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What the River Knows – Isabel Ibañez

Published By: HodderscapePages: 416Released On: 14/11/2023 Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century Buenos Aires, and like the rest of the world, the town is steeped in old world magic that’s been largely left behind or forgotten. Inez has everything a girl might want, except for the one thing sheContinue reading “What the River Knows – Isabel Ibañez”

Kate Foster

Born in Kent, Kate moved to the Gold Coast in Australia a decade ago. She is now a mother to three sons, and adores dogs. A self-confessed expert at Mario Kart – especially Yoshi in the Turbo Blooper – Kate dreams of owning a retirement sanctuary for old dogs in the mountains. Now an internationallyContinue reading “Kate Foster”

Water – John Boyne

Published By: DoubledayPages: 176Released On: 02/11/2023 The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the locals, she is Willow Hale, a solitary outsider escaping Dublin to live a hermetic existence in a small cottage, not a notorious woman on the run from her past. But scandalsContinue reading “Water – John Boyne”

The Ice Children – M.G Leonard

Published By: Macmillan Children’s BooksPages: 288Released On: 02/11/2023Reading Age: 9-11Illustrated By: Penny Neville-Lee At the stroke of midnight on the dawn of December, five-year-old Finn Albedo is found frozen in the city park standing on a pedestal of ice. His heart is beating, he is smiling serenely, but no one can wake him. Finn’s bigContinue reading “The Ice Children – M.G Leonard”

Nature Tales for Winter Nights – Nancy Campbell

Published By: Elliott & ThompsonPages: 272Released On: 12/10/2023 As the evenings draw in – a time of reckoning, rest and restoration – immerse yourself in this new seasonal anthology. Nature Tales for Winter Nights puts winter – rural, wild and urban – under the microscope and reveals its wonder. From the late days of autumn, through deepestContinue reading “Nature Tales for Winter Nights – Nancy Campbell”

The Sussex Pond Murder – Richard Sorapure

Pages: 363Released On: 20/07/2023 The Sussex Pond Murder centres upon the mysterious death of Michelle Gagneux, a French teacher at St Wilfrid’s Prep School for boys, who is found lifeless in the school pond in the winter of 1983. The story follows Michael Fletcher, a geography teacher who becomes entangled in the investigation. The police suspectContinue reading “The Sussex Pond Murder – Richard Sorapure”

Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year – Joanna Nell

Published By: Hodder and StoughtonPages: 336Released On: 02/11/2023 Heather Winterbottom has worked side by side with her husband as GPs in their idyllic rural practice for over forty years. But as the time comes to hang up their stethoscopes, the Winterbottoms discover that they have rather different visions of retirement . . .Heather dreams of exploringContinue reading “Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year – Joanna Nell”

Conversations With The Dead – Jim Bates

Pages: 335Released On: 04/08/2023 Jasmine “Jazzy” Jaspers is a ten-year-old albino who lives with his mother, an obese telephone sex worker. When his mother dies, Jazzy is sent to live with his grandparents on their farm in southwestern Minnesota. At his mother’s funeral, he meets and befriends his first dead person and it changes hisContinue reading “Conversations With The Dead – Jim Bates”

The Christmas Love Letters – Sue Moorcroft

Published By: AvonPages: 384Released On; 26/10/2023 The love letters were only the start of the story… Tucked into a crook of the Norfolk coast lies Nelson’s Bar – an idyllic village where time seems to stand still. Maddy Austen has called this beautiful spot home all her life, as had her husband Adey – untilContinue reading “The Christmas Love Letters – Sue Moorcroft”

The Ministry of Unladylike Activity 2: The Body in the Blitz – Robin Stevens

Published By: PuffinPages: 464Released On: 12/10/2023Reading Age: 8-13 March 1941. Britain is at war, and a secret agency called the Ministry of Unladylike Activity is training up children as spies – because grown-ups always underestimate them. Enter May, Eric and Nuala: courageous, smart, and the Ministry’s newest recruits.May’s big sister Hazel has arranged for them to stay on a quietContinue reading “The Ministry of Unladylike Activity 2: The Body in the Blitz – Robin Stevens”