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Title: All Among The Barley Author: Melissa Harrison Publisher:  Bloomsbury Publishing Published on: 23rd August 2018 Binding:  Paperback ISBN: 9781408897997 The fields were eternal,  our life the only way of things, and I would do whatever was  required of me to protect it. BLURB From the author of Costa-shortlisted and Baileys-longlisted  At Hawthorn Time  comes a major new novel. Set on a farm in Suffolk just before the Second World War, it introduces a girl on the cusp of adulthood.  Fourteen-year-old Edie Mather lives with her family at Wych Farm, where the shadow of the Great War still hangs over a community impoverished by the Great Depression. Glamorous outsider Constance FitzAllen arrives from London, determined to make a record of fading rural traditions and beliefs, and to persuade Edie's family to return to the old ways rather than embrace modernity. She brings with her new political and social ideas –...

Title: Hungry Gods Author: Richa Lakhera Published on:  20th July 2018 Publisher:  Rupa Publications Binding: Paperback ISBN:  978-9353040796 BLURB Beaten and brutally raped, her body is never found. However, the killers make one mistake. They leave a witness, a witness who has nothing to live for except revenge. And when he crosses the boundaries of time to make the guilty pay, a whole lot of dark characters come to light. There is Valentine, the superstar brand ambassador who sells anything for a price; there is Medici, a pharmaceutical company fraudulently manufacturing banned drugs; there is the perverted and sinister minded Dr Ranga, and there is Este, the prostitute whose dark secret will blow up a daughter’s sanity. So, is there another murder waiting to happen? Will Police Inspector Dorab Silva be able to connect the clues to prevent another crime? Will these gods of greed be exposed? And yes, you will be surprised by who you will fi...