Published By: PenguinPages: 400Released On: 14/09/2023 Nineteen-year-old Phoebe and her widower father Al have recently moved to Devon, to a small cottage with a river at the end of the garden.Struggling with her own closely guarded issues, Phoebe doesn’t go out much. Instead, she spends her time at home, watching detective dramas and playing detective herself – trying toContinue reading “Life and Otter Miracles – Hazel Prior”
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The Spy’s Daughter – Bianca M. Schwarz
Published By: Central AvenuePages: 288Released On: 05/09/2023 Emily March, the illegitimate daughter of Sir Henry March, has all she needs: bountiful wealth, ample beauty, and abundant talent. But will this be enough to secure the one thing she truly wants: a loving marriage and her own family? However, it’s not her illegitimacy that stands inContinue reading “The Spy’s Daughter – Bianca M. Schwarz”
Assassin Eighteen – John Brownlow
Published By: Hodder and StoughtonPages: 480Released On: 15/08/2023 ‘I am waiting for someone to kill me. Tonight would be a good night for it.’Agent Seventeen, the most infamous hitman in the world, has quit. But whoever wants to become Assassin Eighteen must track him down and kill him first.So when a bullet hits the glassContinue reading “Assassin Eighteen – John Brownlow”
The Yorkshire Farm Girl – Diane Allen
Published By: PanPages: 320Released On: 17/08/2023 Life is hard for the Fothergill family as they try to make a living on their farm in the Yorkshire Dales. Bob Fothergill has set his sights on buying his own farm instead of renting the one they currently hold. Sally his teenage daughter, wishes her father would seeContinue reading “The Yorkshire Farm Girl – Diane Allen”
Laura Shepperson
Laura Shepperson has loved books her entire life, and stories about the ancient Greek and Roman worlds for nearly as long. She has a Master of Studies in Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge. Her debut novel, The Heroines, was published in 2023 by Sphere, with the US version, titled Phaedra, published by AlcoveContinue reading “Laura Shepperson”
The Turnglass – Gareth Rubin
Published By: Simon and SchusterPages: 512Released On: 31/08/2023 Imagine you’re holding a book in your hands. It’s not just any book though. It’s a tête-bêche novel, beloved of nineteenth-century bookmakers. It’s a book that is two books: two intertwined stories printed back-to-back. Open the book and the first novella begins. It ends at the middleContinue reading “The Turnglass – Gareth Rubin”
The Death I Gave Him – Em X. Liu
Published By: SolarisPages: 432Released On: 14/09/2023 A lyrical, queer sci-fi retelling of Shakespeare’s Hamlet as a locked-room thriller. A Twenty-First Century Hamlet. Hayden Lichfield’s life is ripped apart when he finds his father murdered in their lab, and the camera logs erased. The killer can only have been after one thing: the Sisyphus Formula theContinue reading “The Death I Gave Him – Em X. Liu”
The Battle of Marvel Wood – Jim Bates
Published By: ImpspiredPages: 147Released On: 14/07/2023 When Zylan and his band of poachers invade the realm and start hunting unicorns, gamekeeper Yonell and his twelve-year-old daughter Ayla are on the alert to protect them. However, in a skirmish with two of Zylan’s men, Yonell is captured along with Snowflake, the youngest unicorn in the family.Continue reading “The Battle of Marvel Wood – Jim Bates”
The Golden Girls’ Road Trip – Kate Galley
Published By: AriaPages: 288Released On: 31/08/2023 It’s never too late for one last adventure… Constance Fitzgerald may be approaching 70, but she’s never been one for putting down roots. She’s spent her life untethered and free, but when she finds herself newly engaged and a soon-to-be grandmother, Constance is forced to accept it may beContinue reading “The Golden Girls’ Road Trip – Kate Galley”
The Gingerbread Christmas Village – Kiley Dunbar
Published By: Canelo HeraPages: 320Released On: 31/08/2023 Everyone deserves a Christmas treat… The annual Wheaton gingerbread exhibit (a model village made of gingerbread) and grotto has been an important part of the sleepy Cotswold hamlet’s Christmas celebrations for decades. For years the gingerbread exhibition drew visitors from across the region and each year the modelContinue reading “The Gingerbread Christmas Village – Kiley Dunbar”