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All the Little Liars – Victoria Selman

Published By: QuercusPages: 384Released On: 31/08/2023 What REALLY happened at Turtle Lake? You think you know. Think again. California, 2003: A thirteen-year-old girl disappears from a party at Carlsbad’s Turtle Lake. Discovered on the trunk of a nearby cottonwood tree is the word LIAR graffitied in blood. What you know – three teenagers went toContinue reading “All the Little Liars – Victoria Selman”

Samantha Baines

Samantha Baines is an award-winning comedian, actress, broadcaster and a bestselling author of non-fiction, and children’s fiction. She is a deaf activist and wears hearing aids, and often creates deaf protagonists, such as in Harriet Versus the Galaxy, and The Night the Moon Went Out. In 2023, she published Living With Hearing Loss and Deafness,Continue reading “Samantha Baines”

Alecia Gabrielle

Alecia Gabrielle is an American poet and member of the Mississippi Poetry Society. Having written poetry since she was 12 years old, Alecia’s debut collection Afterglow Effect was released in 2020 – a second edition was published earlier this year. In 2023, she released Man-Made Motion Sickness. She has new projects in the works, andContinue reading “Alecia Gabrielle”

More Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up – Alexandra Potter

Published By: MacmillanPages: 512Released On: 17/08/2023 There is no magical land you finally arrive at where everything is figured out, fixed and sorted. Life, like us, is a sum of moving parts, and if we’re lucky, we get to keep f**king up, figuring it out and laughing in the face of it all. Nell’s back.Continue reading “More Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up – Alexandra Potter”

What You Are Looking For Is In The Library – Michiko Aoyama

Published By: DoubledayPages: 256Released On: 17/08/2023Translated By: Alison Watts What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo’s most enigmatic librarian to the visitors in her library. For Sayuri Komachi is no ordinary librarian. Sensing exactly what someone is searching for in life, she provides just the book recommendation to help them find it.We meet fiveContinue reading “What You Are Looking For Is In The Library – Michiko Aoyama”

Gail Aldwin

Novelist, poet and scriptwriter, Gail Aldwin has been writing for over a decade. Her first two coming-of-age novels were shortlisted in the Dorchester Literary Festival Writing Prize 2020 and 2022. Gail was awarded a creative writing PhD in 2018 and still laughs whenever she’s called Doctor Gail. She has appeared at Bridport Literary Festival, StockholmContinue reading “Gail Aldwin”

Laura Noakes

Laura Noakes grew up in Bedfordshire in a home full of books. She loved books so much that she went to three universities after school, and graduated with a PhD in Legal History in 2021. Writing stories is her first love. She has Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder, a disability that she shares with her main character,Continue reading “Laura Noakes”

The Last List of Mabel Beaumont – Laura Pearson

Published By: BoldwoodPages: 310Released On: 04/08/2023 The list he left had just one item on it. Or, at least, it did at first. Mabel Beaumont’s husband Arthur loved lists. He’d leave them for her everywhere. ‘Remember: eggs, butter, sugar’. ‘I love you: today, tomorrow, always’. But now Arthur is gone. He died: softly, gently, notContinue reading “The Last List of Mabel Beaumont – Laura Pearson”

The Hardest Thing to Keep – Sabina Green

Pages: 296Released On: 01/08/2023 The entire human race is wiped out to just a few hundred survivors… will civilization be saved or doomed?In the wake of a devastating plague, humanity’s fate hangs in the balance, manipulated by a ruthless faction hungry for power. Having been caught right in the middle of the crossfire, Ruby’s lifeContinue reading “The Hardest Thing to Keep – Sabina Green”

Over My Dead Body – Maz Evans

Published By: HeadlinePages: 320Released On: 03/08/2023 Hello? Can you hear me? Probably not. I’m Dr Miriam Price . . . and I’m dead. The local police, who couldn’t investigate their own nostrils, think I drank myself into an early grave. The nerve! I was murdered. I was just too plastered to know whodunnit, that’s all.UnlessContinue reading “Over My Dead Body – Maz Evans”