Published By: Hutchinson HeinemannPages: 368Released On: 17/09/2026 Philip Deval, a soldier recently returned from the beaches of Normandy, arrives in Palestine on a peace-keeping mission in the final days of the British Mandate. The Sea of Galilee glitters in the distance as war-weary troops marvel at the novelty of oranges and sun – a paradiseContinue reading “Farewell to Eden – Sebastian Faulks”
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The Newer World – Sebastian Barry
Published By: Faber Pages: 272Released On: 10/09/2026 I knew as I made my way home that there was no home. All the old things. . . were gone forever. Against a rapidly shifting landscape, Tennyson Bouguereau – freed man, devoted brother, nascent singer, conflicted soldier and wanted man – journey to find meaning and belonging.Continue reading “The Newer World – Sebastian Barry”
The Midnight Guests – Alex Hay
Published By: Headline ReviewPages: 352Released On: 10/09/2026 1926. Diana Gold, owner and impresario, throws open the doors to the most opulent new hotel in London. As the champagne flows and the chandeliers shimmer, millionaires and gamblers rub shoulders with film stars and royalty. Though, things at the Hotel Artemis aren’t quite what they seem –Continue reading “The Midnight Guests – Alex Hay”
The Library of Lost Stories – Eloise Williams
Published By: FireflyPages: 240Released On: 03/09/2026Reading Age: 10+ It’s Christmas 1976 in a small town in South Wales, and eleven-year-old Noni and her dad are hiding from the bailiffs, behind the sofa. There’s no money left and Noni’s dad – who used to fix all the town’s broken things seems to be the most brokenContinue reading “The Library of Lost Stories – Eloise Williams”
This Door of the Seas – Val McDermid and Jo Sharp
Published By: PolygonPages: 176Released On: 06/08/2026 At the end of the seventeenth century, a brave group of Scots sail for a jungle-coastline on the other side of the world, the junction between North and South America. Their objective: to establish a trading colony that would assure their hard-strapped country’s future, as the East India CompanyContinue reading “This Door of the Seas – Val McDermid and Jo Sharp”
They Can’t Burn Us All – Cathryn Kemp
Published By: BantamPages: 400Released On: 13/08/2026 Westfjords, Iceland. 1655 Þuríður Jónsdóttir has grown up praying to the old gods and watching her father and brother practise rune magic. But now, a witch-hunting craze is sweeping across the land of ice and fire, fuelled by the Protestant Reformation. Unlike elsewhere in Europe, those condemned as witchesContinue reading “They Can’t Burn Us All – Cathryn Kemp”
No Light but the Stars – Lindsay Jayne Ashford
Published By: Lake UnionPages: 253Released On: 01/08/2026 In 1941, Violet Rookwood and her mother flee war-torn London for a Cornwall farm owned by their family. There, under the floorboards of her bedroom, Violet finds a journal written by a Catholic woman more than three hundred years ago, confessing to a forbidden love. In 1606, onContinue reading “No Light but the Stars – Lindsay Jayne Ashford”
The Trouble with Sister Francis – Matt Coyne
Published By: WildfirePages: 448Released On: 27/08/2026 Sister Francis is an unlikely nun. She’s sixty, sweary, drives like a lunatic and smokes like a stacked chimney . . . and she runs the Blessed Assumption Boys Club. Richie, Bennett, Kenny and Stan are four best friends from the Whittle council estate with little to do butContinue reading “The Trouble with Sister Francis – Matt Coyne”
Beyond the Edge of Light – Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton
Published By: BantamPages: 352Released On: 09/07/2026 Munich, 1938. As dark shadows gather at the fringe of the traditional Oktoberfest revelry, Julia Ormesby finds herself falling in love with Conrad von Echlau. Later, on the eve of war, they are forced to recognise that the weight of history leaves them little chance of a life together.Continue reading “Beyond the Edge of Light – Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton”
Cast Away: or, the Surprising Adventures of Alexander Selkirk – Francesca De Tores
Published By: BloomsburyPages: 352Released On: 21/05/2026 How big must a man’s folly be, that it can cost him the whole of his life? As big as a ship; as big as an island. 1704: Alexander Selkirk, navigator of a buccaneering ship in the South Pacific Ocean, is abandoned by his crew on a deserted island.Continue reading “Cast Away: or, the Surprising Adventures of Alexander Selkirk – Francesca De Tores”
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