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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”

The Green Kingdom – Cornelia Funke and Tammi Hartung

Published By: DK ChildrenPages: 224Released: 06/03/2025Illustrated By: Melissa Castrillon Twelve-year-old Caspia hates big cities, especially one as busy as New York. So she isn’t thrilled by the news that her parents are taking her to stay in Brooklyn. It’s summer-devouring bad luck! But everything changes when Caspia discovers a bundle of letters, hidden in anContinue reading “The Green Kingdom – Cornelia Funke and Tammi Hartung”

Broken Country – Clare Leslie Hall

Published By: John MurrayPages: 320Released On: 04/03/2025 Everyone in the village said nothing good would come of Gabriel’s return. And as Beth looks at the man she loves on trial for murder, she can’t help think they were right. She was seventeen when she’d first met Gabriel. Over that heady, intense summer, he made herContinue reading “Broken Country – Clare Leslie Hall”

Sycorax – Nydia Hetherington

Published By: QuercusPages: 400Released On: 27/02/2025 Born of the sun and moon, shaped by fire and malady, comes a young woman whose story has never been told . . . They call her Sycorax. Seer. Sage. Sorceress. Outcast by society and all alone in the world, Sycorax must find a way to understand her trueContinue reading “Sycorax – Nydia Hetherington”

The Lamplighter’s Bookshop – Sophie Austin

Published By: HarperCollinsPages: 368Released On: 01/03/2025 In the shadowy aisles of The Lamplighter’s Bookshop, secrets lie as thick as the dust … When Evelyn Seaton answers an advertisement for an assistant at a forgotten bookshop in York, she is not the only one with something to hide. There she meets the enigmatic and prickly WilliamContinue reading “The Lamplighter’s Bookshop – Sophie Austin”