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Shakespeare Is Hard, But So Is Life – Fintan O-Toole

Published By: ApolloPages: 208Released On: 06/06/2024 The works of Shakespeare have become staples of literature. They are everywhere, from our early schooling to the lecture rooms of academia, from classic theatre to modern adaptations on stage and screen. But how well do we really know his plays? In this witty, iconoclastic book, the bestselling authorContinue reading “Shakespeare Is Hard, But So Is Life – Fintan O-Toole”

Moonstone – Laura Purcell

Published By: MagpiePages: 400Released On: 23/05/2024 Don’t misbehave. Beware the moon. And never go out after dark . . . Following a scandal at the Vauxhall pleasure gardens, Camille is sent to the woods to live with her reclusive godmother and her strange daughter, Lucy. Cast out from polite society, she must learn to live by herContinue reading “Moonstone – Laura Purcell”

Wild Treasures: A Year of Extraordinary Encounters with Cornwall’s Wildlife – Hannah Stitfall

Published By: GaiaPages: 272Released On: 25/04/2024 Hannah Stitfall is a TV presenter and zoologist, who regularly gets up in the early hours of the morning to try and catch sight of some of Cornwall’s best hidden wildlife. She will spend hours on end waiting for a creature to appear among a hedgerow, scurrying across Cornwall’sContinue reading “Wild Treasures: A Year of Extraordinary Encounters with Cornwall’s Wildlife – Hannah Stitfall”

Hunted – Abir Mukherjee

Published By: Harvill SeckerPages: 354Released On: 16/05/2024 It’s a week before the presidential elections when a bomb goes off in an LA shopping mall. In London, armed police storm Heathrow Airport and arrest Sajid Khan. His daughter, Aliyah entered the USA with the suicide bomber, and now she’s missing, potentially plotting another attack on AmericanContinue reading “Hunted – Abir Mukherjee”

Barbara Havelocke

The first thing you need to know about me is that I have two names! As Barbara Havelocke, I’ve got my debut historical fiction coming out, a story inspired by the characters of Great Expectations. I also write psychological thrillers as Barbara Copperthwaite. I started out writing as a journalist, first on my local weeklyContinue reading “Barbara Havelocke”

House of Shades – Lianne Dillsworth

Published By: Hutchinson HeinemannPages: 400Released On: 16/05/2024 London, 1833Doctress Hester Reeves has been offered a life-changing commission.But it comes at a price. She must leave behind her husband and their canal-side home in Kings Cross and move to Tall Trees – a dark and foreboding house in Fitzrovia.If Hester can cure the ailing health ofContinue reading “House of Shades – Lianne Dillsworth”

The Book of Witty Women – Various Authors

Published By: FarragoPages: 352Released On: 25/04/2024 The Book of Witty Women showcases the very best in humorous short story writing, by outstanding contemporary women writers, including Kathy Lette, Sadia Azmat, Lucy Vine, Josie Long, Paula Lennon, and many more. It includes the winning and shortlisted stories from the Comedy Women in Print Short Story Prize. FromContinue reading “The Book of Witty Women – Various Authors”

The Ministry of Time – Kaliane Bradley

Published By: SceptrePages: 368Released On: 14/05/2024 A boy meets a girl.The past meets the future.A finger meets a trigger.The beginning meets the end.England is forever. England must fall. In the near future, a disaffected civil servant is offered a lucrative job in a mysterious new government ministry gathering ‘expats’ from across history to test theContinue reading “The Ministry of Time – Kaliane Bradley”

Hold Back The Night – Jessica Moor

Published By: Manilla PressPages: 256Released On: 09/05/2024 March 2020. Annie is alone in her house as the world shuts down, only the ghosts of her memories for company. But then she receives a phone call which plunges her deeper into the past. 1959. Annie and Rita are student nurses at Fairlie Hall mental hospital. WorkingContinue reading “Hold Back The Night – Jessica Moor”

Old Girls Behaving Badly – Kate Galley

Published By: BoldwoodPages: 280Released On: 13/05/2024 Something old, something new, something stolen…? Gina Knight is looking forward to the prospect of retirement with her husband of forty-three years. Until, to her surprise, said husband decides he needs to ‘find himself’ – alone – and disappears to Santa Fe, leaving divorce papers in his wake. NowContinue reading “Old Girls Behaving Badly – Kate Galley”