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THE SECRET OF NIGHTINGALE WOOD, LUCY STRANGE, 978-1910655030, CHICKEN HOUSE BD3.400 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
A Telegraph Top 50 Book of the Year
A Waterstones Book of the Month Pick
When grief has broken your heart, can the magic of fairy tales heal it? Who says stories have to stay on the page…? It’s 1919. The First World War is over, but that doesn’t mean things are hunky dory in Henrietta’s life. Mama is ill. Father’s gone abroad for work.
Nanny Jane is too busy to pay any attention to Henrietta and the things she sees - or thinks she sees - in the shadows of their new home, Hope House. All alone, with only stories for company, Henry discovers that Hope House is full of strange secrets: a forgotten attic, ghostly figures, mysterious firelight that flickers in the trees beyond the garden.
Which leaves Henry all alone in their spooky new country house, wrestling with the pain of her brother’s death. The only company she has are the characters from her old childhood stories.
One night she ventures into the darkness of Nightingale Wood. What she finds there will change her whole world ....
A magical novel with a truly classic feel, this has been regarded as one (if not the best) children’s novel by a new writer to be published since the Harry Potter books.
Written by Lucy Strange who trained at the Oxford School of Drama after studying English Literature at Sheffield University. Lucy then worked as an actor, singer and storyteller for some years before becoming an English and Drama teacher.
ANNIE’S LOVELY CHOIR BY THE SEA, LIZ EELES
9781786810632 (BOOKOUTRE)
BD4.900 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
Author Liz, a former colleague of GulfWeekly editor Stan Szecowka, started her writing career as a journalist and press officer before deciding that she’d rather have the freedom of making things up as a novelist.
She lives on the English South Coast with her family and, when she’s not writing, likes to spend time walking by the sea, and trying to meditate.
Being short-listed in the Corvus ‘Love at First Write’ competition and the Novelicious search for a new women’s fiction star gave Liz the push she needed to keep putting pen to paper.
Annie’s Lovely Choir by the Sea is a heart-warming story about family, belonging and the healing power of music, perfect for fans of Jo Thomas, Holly Martin and Carole Matthews.
Light hearted and fun it is a joyful uncomplicated modern read which starts when 29-old Annie Trebarwith receives an unexpected letter from a great-aunt she’s never known. She leaves her shoebox-sized flat in London and catches a train to the rugged Cornish coast.
Salt Bay is beautiful and Annie begins to kindle a bond with her great-aunt Alice. Even though there is zero phone signal and the locals – including the gorgeous but brooding Josh Pasco – can be decidedly grumpy at times, Annie starts to feel at home in Salt Bay.
Soon Annie’s love of music leads her to relaunch the Salt Bay Choral Society, and she’s surprised to see how just much the choir means to the community – and she even starts to break through Josh’s surly exterior…
But London is calling Annie back, and she has to make a decision. Give up her old life completely, or leave Salt Bay, her new-found family, and the choir, behind?
I am sure that the readers of this book will be looking forward to seeing how Annie’s life develops in the promised sequel.
THIS IS GOING TO HURT, ADAM KEY
978-1509858613 (PICADOR)
BD8.200 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
Welcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to life and death decisions. Welcome to a constant tsunami of bodily fluids. Welcome to earning less than the hospital parking meter. Wave goodbye to your friends and relationships ...
Welcome to the life of a junior doctor.
Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, comedian and former junior doctor Adam Kay’s This Is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line.
Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking by turns, these diaries are everything you wanted to know – and more than a few things you didn’t – about life on and off the hospital ward. And yes, it may leave a scar.
Adam Kay is an award-winning comedian and writer for TV and film. He previously worked for many years as a junior doctor. This is his first book, published last month - without doubt more will follow.
