Published By: Grove PressPages: 208Released On: 22/03/2022 Louisiana, 2042. Spurred by the effects of climate change, states have closed graveyards and banned burials, making cremation mandatory and the ashes of loved ones state-owned unless otherwise claimed. In the small town of St. Genevieve, Alma lives alone and struggles to grieve in the wake of herContinue reading “Here Lies – Olivia Clare Friedman”
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Impossible – Sarah Lotz
Published By: HarperCollinsPages: 400Released On: 17/03/2022 This is not a love story. This is impossible. ‘Sometimes love doesn’t come in the form you think it will.’ Nick: Failed writer. Failed husband. Dog owner. Bee: Serial dater. Dress maker. Pringles enthusiast. When fate brings them together over a misdirected email, the connection is instant. They feelContinue reading “Impossible – Sarah Lotz”
The Balloon Thief – Aneesa Marufu
Published By: Chicken HousePages: 438Released On: 03/03/2022 For Khadija, the only escape from her father’s arranged betrothal is the sky. When she spots a rogue hot air balloon fighting against its ropes, she leaps at the chance for adventure. Khadija soon finds an unlikely ally in a poor glassmaker’s apprentice, Jacob. But Jacob is aContinue reading “The Balloon Thief – Aneesa Marufu”
The Embroidered Book – Kate Heartfield
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”
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”
Midnight in Everwood – M.A Kuzniar
Published By: HQPages: 339Released On: 28/10/2021 There’s nothing Marietta Stelle loves more than ballet, but after Christmas, her dreams will be over as she is obligated to take her place in Edwardian society. Whilst she is chafing against such suffocating traditions, a mysterious man purchased the neighbouring townhouse. Dr Drosselmeier is a charming but calculatingContinue reading “Midnight in Everwood – M.A Kuzniar”
The Hummingbird’s Tear – CM Kerley
Pages: 318Released On: 20/03/2020 In the high towers of Castle Kraner, the King has chosen to hide away, leaving his kingdom undefended, open to attack from men, monsters and magic users. His loyal son Prince Orren, despairing of his father’s wilful ignorance, is doing all he can to gather the men and women he believesContinue reading “The Hummingbird’s Tear – CM Kerley”
Piranesi – Susanna Clarke
Published by: BloomsburyPages: 245Released On: 02/09/2021 Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant.Continue reading “Piranesi – Susanna Clarke”
Where the Shadows Beckon: The Blood of Eith #1 – Gillian Grant
Released On: 04/01/2022 As a hunter, Evren Hanali of Orenlion has probably seen it all and done even more, even though she likes to fade into the background. She prefers a solitary existence, doing the jobs she’s commissioned for an not much else. But fate has other plans. It seems she has a destiny –Continue reading “Where the Shadows Beckon: The Blood of Eith #1 – Gillian Grant”
How High We Go In The Dark – Sequoia Nagamatsu
Published By: BloomsburyPages: 304Released On: 304 Beginning in 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased daughter at the Batagaika crater, where researchers are studying long-buried secrets now revealed in melting permafrost, including the perfectly preserved remains of a girl who appears to have died ofContinue reading “How High We Go In The Dark – Sequoia Nagamatsu”
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