Sincerely, Me: 2023’s most feel-good read from the Richard and Judy Book Club author

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There are some great choices for the Richard and Judy Book Club 2022 March List. I definitely want to read The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah as I love her books, especially The Nightingale. I’m also intrigued by The Funny Thing About Norman Foreman. Other books mentioned during this episode include: The Stand by Stephen King, This Is Going To Hurt by Adam Kay and The Fear Bubble: Harness Fear and Live Without Limits by Ant Middleton.

All titles are available to reserve from Wokingham Libraries, and most are also available as ebooks. It is only as the night of an ancient and mysterious family ritual looms closer that Janey comes to realise they need her . . . Who knows you better than your best friend? Who knows your secrets, your fears, your desires, your strange imperfect self? Three women, connected by one brutal crime. Three women, determined to right the wrongs done to them. Three women, with everything to hide. When it comes to revenge, even good people are capable of terrible things. But only one person killed Daniel Sutherland. How long can their secrets smoulder, before they explode into flame?Here are all six books chosen for the Richard and Judy Book Club List July 2022. Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty CCTV footage captures Cate and Aiden Gascoigne driving home seconds before their car plunges into a ravine and explodes. When his wife Brie vanishes from their home one night, never to be seen again, people assume Andy got away with murder. The police can’t build a case against him, but still his friends and neighbours abandon him.

The new Summer collection for the Richard and Judy Book Club is here! Read on for all the details of the latest choices…and reserve your copy from Wokingham Libraries. Ten seconds before the crash, Cate and Aiden Gascoigne are recorded on CCTV. The couple are laughing – happy, untroubled. Then their car plunges into a ninety-foot ravine. The impact should kill them. And if that doesn’t, the fire will. Within seconds, the vehicle is an inferno – with the Gascoignes trapped inside. But when fire crews arrive at the scene, they find something impossible. The vehicle is empty. Cate and Aiden have vanished. Now only missing persons investigator David Raker can solve the mystery.

Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his new wife, Hannah: protect her. Hannah knows exactly who Owen needs her to protect – his sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. And who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. As her increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, his boss is arrested for fraud and the police start questioning her, Hannah realises that her husband isn’t who he said he was. And that Bailey might hold the key to discovering Owen’s true identity, and why he disappeared. Together they set out to discover the truth. But as they start putting together the pieces of Owen’s past, they soon realise that their lives will never be the same again. Georgie, Lissa and Bronwyn have been best friends since they met on their college swimming team. Now Lissa is dead – drowned off the coast of the remote island where her second husband owns a luxury resort. But could a star open-water swimmer really have drowned? Or is something more sinister going on? Here are all six books chosen for the Richard and Judy Book Club 2022 March List: I Have To Tell You Something by Susan Lewis Soon, the state will decide that Frida is not fit to care for her daughter. That she must be re-trained. That bad mothers everywhere will be re-educated. Will their mistakes cost them everything?

Frida Liu had fed and changed her toddler Harriet. She had a work deadline – an article to finish, a job hanging by a thread, a file she’d left in the office. She would go get it. Harriet would be fine. But then the neighbours heard her crying. While on a family holiday in Italy, Joe and Cathy Plant receive an urgent phone call from their sister Frannie. There’s been an accident and a man is dead. When she asks for their help, they know what they need to do. She would have covered for them, so they do the same for her and help bury the body. As the hunt intensifies, Emma knows that she is in mortal danger. And that she needs to find the traitor before they find her . . . We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine NewmanGeorgie, Lissa and Bronwyn have been best friends since they met on their college swimming team. Now Lissa is dead – drowned off the coast of the remote island where her second husband owns a luxury resort. But could a star open-water swimmer really have drowned? Or is something more sinister going on? Brought together for Lissa’s memorial, Georgie, Bron, Lissa’s grieving husband and their friends find themselves questioning the circumstances around Lissa’s death – and each other. As the weather turns ominous, trapping the guests on the island, it slowly dawns on them that Lissa’s death was only the beginning. Nobody knows who they can trust. Or if they’ll make it off the island alive.

She’s tried so hard to bury the past, to protect her family. But witching hour loves a secret – and Emma’s is the stuff of nightmares . . . The Midnight House by Amanda Geard When Matty is eventually sent down for multiple murder, questions remain as to his guilt — questions which ultimately destroy both women. Nearly twenty years later, Sophie receives a letter from Battlemouth Prison informing her Matty is dying and wants to meet. It looks like Sophie might finally get the answers she craves. But will the truth set her free — or bury her deeper? Insomnia by Sarah Pinborough The books featured on the 2022 list were a great mix of authors and genres. I’m always excited to discover new books that I might not otherwise have been aware of. William decides he must act, so he stands and volunteers to attend. It will be his first job as an embalmer, and it will be one he never forgets.

Five years ago, Olivia Sutherland was convicted of plotting to murder her husband. Now she’s finally free, Olivia has three goals. Repair her relationship with her teenage daughter. Clear her name. And bring down her husband – the man who framed her. Just how far is she willing to go to get what she wants? And how far will her husband go to stop her? Because his lies run deeper than Olivia could ever have imagined – and this time it’s not her freedom that’s in jeopardy, but her life.