Published By: Harper CollinsPages: 672Released On: 17/02/2022 1768. Charlotte arrives in Naples to marry a man she has never met. Two years later, her sister Antoine is sent to France to marry another stranger. In the mirrored corridors of Versailles, they rename her Marie Antoinette. But the sisters are not powerless. When they were onlyContinue reading “The Embroidered Book – Kate Heartfield”
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The Rebound – Catherine Walsh
Published By: BookouturePages: 334Released On: 14/02/2022 It’s 7am on a Monday morning and Abby Reynolds isn’t where she wants to be. She wants to be in her beautiful loft apartment in Manhattan, drinking a coffee with her fiancé. Instead, she’s heading back to the childhood home in rural Ireland she swore she’s never return to,Continue reading “The Rebound – Catherine Walsh”
Just The Way You Are – Beth Moran
Published By: BoldwoodPages: 378Released On: 17/02/2022 When Olivia Tennyson – or Ollie to her friends – was sixteen, she wrote a Dream List of all the things she wanted for her life, including a happy marriage and a family. But at 29, Ollie is single, living at home with her over-protective and manipulative mother, andContinue reading “Just The Way You Are – Beth Moran”
A River Enchanted – Rebecca Ross
Published By: HarperCollinsPages: 480Released On: 03/02/2022 Jack Tamerlaine hasn’t stepped foot on Cadence in ten long years, content to study music at the mainland university. But when young girls start disappearing from the isle, Jack is summoned home to help find them. Enchantments run deep on Cadence: gossip is carried by the wind, plaid shawlsContinue reading “A River Enchanted – Rebecca Ross”
A Queen For All Seasons – Joanna Lumley
Published By: Hodder and StoughtonPages: 320Released On: 28/10/2021 In 2022 Queen Elizabeth II celebrates seventh years as Queen and Head of the Commonwealth. She is Britain’s longest reigning monarch and the very first to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee. Joanna Lumley guides us as we meet Princess Elizabeth in 1952, aged just twenty five, and aboutContinue reading “A Queen For All Seasons – Joanna Lumley”
Anonymous Sex – Hillary Jordan and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan (editors)
Published By: Borough PressPages: 400Released On: 03/02/2022 Bestselling novelists Hillary Jordan and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan present an elegant, international anthology of erotica that explores the diverse spectrum of desire, written by winners of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, PEN Awards, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, Edgar Award, and more. There are stories of sexualContinue reading “Anonymous Sex – Hillary Jordan and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan (editors)”
Meet Me In The Margins – Melissa Ferguson
Published By: Thomas NelsonPages: 336Released On: 15/02/2022 Savannah Cade is a low-level editor at Pennington Publishing, a prestigious publisher producing only the highest of highbrow titles. And while editing the latest edition of The Anthology Of Medieval Didactic Poetry may be her day job, she has two secrets she’s hiding. One: She’s writing a romanticContinue reading “Meet Me In The Margins – Melissa Ferguson”
The Haunting Season
Published By: SpherePages: 291Released On: 12/10/2021 Winter, with its unsettling blend of the cosy and the sinister, has long been a popular time for gathering by the bright flame of a candle, or the warm crackling of a fire, and swapping stories of ghosts and strange happenings. Now eight bestselling, award-winning authors – master storytellersContinue reading “The Haunting Season”
A Terrible Kindness – Jo Browning Wroe
Published By: Faber and FaberPages: 400Released On: 20/01/2022 It is October 1966 and William Lavery is having the night of his life at his first black-tie do. But, as the evening unfolds, news hits of a landslide at a coal mine. It has buried a school: Aberfan. William decides he must act, so he standsContinue reading “A Terrible Kindness – Jo Browning Wroe”
The Blitz Bus – Glen Blackwell
Published By: Zoetrope BooksPages: 230Released On: 04/09/2021 Emmie let out a huge sob – “It’s not a film set”, she cried. She held onto Jack for a moment, then took a step back, closed her eyes and shouted – “WHERE AM I?” When Jack and Emmie suddenly find themselves transported back to London in 1940,Continue reading “The Blitz Bus – Glen Blackwell”