Published By: Simon & Schuster ChildrenPages: 352Released On: 27/03/2025Reading Age: 9+ The dark was deep; it opened like a cavernous mouth and swallowed the boy whole.Cassia Thorne leads a double life. By day, she sells ballads at Bartholomew Fair. By night she spends her evenings locked up in Fleet Prison. Cassia has plans of escapingContinue reading “Deep Dark – Zohra Nabi”
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The Prince Without Sorrow – Maithree Wijesekara
Published By: HarperVoyagerPages: 384Released On: 27/03/2025 Welcome to the Ran Empire. Where winged serpents fly through the skies. Giant leopards prowl the earth. And witches burn blue as they die. A prince born into violence. Prince Ashoka is considered an outcast for opposing his father Emperor Adil Maurya’s brutal destruction of the Mayakari witches. AContinue reading “The Prince Without Sorrow – Maithree Wijesekara”
Michael Rosen’s Pocket Shakespeare – Michael Rosen
Published By: Walker BooksPages: 192Released On: 03/04/2025Reading Age: 9-12Illustrated By: Chris Riddell Thanks to NetGalley and Walker Books for the advanced copy of this title in return for an honest review. Why have I – a 31 year old woman with no children of her own – read a book aimed at 9-12 year olds,Continue reading “Michael Rosen’s Pocket Shakespeare – Michael Rosen”
Death at the White Hart – Chris Chibnall
Published By: Michael JosephPages: 368Released On: 27/03/2025 When Nicola Bridge moves back to Dorset after years as a CID detective in the big city, the last thing she expects is for the picturesque village of Fleetcombe to become a grisly crime scene. Jim Tiernan, landlord of the White Hart pub, has been found dead, theContinue reading “Death at the White Hart – Chris Chibnall”
The Time Traveling Healer – Jim Bates
Pages: 128Released On: 26/01/2025 When he fails to help curb the worldwide pandemic in the 21st Century, time-traveling healer Torak loses confidence in himself. When his boss Master Healer Robbikan sends him back in time to help with a plague that is sweeping the land of Anon, Torak vows to do better with this secondContinue reading “The Time Traveling Healer – Jim Bates”
The New Neighbours – Claire Douglas
Published By: PenguinPages: 400Released On: 13/03/2025 Do you trust the couple next door?When Lena overhears a conversation between her next-door-neighbours she thinks she must have misheard. After all, the Morgans are a kind, retired couple who have moved to a suburban street in Bristol where nothing ever happens. But it sounded like they were planningContinue reading “The New Neighbours – Claire Douglas”
A Fortune Most Fatal – Jessica Bull
Published By: Michael JosephPages: 368Released On: 27/03/2025 “Who are you, Miss Austen, but a young lady of little experience and no consequence?” Welcome to Kent, 1797. Following many years apart, Jane Austen is set to spend the summer with her estranged brother, Neddy. As heir to wealthy widow Mrs Knight’s fortune, it is imperative thatContinue reading “A Fortune Most Fatal – Jessica Bull”
A Trial In Three Acts – Guy Morpuss
Published By: ViperPages: 416Released On: 06/03/2025 A trial is rather like a play. We wear our costumes. We perform to the audience. And on a good day no-one gets murdered. Six nights a week the cast of the smash-hit play Daughter of the Revolution performs to a sold-out audience. A thrilling story of forbidden marriageContinue reading “A Trial In Three Acts – Guy Morpuss”
Everyone in the Group Chat Dies – L.M Chilton
Published By: AriesPages: 368Released On: 13/03/2025 Kirby Cornell needs a break from everything: – Her crumbling flat in the sleepy town of Crowhurst (famous for its award-winning sausage rolls and a second-rate serial killer from the 90s).– Her dead-end job.– Her sleazy landlord.– Her slobbish housemates.– And, most of all, the terrible thing they all did.Continue reading “Everyone in the Group Chat Dies – L.M Chilton”
One Hundred Flowers – Genki Kawamura
Published By: BonnierPages: Released On: 13/03/2025Translator: Cathy Hirano The fragrance of a single stem in a vase.The shimmering reflection of fireworks in a lake.The quiet of a bookshop as evening falls.The feeling of opening a brand-new diary and beginning to write . Moments of beauty endure. But what happens when you begin to forget? YurikoContinue reading “One Hundred Flowers – Genki Kawamura”
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