Published By: Pan MacmillanPages: 368Released On: 20/01/2022 In 1926, Agatha Christie disappeared for 11 days. Only I know the truth of her disappearance.I’m no Hercule Poirot.I’m her husband’s mistress. Agatha Christie’s world is one of glamorous society parties, country house weekends, and growing literary fame. Nan O’Dea’s world is something very different. Her attempts toContinue reading “The Christie Affair – Nina De Gramont”
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Send Nudes – Saba Sams
Published By: BloomsburyPages: 224Released On: 20/01/2022 In ten dazzling stories, Saba Sams dives into the world of girlhood and immerses us in its contradictions and complexities: growing up too quickly, yet not quickly enough; taking possession of what one can, while being taken possession of; succumbing to societal pressure but also orchestrating that pressure. theseContinue reading “Send Nudes – Saba Sams”
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”
The Key In The Lock – Beth Underdown
Published By: PenguinPages: 304Released On: 27/01/2022 By day, Ivy Boscawen mourns the loss of her son Tim in the Great War. But by night she mourns another boy – one whose death decades ago haunts her still. For Ivy is sure that there is more to what happened all those years ago: the fire atContinue reading “The Key In The Lock – Beth Underdown”
The Twyford Code – Janice Hallett
Published By: ViperPages: 384Released On: 13/01/2022 Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a famous children’s book, its margins full of strange markings and annotations. He took it to his remedial English teacher, Miss Isles, who became convinced it was the key to solving a puzzle. That a message in secret code ranContinue reading “The Twyford Code – Janice Hallett”
Wishing Under a Starlit Skye – Lisa Hobman
Published By: BoldwoodPages: 339Released On: 13/01/2022 Glentorrin bakery owner, and lone parent, Caitlin Fraser, is single and finally ready to mingle. With her daughter, Grace, about to become a teenager, and her friends all settling down, Caitlin decides she deserves a shot at happiness too. Resisting the pull of dating apps, Caitlin embarks upon aContinue reading “Wishing Under a Starlit Skye – Lisa Hobman”
The Evening’s Amethyst: A Nora Tierney English Mystery #5 – M.K Graff
Published By: Bridle Path PressPages: 336Released On: 12/10/2021 Who is Verity? That becomes a central question for American Nora Tierney, who has moved to her new Oxford home with her fiancé, DI Declan Barnes, and her young son. Declan’s new case at Exeter College coincides with a frantic call from Nora’s stepsister, Claire Scott: aContinue reading “The Evening’s Amethyst: A Nora Tierney English Mystery #5 – M.K Graff”
Hare House – Sally Hinchcliffe
Published By: MantlePages: 320Released On: 06/01/2022 In the first brisk days of autumn, a woman arrives in Scotland having left her job at an all-girls school in London in mysterious circumstances. Moving into a cottage on the remote estate of Hare House, she begins to explore her new home – a patchwork of hills, moorlandContinue reading “Hare House – Sally Hinchcliffe”
My Favourite Books of 2021: Part 2
*Contains Spoilers* Thanks for coming back to see what my favourite books of 2021, July-December, were. I hope you enjoyed reading the first part, and I hope you find some new books to read here 😊 JULY When Wallace Price is collected from his own funeral, he starts to believe he may actually be dead.Continue reading “My Favourite Books of 2021: Part 2”
My Favourite Books of 2021: Part 1
*Contains Spoilers* At the start of 2021, I aimed to read 100 books before the year was out. Not we’re at the final days and I can announce I managed to read 200! Reading is not a competition and whether you’ve read 1 or 100, the fact you’re reading at all is all that matters.Continue reading “My Favourite Books of 2021: Part 1”
Books By Your Bedside 