What is Readers' Day?

> A mini festival in a day
> One ticket, seven speakers
> Meet your favourite authors
> Hear about their latest books
> Find out what inspires them
> Share the joy of reading with like-minded people

Kindly sponsored by Woman & Home magazine

Polly CLark 

Larchfield

Newly married and pregnant, a young poet is full of hope when she moves to the west coast of Scotland. But the realities of small town life are suffocating, until she finds a way to escape reality altogether. A beautiful debut novel that cleverly weaves the story of a woman’s struggle with isolation and sanity, with that of the poet W H Auden. 

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Rachel Joyce

The Music Shop

From the author of the bestselling The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a new novel about learning how to listen, how to feel, and about second chances. When Ilse Brauchmann walks into Frank’s music shop and asks him to teach her about music his instinct is to run. Yet he stays and what follows is a tender love story with the healing power of music at its heart. 

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Lucy Atkins

The Night Visitor

How far would you go to save your reputation? High-flying Olivia Sweetman knows that her life is spiralling out of control. Only one person knows what she has done, and she has secrets of her own. As the relationship between the two women grows more entangled an act of violence changes everything. A chilling tale of ambition, morality and deception from the author of The Missing One and The Other Child.

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Fiona Barton

The Child

When a paragraph in an evening newspaper reveals a decades-old tragedy, most readers barely give it a glance. But for three strangers the story is impossible to ignore.  For one it’s a reminder of the worst thing that ever happened to her. For another, it’s the possibility that her darkest secret will be uncovered. For the third, a journalist, it’s the first clue. From the author of The Widow, comes another unputdownable thriller.

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Veronica Henry

The Forever House

Would you know your forever house if you found it? Nestled by a river, Hunter’s Moon has been the Willoughbys' home for over 50 years, and now estate agent Belinda Baxter is determined to find the perfect family to live there. But the sale of the house unlocks decades of family secrets - and brings Belinda face to face with her own troubled past. Another irresistible novel from one of our best-loved romantic novelists. 

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Penny Vincenzi

A Question of Trust

Widely-regarded as the doyenne of the modern blockbuster Penny has sold over seven million copies worldwide including bestselling titles,The Decision and A Perfect Heritage. Her latest novel, A Question of Trust, sees a man faced with a dilemma that threatens his principles, his reputation, his marriage and a child. What choices will he make? Rich with characters, life-changing decisions, love, desire and conflict it’s vintage Penny Vincenzi.  

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Kate Eberlen

Miss You

One of the most talked about debut novels of 2016 this is a love story with a difference. For one day in Florence, the paths of two young people criss-cross before each must return home.  Over the next 16 years, life and love offers them different challenges offering no chance of meeting properly... or is there? Funny and poignant it’s a story that will break your heart. 

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