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Recommended non-fiction
After her mum died, broadcaster and writer Emma Kennedy struggled to know how to grieve and how to remember their relationship, until she was given dozens of old letters.
Publication date: 12th May 2022
Recommended non-fiction
With beautiful photography, this is the compelling and inspiring story of how Xa Tollemache learnt to garden, transforming Helmingham in Suffolk to its former glory, and creating and renewing other gardens beyond.
Publication date: 12th May 2022
Recommended non-fiction
A warm, engaging and 'down-to-earth' account of ambition and success. Beautifully written. Loved it.
Publication date: 12th May 2022
Recommended for children
A personal perspective of the life of Queen Elizabeth II, beautifully illustrated, making a delightful keepsake for the Platinum Jubilee.
Publication date: 12th May 2022
Another fabulous Josephine Tey mystery, this time set in Suffolk in 1939 as children are evacuated from London at the start of the war.
Publication date: 19th May 2022
What would happen if you got to know the people in your train carriage? A brilliant, wonderful read with characters I didn't want to leave.
Publication date: 26th May 2022
Recommended non-fiction
Publication date: 2nd June 2022
Meredith hasn't stepped beyond her front door for 1,214 days, that's three years! What is it that is keeping Meredith at home?
Publication date: 9th June 2022
An Australian crime mystery. It's nearly 20 years since the sisters of Mina and Alanna disappeared. Now a guy's in town promising to find out what happened.
Publication date: 9th June 2022
Recommended for children
Publication date: 9th June 2022
Recommended non-fiction
Publication date: 30th June 2022
Recommended non-fiction
Publication date: 7th July 2022