The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom ‘You must not become too friendly with them, ’ she said. ‘They are not the same as us.’ ‘How?’ I asked. ‘How are they not the same?’ When seven-year-old Irish orphan Lavinia is transported to Virginia to work in the kitchen of a wealthy Read more
10 October 2015 Dear NPC Chair and Councillors, cc. Cllr Baroness Scott of Bybrook OBE; Neighbourhood Planning Working Group; Paula Coyle Re.Neighbourhood Planning Consultation – Follow up to NPC Meeting 8 Oct 2015 Thank you for allowing me to present the Neighbourhood Planning Working Group’s (NPWG) analysis of the consultation of Read more
Funny Girl by Nick Hornby Make them laugh, and they’re yours forever . . . It’s the swinging 60s and the nation is mesmerized by unlikely comedy star Sophie Straw, the former Blackpool beauty queen who just wants to make people laugh, like her heroine Lucille Ball. Behind the Read more
Black Diamonds by Catherine Bailey Wentworth House was surrounded by 70 collieries employing tens of thousands of men. It is England’s forgotten palace which belonged to Britain’s richest aristocrats. Black Diamonds tells the story of its demise: family feuds, forbidden love, class war, and a tragic and violent death Read more
Go set a Watchman by Harper Lee Described as the “publishing event of the decade” Go set a Watchman was written before the American Classic, To Kill A Mockingbird – which, until now, was Harper Lee’s only published novel. Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch – ‘Scout’ – returns home Read more
Us by David Nicholls One night, Douglas Petersen, a 54-year-old industrial biochemist, is woken by his art gallerist wife of almost a quarter of a century, Connie, and informed that she thinks their marriage may be over. This is bad news for Douglas – not only because Read more
A Neighbourhood Plan can establish general planning policies for development in a defined area and is intended to give communities more of a say in the development of their local area. The plan must be compatible with local authority and national planning strategies, and must be supported by the local Read more
The Heat of Betrayal by Douglas Kennedy The publisher’s blurb: Robin knew Paul wasn’t perfect. But he said they were so lucky to have found each other, and she believed it was true. In the heady strangeness of Morocco, he is everything she wants him to be – passionate, Read more