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BOOK OF THE WEEK with Charlie Richards. Broken Heart: David Ranker #7 , Tim Weaver, ISBN 978-1405917827 (Penguin) BD4.500 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
Where did she go? What did she know? A woman drives to a secluded beauty spot on the Somerset coast. CCTV watches her enter but doesn’t see her leaving. In fact, Lynda Korin is never seen again.
How can someone just disappear? Her sister calls missing persons investigator David Raker. For him, the mystery of where she went is only the start. The real question is why a woman with no reason to run would choose to leave her entire life behind? Was it her decision? Or did someone make it for her?
Raker is an expert at following the echoes of decades-old lies. But only Lynda Korin knows the most shocking secret of all - and she’s missing, presumed dead.
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Heart and Home, Lyn Andrews, ISBN 978-0755399789 (Headline) BD4.500 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
Cathie Kinrade is all too used to hardship. Growing up on the Isle of Man in the 1930s, she sees her da set sail daily on dangerous seas while her mam struggles to put food on the table. Cathie has little hope for her own future, until a chance encounter changes her fortunes forever.
Fiercely determined, Cathie leaves for Liverpool, a bustling modern city full of possibility. With a lively job as a shop girl in a grand department stor, and a firm friend in kind-hearted Julia, Cathie has found her niche. But the discovery of an explosive secret could put everything at risk. And when love comes calling, Cathie’s new friends fear that she may be set to trust the wrong man with her heart.
My favourite read of the week
Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone, J.K. Rowling, ISBN 978-1408855652 (Bloomsbury) BD3.900 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at No 4, Privet Drive.
Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry’s 11th birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin!
These new editions of the classic and internationally bestselling, multi-award-winning series feature instantly pick-up-able new jackets by Jonny Duddle, with huge child appeal, to bring Harry Potter to the next generation of readers. It’s time to pass the magic on.
