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Bee Journal
Sean Borodale
Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy
ed. Neil Astley
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
A Month in the Country
J. L. Carr, Penelope Fitzgerald
A Sea Change
Veronica Henry, Lisa Lailey
Turned Out Nice Again: On Living with the Weather
Richard Mabey
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4
Sue Townsend
Dart
Alice Oswald
The Help
Kathryn Stockett
I Capture the Castle
Dodie Smith, Valerie Grove
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Rachel Joyce
Miss Garnet's Angel
Salley Vickers
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Winifred Watson, Henrietta Twycross-Martin
Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)
Terry Pratchett
A Street Cat Named Bob: How One Man and His Cat Found Hope on the Streets
James Bowen
The Thread
Victoria Hislop
Thursdays in the Park
Hilary Boyd
Too Much Happiness
Alice Munro
Various Pets Alive and Dead
Marina Lewycka