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Actually I’m a Murderer – Terry Deary

Published By: ConstablePages: 352Released On: 12/06/2025 Four strangers on a train. An unlikely introduction: ‘Actually, I’m a murderer.’ It is 1973 and the lives of four people are thrown into turmoil when sharing a carriage with an unremarkable little man with glasses, on the night train back to Newcastle. By the end of the followingContinue reading “Actually I’m a Murderer – Terry Deary”

Wish You Were Her – Elle McNicoll

Published By: First InkPages: 352Released On: 05/06/2025Reading Age: 12+ Eighteen-year-old Allegra Brooks has skyrocketed to fame after starring in a hit television show, and she’s the overnight success that everyone’s talking about. They just don’t know she’s autistic. Now, all she wants is a normal teenage summer. Her destination for escape is the remote LakeContinue reading “Wish You Were Her – Elle McNicoll”

Julie Tudor Is Not a Psychopath – Jennifer Holdich

Published By: Hodder & Stoughton Pages: 320Released On: 05/06/2025 Julie Tudor is Not a Psychopath.Julie Tudor is 49 and has it all: a fantastic job (well-maintained spreadsheets are the lynchpin of an efficient office), a beautiful house (some may wonder how she got the money for it, but nothing has been proved) and the manContinue reading “Julie Tudor Is Not a Psychopath – Jennifer Holdich”

A Novel Murder – E.C Nevin

Published By: ZaffrePages: 336Released On: 19/06/2025 Welcome to the Killer Lines Crime Festival! In the quaint town of Hoslewit, the biggest names in crime writing have congregated to celebrate all things bookish and murderous. With a programme packed with seminars and signings, egos and alcohol, it’s sure to be a thrilling weekend. Author Jane HepburnContinue reading “A Novel Murder – E.C Nevin”

The Wizard’s Bakery – Gu Byeong-mo

Published By: WildfirePages: 256Released On: 05/06/2025Translated By: Jamie Chang ‘Don’t we all need a little magic in our lives sometimes?’ Open twenty-four hours a day, at first glance The Wizard’s Bakery seems like any ordinary bakery where you can buy bread, cakes, and cookies, with a somewhat grumpy man behind the counter. At first glance,Continue reading “The Wizard’s Bakery – Gu Byeong-mo”

The World’s Worst Alien – Alice Primmer

Published By: WalkerPages: 224Released On: 05/06/2025Reading Age: 9-12 When alien “Sky” creates planet Earth as part of a school project, she’s delighted by her success. Those dinosaurs roaming about the place are top-mark material! Then humans sweep in and it’s farewell dinosaurs, hello destruction. This disappointing evolutionary twist calls for drastic measures: Sky, the laziestContinue reading “The World’s Worst Alien – Alice Primmer”

The Future of Gardens – Mark Lane

Published By: Melville HousePages: 160Released On: 15/05/2025 As our world continues to change, the gardeners of the future will face many obstacles and dilemmas: from adjusting our practices to less predictable weather conditions and tighter ar – eas, to finding a happy coexistence with AI as it becomes more prevalent in our digital and physicalContinue reading “The Future of Gardens – Mark Lane”

Into the Fire – G.D Wright

Published By: AvonPages: 448Released On: 05/06/2025 HE RUNS INTO THE FLAMES A HERO. HE EMERGES FROM THE ASHES A SUSPECT. Steve thought he had left his troubled past behind. Living a quiet life with his wife and children, everything changes the night he rescues a baby from a burning house, becoming an unexpected national hero.Continue reading “Into the Fire – G.D Wright”

The Mourning Necklace – Kate Foster

Published By: MantlePages: 304Released On: 29/05/2025 They said I would swing for the crime and I did. I wear the rope-bruise like a necklace. 1724. In a tavern just outside Edinburgh, Maggie Dickson’s family drown their sorrows, mourning her death yet relieved she is gone. Shame haunts them. Hanged for the murder of her newbornContinue reading “The Mourning Necklace – Kate Foster”

The Chemist – A.A Dhand

Published By: HQPages: 432Released On: 22/05/2025 Local pharmacist and pillar of the community, Idris Khan, spends his days doling out methadone to the hundreds of addicts in his care. They trust Idris with their secrets, and so he knows more than his mild manner suggests. So when his childhood sweetheart, Rebecca, doesn’t turn up forContinue reading “The Chemist – A.A Dhand”