Tuesdays at the Teacup Club

She's an aspiring dog-owner, so when she's not writing, she might well be following golden retrievers round her local park trying to make friends with them. Vanessa's first novel, The Vintage Teacup Club , published to rave reader reviews and won an instant place in their hearts. They are the guardians of the vogue ball community - queer men who opened their hearts and homes to countless lost Children, providing safe spaces for them to explore their true selves.

Through epochs of city nightlife, from draconian to liberal, the Children have been going missing; their absences ignored by the authorities and uninvestigated by the police. In a final act of dissent the Mothers have come to pray: Watching from City Hall's windows is city clerk, Teddy.

Raised by the Mothers, he is now charged with brokering an uneasy truce. With echoes of James Baldwin, Marilynne Robinson and Rachel Kushner, Niven Govinden asks what happens when a generation remembered for a single, lavish decade has been forced to grow up, and what it means to be a parent in a confused and complex society. In Belgravia in the heat of summer, Lee Jones, a faded and embittered rock star, is checking out a group of women through the heavy cigarette smoke in a crowded pub.

He makes eye contact with one, and winks. After allowing glances to linger for a while longer, he finally moves towards her. In that moment, his programme of terror - years in the making - has begun. Months later, the first of the many chilling headlines to come appears: Charles Underhill, a wealthy Englishman living in Paris, has good reason to be interested in the activities of the so-called Winking Killer.

With a past to hide and his future precarious, Charles is determined to discover the Winker's identity. In the overheating cities of London, Oxford, Paris and Nice, a game of cat and mouse develops, and catching someone's eye becomes increasingly perilous. But if no one dares look, a killer can hide in plain sight. From 'a master of historical crime fiction' The Guardian , The Winker is a gripping thriller that won't let you look away. It is twenty-five years since Peach did the things she did that summer.

Things that have kept her distant from her family and left her alone in London, a woman caught between effacing and flourishing. So when she is woken one night with news that her father is in intensive care she only knows one thing clearly: As Peach tries to confront the crisis at hand and endure her sister's brittle accusations, her brother's simmering resentment, her mother's passive fury - the line between past and present starts to dissolve, taking her fragile sense of adult self with it.

Spiked with dark humour and written with caustic energy, This Is Yesterday is a story of memory and the body; of art and desire; about the bracing ambivalence of familial love. It is a story of becoming. From one of Elle magazine's 'authors to watch' comes a suspenseful and emotionally fraught novel about how little we really know the person we marry.

For fans of The Affair and Dr Foster. Every woman has a secret Everyone admires Suzy and her doll's house life. She has a gorgeous family, a beautiful home and a successful business. But Suzy hasn't always been in control. In her past lies a shadowy tale of fear and instability - a life that she once ran away from, and has hidden from ever since. When Suzy starts being followed, she fears that her past many finally be catching up on her. And when she finds herself unable to do what to her is the most important thing - keep her loved ones safe - she has to decide how far she'd be willing to go to win everything back.

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Even if it means sacrificing everything she knows and loves Praise for Cath Weeks: Upon publication in , Corregidora was hailed as a masterpiece, winning acclaim from writers including James Baldwin, Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison. Exploring themes such as race, sexuality and the long repercussions of slavery, this powerful novel paved the way for Beloved and The Colour Purple.

Now, this lost classic is published for a new generation of readers. After a tragic loss, Ursa, a Kentucky blues singer, confronts her maternal history and the legacy of Corregidora, the Brazilian slave owner who fathered both her mother and grandmother. Consumed and haunted by her hatred of the man who irrevocably shaped the lives of her family, Ursa must come to terms with a past that is never too distant from the present.

A tautly plotted mystery of dark family secrets, perfect for fans of Kate Morton. A beautiful read that delivers a shocking and satisfying ending' Liv Constantine, bestselling author of The Last Mrs ParrishSeraphine Mayes and her brother Danny are known as the summer-born Summerbournes: But on the day they were born their mother threw herself to her death, their au pair fled, and the village thrilled with whispers of dark-cloaked figures and a stolen baby. Now twenty-five, and mourning the recent death of her father, Seraphine uncovers a family photograph taken on the day the twins were born featuring both parents posing with just one baby.

