Published by: Raven BooksPages: 416Date released: 21/01/2021Date read: 25/01/2021 As the age of the photograph dawns in Victorian Bath, silhouette artist Agnes is struggling to keep her business afloat. Still recovering from a serious illness herself, making enough money to support her elderly mother and her orphaned nephew Cedric has never been easy, but thenContinue reading “The Shape of Darkness – Laura Purcell”
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Girl A – Abigail Dean
Published by: HarperFictionPages: 336Date released: 21/01/2021Date read: 13/02/2021 Girl A,’ she said. ‘The girl who escaped. If anyone was going to make it, it was going to be you.’ Lex Gracie doesn’t want to think about her family. She doesn’t want to think about growing up in her parents’ House of Horrors. And she doesn’tContinue reading “Girl A – Abigail Dean”
The Midnight Library – Matt Haig
Published by: Canongate BooksPages: 288Date released: 13/08/2020Date read: 15/08/2020 Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you couldContinue reading “The Midnight Library – Matt Haig”
NICK – Michael Farris Smith
Published by: No Exit PressPages: 304Date released: 25/02/2021Date read: 28/02/2021 Before Nick Carraway moved to West Egg and into Gatsby’s periphery, he was at the centre of a very different story – one taking place along the trenches and deep within the tunnels of World War I. Floundering in the wake of the destruction heContinue reading “NICK – Michael Farris Smith”
Eudora Honeysett Is Quite Well, Thank You – Annie Lyons
Published by: One More ChapterPages: 372Date released: 17/09/2020Date read: 07/02/2021 Eudora Honeysett is done with this noisy, moronic world – all of it. She has witnessed the indignities and suffering of old age and has lived a full life. At eighty-five, she isn’t going to leave things to chance. Her end will be on herContinue reading “Eudora Honeysett Is Quite Well, Thank You – Annie Lyons”
Ghosts – Dolly Alderton
Published by: Fig TreePages: 336Date released: 15/10/2020Date read: 05/02/2021 Nina Dean has arrived at her early thirties as a successful food writer with loving friends and family, plus a new home and neighbourhood. When she meets Max, a beguiling romantic hero who tells her on date on that he’s going to marry her, it feelsContinue reading “Ghosts – Dolly Alderton”
The Sanatorium – Sarah Pearse
Published By: Bantam PressPages: 368Date Published: 18/02/2021Date Read: 21/02/2021 An imposing, isolated hotel, high up in the Swiss Alps, is the last place Elin Warner wants to be. But she’s taken time off from her job as a detective, so when she receives an invitation out of the blue to celebrate her estranged brother’s recentContinue reading “The Sanatorium – Sarah Pearse”
And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
Published by: HarperCollinsPages: 256Date released: 03/12/2015Date read: 17/01/2021 First, there were ten – a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a little private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unknown to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common isContinue reading “And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie”
Luster – Raven Leilani
Published by: PicadorPages: 240Date released: 21/01/2021Date read: 16/02/2021 Edie is just trying to survive. She’s messing up in her dead-end admin job in her all-white office, is sleeping with all the wrong men, and has failed at the only thing that meant anything to her, painting. No one seems to care that she doesn’t reallyContinue reading “Luster – Raven Leilani”
The Push – Ashley Audrain
Published by: Pamela Dorman BooksPages: 320Date released: 05/01/2021Date read: 26/01/2021 Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting mother to her new baby Violet that she herself never had. But in the thick of motherhood’s exhausting early days, Blythe becomes convinced that something is wrong with her daughter – she doesn’t behaveContinue reading “The Push – Ashley Audrain”
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