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Cold enough for snow [DIY Book Club] / Jessica Au.

A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the autumn evenings, escape the typhoon rains, share meals in small cafes and restaurants, and visit galleries to see some of the city's most radical modern art. All the while, they talk: about the weather, horoscopes, clothes, and objects, about family, distance, and memory. But uncertainties abound. Who is really speaking here-is it only the daughter? And what is the real reason behind this elliptical, perhaps even spectral journey? At once a careful reckoning and an elegy, Cold Enough for Snow questions whether any of us speak a common language, which dimensions can contain love, and what claim we have to truly know another's inner world. Selected from more than 1,500 entries, Cold Enough for Snow won the Novel Prize, a new, biennial award offered by New Directions, Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK), and Giramondo (Australia), for any novel written in English that explores and expands the possibilities of the form.
Author: Au, Jessica
First New Directions edition.
Published: New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2022.
Published: ©2022
95 pages ; 21 cm.
New Directions paperbook ; 1522.

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - 12 copies in set - Onloan - Due: 17 May 2024 - 011014064

Apples never fall [DIY Book Club] / Liane Moriarty.

"From the outside, the Delaneys appear to be an enviably contented family. Now that Joy and Stan have sold the family business they have all the time in the world to learn how to 'relax'. Their four adult children are busy living their own lives, and while it could be argued they never quite achieved their destinies, no-one ever says that out loud. But now Joy Delaney has disappeared and her children are re-examining their parents' marriage and their family history with fresh, frightened eyes. Were things ever as rosy as they seemed in the Delaney household?" -- Back cover.
Author: Moriarty, Liane
Published: Sydney, NSW : Pan Macmillan Australia, 2022.
Published: ©2021.
487 pages ; 20 cm.
1 reserve

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - 12 copies in set - Available - 010792536

Beautiful world, where are you [DIY Book Club] / Sally Rooney.

Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a distribution warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are still young - but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?
Author: Rooney, Sally
Published: London : Faber & Faber, 2021.
367 pages ; 23 cm.

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - 12 copies in set - Available - 010791966

Still Life [DIY Book Club] / Sarah Winman.

By the bestselling, prize-winning author of When God was a Rabbit and Tin Man, Still Life is a beautiful, big-hearted, richly tapestried story of people brought together by love, war, art, flood and the ghost of E.M. Forster.
Author: Winman, Sarah, 1964-
Published: London, UK : Fourth Estate UK/US, 2021.
24 cm.

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - 12 copies in set - Available - 010748830

Klara and the Sun [DIY Book Club] / Kazuo Ishiguro.

This is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans.
Author: Ishiguro, Kazuo
Published: London, UK : Faber & Faber, 2021.
23 cm.
1 reserve

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - 12 copies in set - Onloan - Due: 17 May 2024 - 010746355

Fragile Monsters [DIY Book Club] / Menon, Catherine.

On a visit to her childhood home in rural Malaysia, Durga faces a reckoning. Stuck with her sharp-tongued grandmother in the rising heat, both women must untangle the truth from the myth of their family's past. What happened to Durga's mother after she gave birth? Why did so many of their family members disappear during the war?
Author: Menon, Catherine
Published: London, UK : Viking, 2021.
23 cm.

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - 12 copies in set - Available - 010802037

A Million Things [DIY Book Club] / Emily Spurr.

Rae is ten years old, and she's tough. She's had to be- life with her mother has taught her the world is not her friend. Now suddenly her mum is gone and Rae is alone, except for her dog Splinter. Rae can do a lot of things pretty well for a kid.
Author: Spurr, Emily
Published: Melbourne, VIC : Text Publishing, 2021.
23 cm.

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - 12 copies in set - Available - 010802051

Once There Were Wolves [DIY Book Club] / Charlotte McConaghy.

Inti Flynn arrives in Scotland with her twin sister, Aggie, to lead a team of biologists tasked with reintroducing fourteen gray wolves into the remote Highlands. But when a farmer is found dead, Inti knows where the town will lay blame. Unable to accept her wolves could be responsible, Inti makes a reckless decision to protect them.
Author: McConaghy, Charlotte
Published: Camberwell, VIC : Hamish Hamilton Australia, 2021.
23 cm.
1 reserve

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - 12 copies in set - Available - 010803447

How Beautiful We Were [DIY Book Club] / Mbue, Imbolo.

Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, How Beautiful We Were tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. A masterful exploration of what happens when the reckless drive for profit, coupled with the ghost of colonialism, comes up against one community's determination.
Author: Mbue, Imbolo
Published: Edinburgh, UK : Canongate, 2021.
21 cm.
1 reserve

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - 12 copies in set - Available - 011014378

If I Had Your Face [DIY Book Club] / Cha, Frances.

A riveting debut novel set in contemporary Seoul, Korea, about four young women making their way in a world defined by impossible standards of beauty, after-hours room salons catering to wealthy men, ruthless social hierarchies, and K-pop mania "Powerful and provocative . . .
Author: Cha, Frances
Published: New York, USA : Ballantine, 2021.
289 p. 20 cm.

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - 12 copies in set - Available - 011162611

The Book of Form and Emptiness [DIY Book Club] / Ozeki, Ruth.

One year after the death of his beloved musician father, thirteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce. When his mother develops a hoarding problem, the voices grow more clamorous.
Author: Ozeki, Ruth
Published: Melbourne, VIC : Text Publishing, 2021.

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - 12 copies in set - Available - 010787983

Honeybee [DIY Book Club] / Craig Silvey.

'Find out who you are, and live that life.' Late in the night, fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail and looks down at the road far below. At the other end of the same bridge, an old man, Vic, smokes his last cigarette. The two see each other across the void. A fateful connection is made, and an unlikely friendship blooms. Slowly, we learn what led Sam and Vic to the bridge that night. Bonded by their suffering, each privately commits to the impossible task of saving the other. Honeybee is a heart-breaking, life-affirming novel that throws us headlong into a world of petty thefts, extortion plots, botched bank robberies, daring dog rescues and one spectacular drag show. At the heart of Honeybee is Sam: a solitary, resilient young person battling to navigate the world as their true self; ensnared by a loyalty to a troubled mother, scarred by the volatility of a domineering step-father, and confounded by the kindness of new alliances. Honeybee is a tender, profoundly moving novel brimming with vivid characters and luminous words. It's about two lives forever changed by a chance encounter -- one offering hope, the other redemption. It's about when to persevere, and when to be merciful, as Sam learns when to let go, and when to hold on.
Author: Silvey, Craig, 1982-
Published: Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2020.
Published: Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2020.
Published: ©2020.
424 pages ; 24 cm.
1 reserve

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - SILV - 12 copies in set - Available - 010532880

There was still love [DIY Book Club] / Favel Parrett.

Prague, 1938: Eva flies down the street from her sister. Suddenly a man steps out, a man wearing a hat. Eva runs into him, hits the pavement hard. His hat is in the gutter. His anger slaps Eva, but his hate will change everything, as war forces so many lives into small, brown suitcases. Prague, 1980: No one sees Ludek. A young boy can slip right under the heavy blanket that covers this city - the fear cannot touch him. Ludek is free. And he sees everything. The world can do what it likes. The world can go to hell for all he cares because Babi is waiting for him in the warm flat. His whole world. Melbourne, 1980: Malá Liška's grandma holds her hand as they climb the stairs to their third floor flat. Inside, the smell of warm pipe tobacco and homemade cakes. Here, Mána and Bill have made a life for themselves and their granddaughter. A life imbued with the spirit of Prague and the loved ones left behind. Favel Parrett's deep emotional insight and stellar literary talent shine through in this love letter to the strong women who bind families together, despite dislocation and distance. It is a tender and beautifully told story of memory, family and love. Because there is still love. No matter what.
Author: Parrett, Favel
Published: [S.l.] : Hachette Australia, 2019.
Published: Sydney, NSW : Hachette Australia, 2019.
Published: ©2019.
vii, 214 pages ; 22 cm.

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - PARR - 12 copies in set - Onloan - Due: 20 Jun 2024 - 010532897

Less [DIY Book Club] / Andrew Sean Greer.

Arthur Less is a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the post: it is from an ex-boyfriend of nine years who is engaged to someone else. Arthur can't say yes - it would be too awkward; he can't say no - it would look like defeat. So, he begins to accept the invitations on his desk to half-baked literary events around the world. From France to India, Germany to Japan, Arthur almost falls in love, almost falls to his death, and puts miles between him and the plight he refuses to face.
Author: Greer, Andrew Sean
Published: London : Abacus, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, 2018.
Published: ©2017.
261 pages ; 20 cm

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - 12 copies in set - Available - 010157373

Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine [DIY Book Club] / Gail Honeyman.

