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Fay Keenan

Fay Keenan is the author of the bestselling Little Somerby series of novels. She has led writing workshops with Bristol University and has been a visiting speaker in schools. She is a full-time teacher and lives in Somerset.

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Just for the Summer

2021

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Snowflakes Over Bay Tree Terrace

2020

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A Place To Call Home

2019

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'The breeze whipped around my face and neck and I

'The breeze whipped around my face and neck and I clutched the collar of my blazer tightly. It was cold enough for a coat, but I’d left mine behind. I marched with purpose, head down, striding along the road, nearing my destination with every step but my apprehension growing. Halloween pumpkins littered doorsteps and the wind blew up the yellowing leaves around my feet as I walked, whisking them into the frenzy I felt.
I didn’t want to go back inside that house, a strange blend of good and bad memories now attached. It’s only bricks and mortar the voice in my head comforted, it can’t hurt you. But what if it could?' 🍁🎃 #Payback by @gemmarogersauthor is out now!

Last week's competition prize, modelled by the gor

Last week's competition prize, modelled by the gorgeous Taffi, safe to say he's a big @scribbler_maxi fan! 🐶 ❤️

Brand new from Jo Bartlett, the top 10 bestselling

'That night turned out to be a mellow autumn night

'That night turned out to be a mellow autumn night. The air was dry but turning crisper with the prospect of winter being on the horizon.
They'd arranged to meet at their old haunt, The Catherine Wheel, one of the few remaining buildings on Castle Green.
Bridget's mother had made Maisie a smartly fitted velvet jacket from an old curtain. It was dark red and went well with a tweed skirt cut down from an old one given her by her grandmother. Feeling as smart as a magazine mannequin, she caught the bus into townand made her way to the old pub where the ceilings were low and cigarette smoke as thick as soup'

#FireandFuryfortheTobaccoGirls by @lizzielane40 is out now 🍂

The real life inspiration behind the cover! Beauti

The real life inspiration behind the cover! Beautiful Shieldaig in Scotland, the setting of #StartingOveratSunsetCottage by @lisahobmanauthor ❄️

♣️ COVER REVEAL ♥️ She's the boss now...

Christmas is a time for love, families and friends

Christmas is a time for love, families and friends, and in Mermaids Point, everyone is getting ready for the festive season. Happy publication day @sarahlbennettauthor 🎉❄️
#ChristmasSurprisesatMermaidsPoint is out today! 🎄

Do you love someone enough to let them go? ❤️

Do you love someone enough to let them go? ❤️ #StartingOveratSunsetCottage is an emotional love story of second chances set in the beautiful Scottish highlands! Out today 💫
Happy publication day @lisahobmanauthor 🎉

It was love at first sight when talented art student Felicity “Flick” Johnston-Hart and Jim MacDuff’s worlds collided at Oxford University.
However, after years of blissful marriage, everything crashes down when their marriage comes to a painful and abrupt end, thanks to Flick’s interfering mother Penelope.
Finally succumbing to maternal pressure, Flick falls into the high-flying career her mother believed she was destined for.
However, she soon realises life without Jim isn’t all she’d hoped, and that some decisions, once made, cannot be undone.
Meanwhile, Jim is settling back into life as a single man in the beautiful Highland village of Shieldaig, when an unexpected visitor brings painful news. A letter from beyond the grave leads him to do something he never imagined and takes him on a journey he didn’t anticipate.
Can either of them heal and truly move on?
Or is it true that a broken heart can never be a blank canvas?

What are your autumn essentials? 🧣🍂 Do you r

What are your autumn essentials? 🧣🍂 Do you reach for a PSL, your favourite scarf or your dog walking boots like Nerissa in #AutumnDreamsatMermaidsPoint? 🐶

#TheMerseyMistress takes you on a journey to anoth

#TheMerseyMistress takes you on a journey to another time, another place. From the banks of the River Mersey to the frozen waters of the Canadian Saint Laurence River. Start reading this emotional saga today while it's soaring up the Kindle chart! Congratulations @sheilarileyauthor 🎉

'It was one of those perfect autumn days – brigh

'It was one of those perfect autumn days – bright skies, crisp air and a gentle breeze carrying the taste of salt. This was her favourite time of the year. The season of gloves and sun-warmed faces. Not exactly Wordsworth, but that’s what this often quiet period before the onslaught of winter meant to her' #AutumnDreamsatMermaidsPoint by @sarahlbennettauthor 🍂📖

A child who does not know her name... ✨ #TheRoom

A child who does not know her name... ✨
#TheRoomintheAttic is a chilling gothic tale from international bestseller @louisedouglas3! The perfect #Halloween read 📖

