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Linda Naughton Author Of Blackout Trail

From Linda's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Linda's 3 favorite reads in 2025

Linda Naughton Why Linda loves this book

The first half of the book was absolutely enthralling, packed with tense drama and emotional depictions of front-line medical care during the Vietnam War. The second half, after the main character returns home from war, drags a bit in places and fixates on some toxic relationships. Despite those rough patches, I picked it as a favorite this year for its unique take on the nurses' story, an often-overlooked part of history.

By Kristin Hannah ,

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62 authors picked The Women as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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The missing. The forgotten. The brave… The women.

From master storyteller Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds, comes the story of a turbulent, transformative era in America: the 1960s. The Women is that rarest of novels—at once an intimate portrait of a woman coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided by war and broken by politics, of a generation both fueled by dreams and lost on the battlefield.

“Women can be heroes, too.”

When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these unexpected…


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Aggressor by FX Holden,

It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.

The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

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Iona Whishaw Author Of Lightning Strikes the Silence

From Iona's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

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Iona's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Iona Whishaw Why Iona loves this book

Ann Cleeves never disappoints with the wonderful Vera Stanhope mysteries. This latest one is as moody and twisty turny as you could wish. Every thing you want in a British Mystery, with a detective as unusual and delightful as any you'll find on the pages of fiction.

By Ann Cleeves ,

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2 authors picked The Dark Wives as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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'Expertly plotted and mesmerising' - Mick Herron A local myth. A deadly threat. Vera Stanhope, star of ITV's Vera, returns for her most shocking case so far . . .


I can't see anything. It's as if this house is on its own in the world, as if I'm on my own in the world and nobody would care if I died . . .

When a body is found on the common outside Rosebank, an isolated care home for troubled teens, DI Vera Stanhope is called out to investigate. The victim is Josh, a staff member, who never showed…


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