elizabeth been a good mother? Or did she sacrifice her family in the name of success? Time, Again offers no easy answers but thoughtfully examines the choices and challenges faced by all women in all stages of their lives.
At Dawn, Two Nightingales
Alan Bilton
Bohemia in the Eighteenth Century. At Dawn, Two Nightingales is rumoured to be the most dangerous poem in the world, its haunted verses said to be invested with mysterious, supernatural powers. Now a ragbag bunch of bandits, criminals, censors and brigands are all hunting for it in an uproarious adventure that is part quest, part comic opera, and part unexpected ghost story.
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![Book cover for The End of the Yellow House by Alan Bilton. A worn-down, abandoned white building with boarded-up windows, surrounded by snow and bare trees, under a gloomy overcast sky.]()
The End of the Yellow House – Alan Bilton
Central Russia, 1919, a sanatorium cut off by the chaos of the Russian civil war. The murder of the chief doctor sets in motion a nightmarish series of events involving mysterious experiments, the secret police, the Tsar’s double, possessed cats and the overwhelming madness of war, in this fantastical historical novel.
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![Book cover for "The Book of Jem" by Carole Hailey. The cover features a double exposure of a woman's face and a tree with bare branches, and wind turbines in the background.]()
The Book of Jem – Carole Hailey
In the aftermath of catastrophic religious wars, God has been banned. A young woman – Jem – arrives in the isolated village of Underhill, announcing that not only does God exist, but It has sent her to deliver an apocalyptic message. As the prophesied apocalypse draws near, Jem’s divisive message eventually threatens the very existence of Underhill.
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![Book cover featuring a foggy pier with wooden planks, ornate metal railing, and a small house at the end of the pier, with the title 'Some Sort of Twilight' by Carolyn Lewis.]()
Some Sort of Twilight – Carolyn Lewis
These twelve stories are of people unsure of their place in the world. The stories combine pathos, humour and wisdom to explore how the ordinary can be strange, heartbreaking or comic, illuminating the inner lives of people who feel in some way they’re on the edge of their own lives.
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![Book cover titled 'Border Memories' by Edward Matthews shows a landscape scene with mountains and a full moon in a pink and blue sky.]()
Border Memories – Edward Matthews
Why live one life, when you could live a thousand?
Sol works for a start-up that traffics in the underground memory trade—harvesting memories from donors in Mexico and implanting them in Americans.
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