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The powerful and page-turning new novel from number one Sunday Times bestseller, Clare Mackintosh. If you loved Jojo Moyes' Will and Lou then you will adore Clare Mackintosh's Max and Pip! Max and Pip are the strongest couple you know. Only now they're facing the most important decision of their lives - and they don't agree. As the consequences of an impossible choice threaten to devastate them both, nothing will ever be the same again. Join Chorleywood Bookshop and bestselling…

'Such a beautiful book. Captures perfectly a moment in time we've all experienced.' Graham Norton One life-changing summer Sixteen-year-old Charlie meets Fran... Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you don't remember in the school photograph. His exams have not gone well. At home he is looking after his father, when surely it should be the other way round, and if he thinks about the future at all, it is with a kind of dread. Then Fran Fisher bursts into…

In the summer of 1940, Britain stood perilously close to invasion. One by one, the nations of Europe had fallen to the unstoppable German Blitzkrieg, and Hitler’s sights were set on the English coast. And yet, following the success of the Battle of Britain, the promised invasion never came. The prospect of German jackboots landing on British soil retreated into the realm of collective nightmares. But the spectre of what might have been is one that has haunted us down…

Join Chorleywood Bookshop and the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Tulip Fever, Deborah Moggach for a deliciously funny, poignant night out as we celebrate her heartwarming, wry and funny new novel 'The Carer'! James is getting on a bit and needs full-time help. So Phoebe and Robert, his middle-aged offspring, employ Mandy, who seems willing to take him off their hands. But as James regales his family with tales of Mandy's virtues, their shopping trips, and…

Chorleywood Bookshop invites you to an evening of Summer fiction! Join Catherine Alliott & Fanny Blake at Chenies Manor House for a Pimms, nibbles and two fantastic summer reads! Fanny Blake's 'A Summer Reunion' begins with one perfect villa, four old friends, and a holiday that will change everything... As the four friends gather, secrets are unearthed, old scores settled and new friendships forged. Will this holiday bring them together or tear them apart? And will each of them grasp…

Philippa Gregory aka the Queen of historical fiction is returning to Chorleywood! England 1648. A dangerous time for a woman to be different . . . Midsummer’s Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament.  The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even to the remote Tidelands – the marshy landscape of the south coast. Alinor, a descendant of wise women, crushed by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under…

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman and sometimes it's time to be a hard woman . . . This is a book for all those times. Once upon a (very very) long time ago Jo Brand was what you might describe as 'a nice little girl'. Of course, that was before the values of cynicism, misogyny and the societal expectation that Jo would be thin, feminine and demure sent her off down Arsey Avenue. The plot thickened, when due…