Published By: Michael JosephPages: 368Released On: 27/03/2025 “Who are you, Miss Austen, but a young lady of little experience and no consequence?” Welcome to Kent, 1797. Following many years apart, Jane Austen is set to spend the summer with her estranged brother, Neddy. As heir to wealthy widow Mrs Knight’s fortune, it is imperative thatContinue reading “A Fortune Most Fatal – Jessica Bull”
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A Trial In Three Acts – Guy Morpuss
Published By: ViperPages: 416Released On: 06/03/2025 A trial is rather like a play. We wear our costumes. We perform to the audience. And on a good day no-one gets murdered. Six nights a week the cast of the smash-hit play Daughter of the Revolution performs to a sold-out audience. A thrilling story of forbidden marriageContinue reading “A Trial In Three Acts – Guy Morpuss”
Everyone in the Group Chat Dies – L.M Chilton
Published By: AriesPages: 368Released On: 13/03/2025 Kirby Cornell needs a break from everything: – Her crumbling flat in the sleepy town of Crowhurst (famous for its award-winning sausage rolls and a second-rate serial killer from the 90s).– Her dead-end job.– Her sleazy landlord.– Her slobbish housemates.– And, most of all, the terrible thing they all did.Continue reading “Everyone in the Group Chat Dies – L.M Chilton”
One Hundred Flowers – Genki Kawamura
Published By: BonnierPages: Released On: 13/03/2025Translator: Cathy Hirano The fragrance of a single stem in a vase.The shimmering reflection of fireworks in a lake.The quiet of a bookshop as evening falls.The feeling of opening a brand-new diary and beginning to write . Moments of beauty endure. But what happens when you begin to forget? YurikoContinue reading “One Hundred Flowers – Genki Kawamura”
Alive: An Alternative Anatomy – Gabriel Weston
Published By: Jonathan CapePages: 304Released On: 06/03/2025 What does it mean to live in a body? For Gabriel Weston, there was always something missing from the anatomy she was taught at medical school. Medicine teaches us how a body functions, but it doesn’t help us navigate the reality of living in one. As she becameContinue reading “Alive: An Alternative Anatomy – Gabriel Weston”
Hidden Treasure – Jessie Burton
Published By: Bloomsbury Children’s BookPages: 320Released On: 13/03/2025Reading Age: 9+ For the people who live on the banks of the Thames, the river is a living, breathing thing. It can take your treasures. It can hide your treasures. And, sometimes, it can give them back. Bo and Billy are two children who have never met.Continue reading “Hidden Treasure – Jessie Burton”
Murder at Gulls Nest – Jess Kidd
Published By: FaberPages: 336Released On: 13/03/2025 The first in a sparkling new 1950s seaside mystery series, featuring sharp-eyed former nun Nora Breen. Somewhere in the north, a religious community meets for Vespers. Here on the southeast coast, Nora Breen prepares for braised liver and a dining room full of strangers. After thirty years in aContinue reading “Murder at Gulls Nest – Jess Kidd”
The Strange Case of Jane O – Karen Thompson Walker
Published By: Manilla PressPages: 352Released On: 06/03/2025 If the one thing you can trust is your memory, what happens when you forget? A young woman, Jane O, arrives in a psychiatrist’s office. She’s been suffering a series of worrying episodes: amnesia, premonitions, hallucinations and an inexplicable sense of dread. But as the psychiatrist struggles toContinue reading “The Strange Case of Jane O – Karen Thompson Walker”
The Fisherman’s Gift – Julia Kelly
Published By: Harvill SeckerPages: 368Released On: 06/03/2025 Winter, 1900. A little boy washes up on the beach of a small fishing village in Scotland, barely alive. He bears an uncanny resemblance to teacher Dorothy’s son, lost to the sea many years before. When the village is snowed in, Dorothy agrees to look after the childContinue reading “The Fisherman’s Gift – Julia Kelly”
Greedy Guts – Gina Tonic
Published By: CoronetPages: 224Released On: 06/03/2025 Nobody talks about the nuances of life as a fat woman. To navigate friendship, careers, sex and chairs with handles in a body bigger than those around you. Growing up fat, working class and happy in the depths of South Wales, Gina Tonic was raised in one of theContinue reading “Greedy Guts – Gina Tonic”