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Sep 4, 2024 | 
thebookseller.com | A S Byatt |Heloise Wood
The life and career of the late Booker-prize winning author of Possession, A S Byatt, will be celebrated at a memorial service in London this month. Family, friends and colleagues of Byatt will gather for the service on Tuesday (10th September) at St James’ Church in Piccadilly, London, which will feature personal tributes alongside readings from her work. Fellow authors, media, academics and others who championed her work have also been invited.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
debrasbookcafe.blogspot.com | A S Byatt |Monica Byrne |Shaun Bythell
At seventeen, Lenora HopeHung her sister with a ropeNow reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope’s End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
debrasbookcafe.blogspot.com | A S Byatt |Monica Byrne |Shaun Bythell
CHICAGO, SOMETIME—Two people meet in the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel; she is a bipolar counterfeit artist, undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. By the end of the story, these things will still be true. But this is not a story about endings. For Regan, people are predictable and tedious, including and perhaps especially herself.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
debrasbookcafe.blogspot.com | A S Byatt |Monica Byrne |Shaun Bythell
A woman escaping a violent past finds new friendships, romance, and tenuous sanctuary in an emotionally gripping novel by New York Times bestselling author Eileen Goudge. On the run from her abusive husband, Kyra Smith hits the road. Destination unknown. With a neglected dog she rescued in tow, she lands in the peaceful California town of Gold Creek and is immediately befriended by an openhearted group of women called the Tattooed Ladies Club. They’re there for Kyra—and for each other.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
debrasbookcafe.blogspot.com | A S Byatt |Monica Byrne |Shaun Bythell
Sumptuous and addictive, An Education in Malice is a dark academia tale of blood, secrets and insatiable hungers from Sunday Times bestselling author S.T. Gibson, author of the cult hit A Dowry of Blood. Deep in the forgotten hills of Massachusetts stands Saint Perpetua's College. Isolated and ancient, it is not a place for timid girls. Here, secrets are currency, ambition is lifeblood, and strange ceremonies welcome students into the fold.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
debrasbookcafe.blogspot.com | A S Byatt |Monica Byrne |Shaun Bythell
From the bestselling author of Hidden Pictures comes a breathtaking work of suspense about a father trying to save his daughter from a life-altering decision that will put everything he loves on the line. Frank Szatowski is shocked when his daughter, Maggie, calls him for the first time in three years. He was convinced that their estrangement would become permanent. He’s even more surprised when she invites him to her upcoming wedding in New Hampshire.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
debrasbookcafe.blogspot.com | A S Byatt |Monica Byrne |Shaun Bythell
A soul-stirring novel about what we choose to keep from our past, and what we choose to leave behind. Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life—living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising a beautiful son, Asher—was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in, and taking over her father's beekeeping business.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
debrasbookcafe.blogspot.com | A S Byatt |Monica Byrne |Shaun Bythell
Waiting on Wednesday was a weekly memo that is hosted by Breaking the Spine Blog that I really enjoyed blogging about in the post, so I thought I would bring it back! Below is this week's pick! Allegra Dixon has never felt loved or wanted. Rejected by her mother - a cold, beautiful socialite - and her absentee military father, Allegra's only escape from her lonely existence is through books and her own rich fantasy world.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
debrasbookcafe.blogspot.com | A S Byatt |Monica Byrne |Shaun Bythell
Grady Hendrix takes on the haunted house in a thrilling new novel that explores the way your past—and your family—can haunt you like nothing else. When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
debrasbookcafe.blogspot.com | A S Byatt |Monica Byrne |Shaun Bythell
For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. But it had a darker side. It was also notorious for corruption and vice, everything from gambling, prostitution, bootleg liquor, and drugs to contract killings. The vice was controlled by a small cabal of mobsters, many of them rumored to be members of the Dixie Mafia. Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco grew up in Biloxi in the sixties and were childhood friends, as well as Little League all-stars.