"Smart, warm, uplifting, the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes the only way to survive is to open her heart. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. That, combined with her unusual appearance (scarred cheek, tendency to wear the same clothes year in, year out), means that Eleanor has become a creature of habit (to say the least) and a bit of a loner. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kind of friends who rescue each other from the lives of isolation they have each been living. And it is Raymond's big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one"--
Author: Honeyman, Gail
Published: New York : Penguin Books, 2018.
Published: ©2017.
325, 7 pages ; 21 cm.
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Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - 12 copies in set - Available - 010158776

The memory artist [DIY Book Club] / Katherine Brabon.

Winner of the Australian/Vogel's Literary Award 2016. How can hope exist when the past is so easily forgotten?. Pasha Ivanov is a child of the Freeze, born in Moscow during Brezhnev's repressive rule over the Soviet Union. As a small child, Pasha sat at the kitchen table night after night as his parents and their friends gathered to preserve the memory of terrifying Stalinist violence, and to expose the continued harassment of dissidents...When Gorbachev promises glasnost, openness, Pasha, an eager twenty-four year old, longs to create art and to carry on the work of those who came before him. He writes; falls in love. Yet that hope, too, fragments and by 1999 Pasha lives a solitary life in St Petersburg. Until a phone call in the middle of the night acts as a summons both to Moscow and to memory...Through recollections and observation, Pasha walks through the landscapes of history, from concrete tower suburbs, to a summerhouse during Russia's white night summers, to haunting former prison camps in the Arctic north. Pasha's search to find meaning leads him to assemble a fractured story of Russia's traumatic past...'This is a poignant and beautifully written novel.' Jenny Barry. 'The characters are deep and rich ... keeps you reading just through the sheer quality of it all.' Rohan Wilson.
Author: Brabon, Katherine, 1987-
First published in 2015.
Published: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2017.
Published: ©2016
300 pages ; 20 cm.

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - 12 copies in set - Onloan - Due: 21 Jun 2024 - 010159681

Vinegar girl : the taming of the shrew retold [DIY Book Club] / Anne Tyler.

Kate Battista feels stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty younger sister Bunny? Plus, she's always in trouble at work her pre-school charges adore her, but their parents don't always appreciate her unusual opinions and forthright manner. Dr. Battista has other problems. After years out in the academic wilderness, he is on the verge of a breakthrough. His research could help millions. There's only one problem: his brilliant young lab assistant, Pyotr, is about to be deported. And without Pyotr, all would be lost. When Dr. Battista cooks up an outrageous plan that will enable Pyotr to stay in the country, he s relying as usual on Kate to help him. Kate is furious: this time he s really asking too much. But will she be able to resist the two men's touchingly ludicrous campaign to bring her around?
Author: Tyler, Anne
Published: London : Hogarth, 2017
Published: ©2016
263 pages ; 20 cm.
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Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - 12 copies in set - Onloan - Due: 15 Jun 2024 - 010158646

Our souls at night [DIY Book Club] / Kent Haruf.

A story about growing old with grace. Addie Moore and Louis Waters have been neighbours for years. Now they both live alone, their houses empty of family, their quiet nights solitary. Then one evening Addie pays Louis a visit. Their brave adventures form the beating heart of Our Souls at Night, Kent Haruf's exquisite final novel.
Author: Haruf, Kent
Published: London : Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, 2016.
Published: ©2015.
179 pages ; 20 cm
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Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - 12 copies in set - Available - 010158899

The Italians at Cleat's Corner Store [DIY Book Club] / Jo Riccioni.

In 1949, the arrival of an Italian family sets tongues wagging in the village of Leyton, an English farming community still recovering from the war. For seventeen-year-old Connie, however, the newcomers provide a tantalising glimpse of the wider world — a world beyond the gossip and petty concerns traded over the counter of Cleat's Corner Store. Under their father's stern eye, the Onorati brothers adapt to their new life in remarkably different ways. While the charismatic Vittorio is determined to reinvent himself and embrace all things English, the solitary Lucio is haunted by the secrets of his past, events that tether him to the war in the mountains of Lazio. As both brothers begin to cast an unexpected influence over Leyton, Connie realises that, like them, she must grapple with her ambitions and dreams for the future. But what can any of them hope to find in the ruins of all they've lost
Author: Riccioni, Jo
Published: 2014

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - 12 copies in set - Available - 010158318

The glass room [DIY Book Club] / Simon Mawer.

