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Wrong Place Wrong Time – Gillian Mcallister

Published By: Penguin Michael JosephPages: 400Released On: 12/05/2022 It’s every parent’s nightmare. Your happy, funny, innocent son commits a terrible crime: murdering a complete stranger. You don’t know who. You don’t know why. You only know your teenage boy is in custody and his future lost. That night you fall asleep in despair. Until youContinue reading “Wrong Place Wrong Time – Gillian Mcallister”

The Half Life of Snails – Philippa Holloway

Published By: ParthianPages: 375Released On: 07/05/2022 Two sisters, two nuclear power stations, one child caught in the middle. When Helen, a self-taught prepper and single mother, leaves her young son Jack with her sister for a few days so she can visit Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone, they both know the situation will be tense. Helen opposesContinue reading “The Half Life of Snails – Philippa Holloway”

The Little Cornish House – Donna Ashcroft

Published By: BookouturePages: 263Released On: 06/05/2022 Thirty-year-old Ruby’s life is safe and predictable: no dramas, no complications, no men. And that’s just the way she likes it – there’s no way she wants to get her heart broken again. But her whole life is turned upside down when her grandmother calls to say she’s inContinue reading “The Little Cornish House – Donna Ashcroft”

Revenge of the Space Surfing Butt Monkeys- CD Gallant-King

Pages: 328Released On: 03/05/2022 Newfoundland, Canada, 1993. It’s been a year since a handful of kids defeated the Psycho Hose Beast in the sleepy town of Gale Harbour, Newfoundland. Our heroes have entered into the era of rollerblades, Super Nintendo and oversized plaid shirts… unless you’re a goth, then it’s the era of Maybelline eyeliner,Continue reading “Revenge of the Space Surfing Butt Monkeys- CD Gallant-King”

Hide – Kiersten White

Published By: Del RayPages: 236Released On: 24/05/2022 The challenge: spend a week hiding in an abandoned amusement park and don’t get caught.The prize: enough money to change everything. Even though everyone is desperate to win – to seize their dream futures or escape their haunting pasts – Mack feels sure that she can beat herContinue reading “Hide – Kiersten White”

This is Not a Pity Memoir – Abi Morgan

Published By: John MurrayPages: 304Released On: 12/05/2022 One morning in June, Abi had her to-do list – drop the kids to school, get coffee and go to work. Jacob had a bad headache so she added ’pick up steroids’. She returned home and found the man she loved and fought and laughed with for twentyContinue reading “This is Not a Pity Memoir – Abi Morgan”

That Green Eyed Girl – Julie Owen Moylan

Published By: Michael JosephPages: 400Released On: 12/05/2022 1955: In an apartment on the Lower East Side, school teachers Dovie and Gillian live as lodgers. Dancing behind closed curtains, mixing cocktails for two, they guard their private lives fiercely. Until someone guesses the truth . . . 1975: Twenty years later in the same apartment, Ava Winters isContinue reading “That Green Eyed Girl – Julie Owen Moylan”

Medusa – Jessie Burton

Published By: BloomsburyPages: 224Released On: 28/10/2021 Exiled to a far-flung island by the whims of the gods, Medusa has little company except the snakes that adorn her head instead of hair. But when a charmed, beautiful boy called Perseus arrives on the island, her lonely existence is disrupted with the force of a supernova, unleashingContinue reading “Medusa – Jessie Burton”

The Real Kenneth Graham – Elisabeth Galvin

Published By: White Owl/Pen & SwordPages: 190Released On: 17/12/2021 He wrote one of the most quintessentially English books, yet Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) was a Scot. He was four years old when his mother died and his father became an alcoholic, so Kenneth grew up with his grandmother who lived on the banks of the belovedContinue reading “The Real Kenneth Graham – Elisabeth Galvin”

The Birdcage – Eve Chase

Published By: Penguin Michael JosephPages: 400Released On: 28/04/2022 Lauren, Kat and Flora are half-sisters who share a famous artist father – and a terrible secret. Over the years they’ve lived wildly different lives, but their father has unexpectedly summoned them to Rock Point, the cliff house where they once sat for his most celebrated painting,Continue reading “The Birdcage – Eve Chase”