In 1903 fishermen find a wrecked boat containing a woman, who has been badly beaten, and a young girl. An ambulance is sent for, and the two survivors are taken to All Hallows, the imposing asylum, hidden deep on Dartmoor. The woman remains in a coma, but the little girl, Harriet, awakens and is taken to an attic room, far away from the noise of the asylum, and is put in the care of Nurse Emma Everdeen.
Two motherless boys banished to boarding school…
In 1993, All Hallows is now a boarding school. Following his mother’s death and his father’s hasty remarriage, Lewis Tyler is banished to Dartmoor, stripped of his fashionable clothes, shorn of his long hair, and left feeling more alone than ever. There he meets Isak, another lost soul, and whilst refurbishment of the dormitories is taking place, the boys are marooned up in the attic, in an old wing of the school.
Cries and calls from the past that can no longer be ignored…
All Hallows is a building full of memories, whispers, cries from the past. As Lewis and Isak learn more about the fate of Harriet, and Nurse Emma’s desperate fight to keep the little girl safe, it soon becomes clear there are ghosts who are still restless.
Are they ghosts the boys hear at night in the room above, are they the unquiet souls from the asylum still caught between the walls? And can Lewis and Isak bring peace to All Hallows before the past breaks them first…
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The perfect daughter. The perfect boyfriend. The p

The perfect daughter. The perfect boyfriend. The perfect mother… Or the perfect liar? #ThePerfectDaughter is out today! Happy publication day @alexstoneauthor 🎉

Jess Harper has spent her whole life trying to make her mum, Abigail happy and proud. And everything Jess does, from the clothes she wears, the job she has, the men she dates, are all approved by Abigail first.

So when Jess announces that she has a new man in her life – plumber Adam – Abigail is less than impressed. 'A plumber? Really, Jessica....' Adam encourages Jess to break free from her mum’s manipulation, can’t she see what’s happening?

But Abigail is only doing these things to keep Jess safe, to protect her from getting hurt again…isn’t she?

Jess, caught in the middle, doesn’t know who to believe or trust. And then Adam vanishes without trace.
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The Queen of Glasgow, Toni McVay, is no ordinary c

Happy Sunday✨ What's everyone reading today? 📚☕️

@lisahobmanauthor, one of our incredible authors,

@lisahobmanauthor, one of our incredible authors, has just opened a book shop (@slightfoxedberwickutweed) 🎉 What an absolute dream! 📚 Who else would love to open a book shop?

We all have dreams but are you ready to live them?

We all have dreams but are you ready to live them? 💕 Escape to hills high above the French Riviera with international bestseller @jenniewriter 🇫🇷

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

After tragically losing her husband, Nicola Jacques and her teenage son Oliver relocate to his father’s family's Olive Farm in the hills above the French Riviera.
Due a family feud, Oliver has never known his fathers’ side of the family and Grandpapa Henri is intent that Oliver will take over the reins of the ancestral farm and his rightful inheritance.
Determined to keep her independence from a rather controlling Grandpapa, Nicola buys a run-down cottage on the edge of the family's Olive Farm and sets to work renovating their new home and providing an income by cultivating the small holding that came with the Cottage.
As the summer months roll by, Nicola and Oliver begin to settle happily into their new way of life with the help of Aunts Josephine and Odette, Henri’s twin sisters and local property developer Gilles Bongars.
But the arrival of some unexpected news and guests at the farm, force Nicole and Aunt Josephine to assess what and where their futures lie.

A secret love… A damaged hope… Can love find a

A secret love… A damaged hope… Can love find a way? ❤️
#AWintersWishfortheCornishMidwife by @jo_bartlett123 is an uplifting and escapist read, perfect for fans of Christie Barlow, Jessica Redland and Holly Martin!

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As winter descends on the coastal town of Port Agnes, midwife Toni Samuels’ mood is as dark as the winter clouds that roll in. Toni loves her job as a midwife, but her private life is falling apart. Because Toni is keeping a secret– a relationship with fellow male midwife Bobby that no one can ever know about.

Kind and gorgeous, Bobby is a huge hit at the midwifery centre, but he’s tired of keeping his feelings for Toni a secret – of always coming second best. He knows that Toni’s past is painful, but unless she can be open with her feelings for him, he’s prepared to walk away from their love.

Toni loves Bobby and wishes things could be different between them. But torn between her past and a future with him, everything seems hopeless. Until fate hands Toni one last chance…
Now Toni’s secret wish is in her hands…if only she can be brave enough to take a chance and make her dreams come true.

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