The book that shone new light on our times: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2009, The Glass Room is being reissued with a new cover alongside other classic titles from the Abacus list in our 40th Anniversary year. High on a Czechoslovak hill, the Landauer House shines as a wonder of steel and glass and onyx built specially for newlyweds Viktor and Liesel Landauer, a Jew married to a gentile. But the radiant honesty of 1930 that the house, with its unique Glass Room, seems to engender quickly tarnishes as the storm clouds of WW2 gather, and eventually the family must flee, accompanied by Viktor's lover and her child. But the house's story is far from over, and as it passes from hand to hand, from Czech to Russian, both the best and the worst of the history of Eastern Europe becomes somehow embodied and perhaps emboldened within the beautiful and austere surfaces and planes so carefully designed, until events become full-circle.
Author: Mawer, Simon
Published: London : Abacus, 2013.
Published: ?́??́Ư2013
405 pages ; 20 cm

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - 12 copies in set - Available - 010158417

Howards End [DIY Book Club] / Forster, E. M.

'Only connect.' is the idea at the heart of this book, a heartbreaking and provocative tale of three families at the beginning of the twentieth century: the rich Wilcoxes, the gentle, idealistic Schlegels and the lower-middle class Basts.
Author: Forster, E. M.
Published: London, UK : Penguin, 2012.
400 p. 20 cm.

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - 12 copies in set - Available - 011163779

The gathering [DIY Book Club] / Anne Enright.

Review: "The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him - although that certainly helped - it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother's house, in the winter of 1968." --Back cover.
Author: Enright, Anne, 1962-
Published: London : Vintage, 2008.
Published: ©2007
260 pages ; 20 cm.
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Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - 12 copies in set - Available - 010159155

Maurice [DIY Book Club] / E.M. Forster

First time in Black Classics for Forster's autobiographical novel of homosexual love.Maurice Hall is a young man who grows up confident in his privileged status and well aware of his role in society. Modest and generally conformist, he nevertheless finds himself increasingly attracted to his own sex.
Author: Forster, E.M.
Published: London, UK : Penguin, 2005.
272 p. 20 cm.

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - 12 copies in set - Available - 010803454

Such a fun age [DIY Book Club]

Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living showing other women how to do the same. A mother to two small girls, she started out as a blogger and has quickly built herself into a confidence-driven brand. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains' toddler one night. Seeing a young black woman out late with a white child, a security guard at their local high-end supermarket accuses Emira of kidnapping two-year-old Briar. A small crowd gathers, a bystander films everything, and Emira is furious and humiliated. Alix resolves to make it right. But Emira herself is aimless, broke and wary of Alix's desire to help. At twenty-five, she is about to lose her health insurance and has no idea what to do with her life. When the video of Emira unearths someone from Alix's past, both women find themselves on a crash course that will upend everything they think they know about themselves, and each other. With empathy and piercing social commentary, Such a Fun Age explores the stickiness of transactional relationships, what it means to make someone 'family,' the complicated reality of being a grown up and the consequences of doing the right thing for the wrong reason.
Author: Reid, Kiley

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - 12 copies in set - Available - 010545842

Travels with my aunt [DIY Book Club] / Graham Greene.

Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at his mother's funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, his dahlias and the Major next door to travel her way, through Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay... Accompanying his aunt, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society- mixing with hippies, war criminals, CIA men; smoking pot, breaking all the currency regulations and eventually coming alive after a dull suburban lifetime.
Author: Greene, Graham, 1904-1991
Published: 1999
Available online: Click here to view Book Club notes
1 reserve

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - 12 copies in set - Available - 010158981

Exit west [DIY Book Club] / Mohsin Hamid

From the internationally bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, a love story that unfolds in a world being irrevocably transformed by migration. In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, thrust into premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it explodes, turning familiar streets into a patchwork of checkpoints and bomb blasts, they begin to hear whispers about doors--doors that can whisk people far away, if perilously and for a price. As violence and the threat of violence escalate, Nadia and Saeed decide that they no longer have a choice. Leaving their homeland and their old lives behind, they find a door and step through. Exit West is an epic compressed into a slender page-turner--both completely of our time and for all time, Mohsin Hamid's most ambitious and electrifying novel yet.
Author: Hamid, Mohsin, 1971-
Published: 2017
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Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - 12 copies in set - Available - 010157397

Music and freedom [DIY Book Club] / Zoe Morrison.

