Ferney by James Long
A wonderful historical novel and addictive love story in the vein of The Time Traveller’s Wife
Once read, never forgotten . . .
Mike and Gally Martin should be idyllically happy as they move to a new cottage in Somerset. But then Gally meets Ferney, an old countryman who seems to know everything about their house and its past, and a strange fixation takes hold. What is it that draws Gally and Ferney together? Ferney knows that time is slipping away and that he must make Gally understand their connection: a bond that has stood the test of time, that runs deeper than life or death.
His Other Lover by Lucy Dawson
You won’t have read anything like this before – exhilarating and astonishing in pace and plot, a totally compulsive read
Mia thinks of herself as a grown up. Her younger sister, Clare, is once again in the death throes of an affair that was always doomed to failure. Mia now understands that relationships need work; that in an adult partnership, passion and spontaneity give way to something different but more lasting. With Pete she knows that her search for ‘The One’ can stop.
Until, tripping over Pete’s phone one night, she reads a text message that sends her blood cold. Everything in it – its tone, the kisses at the end – and Pete’s evasions about the sender ‘Liz’ is wrong, and suddenly the blinkers are off. It’s time to get back in the game and, with everything to play for, Mia is about to discover a capacity for deceit she never knew she had. After all, when Happy Ever After is at stake, any weapon at your disposal is fair game – isn’t it?
Secrets in Prior’s Ford by Eve Houston
Comparable to Rebecca Shaw and Gervais Phinn, this is the start of an exciting new series for Sphere. Prior’s Ford is a small village hiding a surprising number of secrets . . .
There is consternation among the villagers of pretty Scottish borders town, Prior’s Ford, when a firm is interested in re-opening an old granite quarry. Almost overnight neighbours and friends fall out, with some welcoming the work the quarry will bring while others are ready to fight to preserve the village’s peace.
Publican Glen organises a protest group – but when the local newspaper takes an interest in him and the story, he starts to feel very nervous indeed. When Jenny Forsyth attends a protest meeting and sees the quarry surveyor she also discovers a problem. So does the surveyor, for they recognise each other from years back when they lived different lives, a past Jenny has tried very hard to forget . . .
Under a Blood Red Sky by Kate Furnivall
Another fabulously evocative read from Kate Furnivall, author of The Russian Concubine. A breathtaking saga, this is a compelling tale of love, revenge, escape and redemption
Davinsky Labour Camp, Siberia, 1933: Only two things in this wretched place keep Sofia from insanity: the prospect of one day walking free again; and the stories told by her friend Anna, beguiling tales of a charmed childhood in Petrograd – and of Anna’s fervent schoolgirl love for a passionate revolutionary, Vasily. But when Anna falls gravely ill, Sofia makes a promise – she will find a way out of the camp and come back with Vasily to rescue Anna.
After a death-defying escape, Sofia endures the cruel mountain winter. In a remote village, where she’s nursed to health by a gypsy family, she finds more than refuge in the form of widowed father Mikhail Pashin – who is hiding troubles of his own.
Excruciatingly close to freedom, family, even a future – and desperate to save Anna – Sofia is compelled to face a past she has for too long been running from.