Seraphine soon becomes fixated with the notion that she and Danny might not be twins after all, that she wasn't the baby born that day and that there was more to her mother's death than she has ever been told Why did their beloved au pair flee that day? Where is she now? Does she hold the key to what really happened? This is a book to read for pleasure, rather than merely refer to. Combining fast-paced witty memoir with passionately opinionated guide, Oz pops the cork on his life-long love affair with wine. The best loved wine communicator of our time, Oz Clarke is the guest you want at your table, the person to select the wine, and the ideal drinking companion.

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Oz reveals how he tastes wine and how you can enjoy wine whatever the budget. And hundreds of local grape varieties, until recently facing extinction, are also being rediscovered. In our lives we'll meet something like eighty thousand people. Most of them just in passing, sitting beside them on a bus, buying a latte from them, overtaking them too fast on the motorway.

Others will become friends, lovers, family. Some will stay in our lives forever, and some will be swept away by the flow of life. But we touch all of these people in some way, tiny or huge, making more of a difference that any of us can imagine. Rosie is in a coma, unable to reach out to the world or communicate. Return to Book Page. Tuesdays at the Teacup Club by Vanessa Greene. The children's books Jenny writes and illustrates from her countryside studio are doing well, and after a lifetime of looking after everyone else, she's finally putting herself first.

Meanwhile, Maggie's ordered world is thrown into chaos when her baby son Leo arrives. Candlelit baths have made way for endless night feeds, and she and partner Owen are struggling to find any time for themselves. It's been a long year of financial sacrifice, but working-mum Alison has fulfilled her dream at last - she is now the proud co-owner of a cafe and art gallery. But when Alison's happiness is threatened and news from home shocks Jenny back to reality, the women must band together. Suddenly their friendship is more important than ever. In this digital-exclusive short story, Vanessa Greene revisits the characters we first fell in love with in" The Vintage Teacup Club.

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To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Tuesdays at the Teacup Club , please sign up. Be the first to ask a question about Tuesdays at the Teacup Club. Lists with This Book. Seven months and about fifty books later I found myself running into Tuesdays at the Teacup Club. And you know what? It felt like coming home to old friends. One would expect their personalities to have faded a bit due to time, but it was like I had never said goodbye, or see you later , in the first place.

I do believe this says a lot about how skilled Vanessa Greene is. I wouldn't mind working with Alison. I absolutely love what she and Jamie have done with the place. Oct 28, Maria rated it really liked it. I had read the first book in this series, and wanted to read the next one as I enjoyed reading about Alison, Jen, and Maggie's adventures. This short story was to the point, as it described how Alison decided on creating a Tuesday night movie gathering at her tea shop, while getting other businesses in the neighbourhood involved.

Maggie struggled with raising her son Stan, while jugging her career at the flower shop. Jen dealt with her brother's recent illness, and grapples with whether to tell I had read the first book in this series, and wanted to read the next one as I enjoyed reading about Alison, Jen, and Maggie's adventures. Jen dealt with her brother's recent illness, and grapples with whether to tell his girlfriend, Chloe, or not. I enjoyed reading about how the various characters intertwined with one another, and offered support through the difficult times that ensued. I felt as though I was a part of their friendship circle, as they discussed solutions to their various issues.

It made me want to open up a tea shop and start my own teacup club! Aug 02, Ann rated it it was ok. I bought this for my Kindle as a 'daily deal', there was nothing of a 'deal' about it! It was a short story not worth more than the 99p. I will have to be more careful in future, feeling a bit let down. This novella has left me wanting more and looking forward to the Christmas book,. Aug 25, Naomi Cherow rated it it was amazing. I love following these beautiful characters!!

Oct 20, Obsidian rated it liked it.

I absolutely adored the first book and the characters of Jenny, Maggie, and Allison. It is a year after the events in the first book. We now have Jenny getting ready to go on tour as a children's book author. Maggie is still dealing with being a new mother to her son Leo and a partner to Owen. Alison is happy since she is now a co-owner of the cafe and art gallery that her best friend started in the last novel.

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I am sad to say that though I loved the first book this short story by Vanessa Greene really did not work for me. I think the problem was that she had three distinct story-lines going on and everything was happening at a breakneck pace. We had Jenny trying to deal with her brother's secret; Maggie trying to keep her sanity due to having a newborn; and Alison worrying about the new coffee house that opened up across the street from her cafe.

The three women barely had any scenes together and none of the story-lines were meshed well. I think this should have just been a full fledged novel so that Vanessa Greene could have fully fleshed out everything and not had all of the plots wrap up in a nice tidy bow after 48 pages. I hope that if she revisits these characters in a future novel it is a full length novel so we can get enough time to enjoy all of the characters.