The Last Library

‘A wonderfully warm and uplifting story of kindness, community, love and libraries... made me laugh, cry and cheer’Clare Pooley. author of The Authenticity ProjectLonely library assistant June is much more comfortable with books than people. When her mum - the beloved local librarian - passed away.June stepped into her shoes.But shy June has always felt that she could never live up to her mum's legacy. Instead, she’s retreated into herself, surviving on takeaways-for-one and her favourite stories.When the library is threatened with closure. June is distraught at the thought of losing the place that she holds the dearest. Yet when a ragtag band of eccentric but dedicated locals establish the Friends of Chalcot Library campaign. June is forbidden to join their cause.If June wants to save the place that means so much to her. she’ll have to make some bold changes to her life: opening up her heart to friendship, opportunities and maybe even more...

One fateful summer. Four lives changed, forever.‘A modern epic … The Last Romantics is a sweeping look at what binds families together’ GlamourWe thought we’d always be there for each other.We were wrong.For the Skinners, their lives divide into two parts: before that heady summer – of unsupervised youth, family crisis and unavoidable tragedy – and after. But mainly after.The events of that childhood summer bound the Skinner siblings together fiercely, but the consequences would never be erased.After what happened, they thought they could never be pulled apart, but it’s the million little betrayals echoing through the years that threaten to fray their last fragile ties . . .Spanning five decades and following four unforgettable siblings, The Last Romantics is a sweeping, intimate and compelling portrait of one family – and every family. It is about the responsibilities we bear, how we grow together and apart, but how love will always guide us home.

Sweeping and epic, The Last Romantics is an unforgettable portrait of one perfectly imperfect family – the Skinner siblings – and how the consequences of one fateful summer will change their lives forever.The stunning new novel from the New York Times bestselling author, Tara Conklin.Meet the Skinner siblings: fierce Ren?e, dreamy Caroline, golden boy Joe and watchful Fiona.Their story begins with the sudden death of their father and a period known as The Pause; one free and feral summer spent at the neighbourhood pond, which will bind the Skinners tightly together, and irrevocably shape the course of their lives.Two decades later, the adult siblings have scattered. But tragedy will draw them back together once again. They’ll be forced to question the life choices they’ve made and ask what, exactly, they will do for love.Beautifully told with warmth and heartbreak, The Last Romantics is a compelling story about family, the ways in which four siblings grow together & apart, the thousand little ways in which they can betray one another – but also how they’ll always find home.

A novel of the American West narrates the story of a dying man's attempts to make peace with his daughter, their struggle to rescue his granddaughter from renegades and slave traders, and his lifelong search for inner peace.The Last Ride is the story of Maggie Gilkeson, a young woman raising her two daughters in an isolated and lawless wilderness.When her oldest daughter is kidnapped by a psychopathic killer with mystical powers, Maggie is forced to re-unite with her long estranged father to rescue her. The killer and his brutal cult of desperados have kidnapped several other teenage girls, leaving a trail of death and horror across the desolate landscape of the American Southwest. Maggie and her father are in a race against time to catch up with the renegades and save her daughter, before they cross the Mexican border and disappear forever.The Last Ride is the story of a race against time and death, a powerful tale of rescue and reconciliation that provides a haunting insight into our instincts of kinship and need for beliefs.