Cherry Tree Bookswap

26/09/2026

Of course we feel giddy 🥰
Thanks to all the couples who love their choice of ethical souvenirs ###

24/09/2026

The Blind Years
Catherine Cookson
Bridget Gether's parents were killed in the wartime Blitz so she had lived with the Overmeers at Balderstone, their sprawling property in the Northumbrian countryside, since she was a child. Unaware that she had been manipulated into agreeing to marry their son Laurence, an encounter with Bruce Dickenson, the son of a neighbouring farmer, opened her eyes to the possibility that she might be making a serious mistake.
Although Bridget told herself she had loved Laurence for years, could she now trust him? Had he been seeing someone else all the time he had been courting her? She decided that there were sufficient grounds for doubt, so she called off the marriage.
However, she had reckoned without the formidable Overmeer family, whose desperate financial straits compelled them to take steps to protect their interests. As for Laurence, he could not forgive Bridget for the humiliation of rejection, so he made his own plans to punish her. But someone else was also planning revenge, the outcome of which would shake the very foundations of the Overmeer family.

24/09/2026

21/09/2026

The Naked Face
Sidney Sheldon
Hanson died quickly - with a knife in his back. Carol was next - covered with acid and trotured to death. Now it was Judd's turn - a New York psychoanalyst, he'd known them both.
Two faceless executioners on a murderous mission, searching for a secret Judd doesn't even have...
Sidney Sheldon's gripping first novel lay bare the hidden world of the analyst's couch - where murder and violence can hover dangerously close to the surface...

20/09/2026

Journey's End
Josephine Cox
Like a ghost from the past, she walked along th eplatform towards them...
It has been over 20 years since Vicky Maitland set foot on English soil. Twenty years since she left Liverpool with her 3 children, bound for a new life in America, leaving her beloved husband Barney behind.
But this long journey home is the hardest of all. She is here in search of the truth, afraid of what she may find. Why did Barney turn against his family so suddenly, so cruelly? Only her old friend Lucy Baker knows what happened. And Lucy promised Barney she would never tell his secret. Is it time she broke her silence and explained the events of so long ago?
A the past weighs heavily on Lucy's heart, other ghosts are stirring, intent on revenge. Will they finally catch up with Vicky and Lucy?

20/09/2026

In Between Dreams
Iman Verjee
Growing up in a sleepy Canadian town with parents who adore her, it's difficult to understand why Frances is the way she is. Friendless, manipulative and at times very cruel, she reveres her father, yet resents her mother. Aloof and strange, she is a mystery to all who know her.
Following a disastrous 14th birthday, and after her grandmother is found dead in the bathtub, Frances is sent away to boarding school. The Academy is an institution rife with teenage rivalry, secret rendezvous and budding friendships But it is also a place where routines, rules and boundaries are enforced. It is here - alone for the first time - that Frances is forced to confront the true nature of her fallacious, white-picket-fence life.
Intertwined with Frances's narrative is that of her father, whose own childhood was riddled with secrets and burdens. As the 2 stories morph into one, we discover the truth about a young girl entering adulthood under the smoky weight of a terrible secret; of a life stolen and rediscovered and the fluid, easily traversed boundary between perversity and normality.