New Literary Fiction Book Recommendations | January 2022

13 Jan 2022

New Literary Fiction Book Recommendations | January 2022

Looking to add to your literary fiction list this January? Check out these new novels by these indie bestselling authors. Enjoy your new literary fiction book recommendations!

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Pan Pedro: One Boy’s Journey to America

by Michelle McNiff

Release Date: March 19, 2021

At the noble sacrifice of his parents, in 1961, Pedro and Pepe, his pet lizard, board an airplane to America. Leaving his family behind, he travels from the city of Havana to a rural farm in Iowa. The vivid imagination of one boy, flying away like Peter Pan with the loving care of a farmer and his wife, he learns English and takes on new chores. Will he ever reunite with his family again?

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To Love and Be Loved

by Amanda Prowse

Release Date: January 11, 2022

Young and desperately in love, Merrin had the whole world ahead of her. But just as her new life was about to start, the ground beneath her feet was cruelly swept away. Devastated by the humiliation, she ran far away from the beloved fishing village she had always called home to lick her wounds and escape her gossiping friends and neighbours. It hasn’t been easy, but six years later Merrin has forged a new life for herself far from the sea, burying the impulsive girl she once was. But when tragedy strikes, she has no choice but to return to the village she swore she’d never set foot in again.

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Get the Message (Accidentally in Love Book 1)

by Brynn North

Release Date: January 4, 2022

All’s fair in love, war, and baking contests. I’m desperate to save my party planning business. So desperate I agree to dress up as a dancing cucumber for my ex-boyfriend’s sons’ birthday party. Talk about lower than low. Then, I see an opportunity that may solve all our problems. $20,000 for winning a local version of The Great British Bake-Off? I’m in. So what if I’ve never actually baked anything? To save our business, I’m willing to read every baking book under the sun.

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Storm Clouds Over Byland Crescent

by (The Cowgill Family Saga Book 2)

Release Date: January 6, 2022

Sonny Cowgill is slowly regaining his memory. He was declared missing in action in the First World War, presumed dead. But Sonny’s beloved wife Rachel found him and brought him home. As he rebuilds his relationship with his wife and learns how to be a father to the son he never knew he had, memories begin to resurface. Sonny remembers something that the Cowgill family thought lost forever — the whereabouts of his eldest brother. James was disowned by their father and never seen again after he ran off with the housemaid. Can the family finally be reunited?

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The Italian Island

by Daniela Sacerdoti

Release Date: January 11, 2022

My darling girl, don’t make the same mistakes as I did. Now that my life is coming to an end, take your grandmother’s bracelet, unlock the secret of our family history, and discover who you are… An absolutely heart-wrenching page-turner about how the catastrophic consequences of war can echo through generations, and the power that true love has to save us all.

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Twice Royal Lady

by Hilary Green

England, 1100s. Meet Matilda of England. Betrothed at eight. Married at twelve. And crowned Empress in her late teens. Matilda is the only legitimate daughter of Henry I of England. She’s also the granddaughter of William the Conqueror and is a descendent — through her mother — from the ancient line of Anglo-Saxon kings. She is made a widow in her early twenties and is the only surviving heir to the throne of England. Now she must marry Geoffrey of Anjou, a boy ten years younger, and share the task of leading an often rebellious state.

Release Date: January 4, 2022

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