A gripping and beautifully written novel that brings to mind Notes on a Scandal and Elizabeth is Missing. Alice Haywood is born on an orange farm in country New South Wales. She begins playing the piano when she is three, taught by her English mother who is unhappy in Australia and in a desolate, violent marriage. When Alice is seven, her mother, desperate for her daughter to leave if she can't, sends her to boarding school in the bleak north of England, and there Alice stays for the next ten years. Then she's offered a scholarship to the Royal College of Music in London. That year, on a summer school in Oxford, she meets Edward, an economics professor, who sweeps her off her feet. But underneath his suave demeanor,Edward is a damaged man. He traps her into marriage and Alice is stuck, oppressed by his cruelty, in the Oxford home he has bought for her. After a disastrous recital of Rachmaninoff's Second Concerto, she stops playing and her dreams of becoming a concert pianist evaporate. Alice and Edward have a son, Richard, whom she adores. He too is a talented musician. But as Richard grows up he becomes more and more distant, and ultimately Alice can't find it in herself to carry on. Then she starts to hear the most beautiful music coming from the walls of her house. Inspiring and unusual, this novel's love story is that of a woman who must embrace life again if she is to survive. With a wonderful cast led by Alice, the novel explores the dark terrain of violence and the transformative powers of music, and love.
Author: Morrison, Zoë, 1977-
Published: 2016
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Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - 12 copies in set - Available - 010158462

The lost flowers of Alice Hart [DIY Book Club] / Holly Ringland.

Alice Hart lives in isolation by the sea, where her mother's enchanting flowers and their hidden messages shelter her from the dark moods of her father. When tragedy changes her life irrevocably, 9-year-old Alice goes to live with the grandmother she never knew existed, on a native flower farm that gives refuge to women who, like Alice, are lost or broken. In the Victorian tradition, every flower has a meaning and, as she settles into her new life, Alice uses this language of flowers to say the things that are too hard to speak. As she grows older, though, family secrecy, a devastating betrayal and a man who's not all he seems, combine to make Alice realise there are some stories that flowers alone cannot tell. If she is to have the freedom she craves, she must find the courage to possess the most powerful story she knows: her own.
Author: Ringland, Holly
Published: 2018

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - 12 copies in the set - Available - 010159261

Home fire [DIY Book Club] / Kamila Shamsie.

From the Orange and Baileys Prize-shortlisted author comes an urgent, explosive story of love and a family torn apart Isma is free. After years spent raising her twin siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she is finally studying in America, resuming a dream long deferred. But she can't stop worrying about Aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong sister back in London - or their brother, Parvaiz, who's disappeared in pursuit of his own dream: to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew. Then Eamonn enters the sisters' lives. Handsome and privileged, he inhabits a London worlds away from theirs. As the son of a powerful British Muslim politician, Eamonn has his own birthright to live up to - or defy. Is he to be a chance at love? The means of Parvaiz's salvation? Two families' fates are inextricably, devastatingly entwined, in this searing novel that asks: what sacrifices will we make in the name of love? A contemporary reimagining of Sophocles' Antigone, Home Fire is an urgent, fiercely compelling story of loyalties torn apart when love and politics collide - confirming Kamila Shamsie as a master storyteller of our times.
Author: Shamsie, Kamila
Published: 2017

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - 12 copies in set - Available - 010159407

The bookshop [DIY Book Club] / Penelope Fitzgerald.

In 1959, Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bookshop, the only bookshop, in the seaside town of Hardborough. By making a success of a business so impractical, she invites the hostility of the town's less prosperous shopkeepers. By daring to enlarge her neighbors' lives, she crosses Mrs. Gamart, the local arts doyenne. Florence's warehouse leaks, her cellar seeps, and the shop is apparently haunted. Only too late does she begin to suspect the truth: a town that lacks a bookshop isn't always a town that wants one.
Author: Fitzgerald, Penelope
Published: 2018
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Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - 12 copies + 1 DVD in set - Available - 010159063