Published By: Faber & FaberPages: 352Released On: 01/02/2024Illustrated By: Tim McGonaghReading Age: 9-12 Twelve-year-old Eli is an apprentice librarian at the largest library in the world. But when his grandmother falls ill, he enters the Glorious Race of Magical Beasts to raise money for her treatment. This annual race is always held in the mostContinue reading “The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts – Alex Bell”
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I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning – Keiran Goddard
Published By: AbacusPages: 256Released On: 08/02/2024 Patrick, Shiv, Rian, Oli and Conor grew up together. They played together, skipped school together, and dreamt of everything they’d do with their lives.Now they are thirty, and only Rian has made it out of the estate and moved away to another city, but his money doesn’t stop himContinue reading “I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning – Keiran Goddard”
Women On Porn: One Hundred Stories. One Vital Conversation – Fiona Vera-Gray
Published By: TorvaPages: 320Released On: 08/02/2024 At a time when women are more vocal than ever about our lives, there’s one last taboo. We need to talk about porn.When we think about porn today, we still mostly think about men. Men as the producers and the consumers. Women as the product. Most women aren’t talking toContinue reading “Women On Porn: One Hundred Stories. One Vital Conversation – Fiona Vera-Gray”
Frank and Red – Matt Coyne
Published By: WildfirePages: 432Released On: 01/02/2024 Frank and Red are a mess. Frank is a grumpy old curmudgeon. A recluse whose only company is the ‘ghost’ of his dead wife, Marcie. He is estranged from his friends, his son, and the ever-changing world beyond his front gate. . . . And then Red moves inContinue reading “Frank and Red – Matt Coyne”
Maude Horton’s Glorious Revenge – Lizzie Pook
Published By: PicadorPages: 336Released On: 01/02/2024 London, 1850. Constance Horton has disappeared. Maude, her older sister, knows only that Constance abandoned the apothecary they call home, and, disguised as a boy, boarded a ship bound for the Arctic. She never returned. ‘A tragic accident’, the Admiralty called it. But Maude Horton knows something isn’t right.Continue reading “Maude Horton’s Glorious Revenge – Lizzie Pook”
Anna O – Matthew Blake
Published By: HarperCollinsPages: 400Released On: 01/02/2024 Anna Ogilvy hasn’t opened her eyes for four years Not since that night at The Farm when she was found asleep with a kitchen knife in her hand, her clothes bloodstained, the bodies of her two best friends lying close. She’d committed the crime of the century – butContinue reading “Anna O – Matthew Blake”
The Wedding of the Year – Jill Mansell
Published By: HeadlinePages: 384Released On: 18/01/2024 It’s set to be a perfect day – until the chauffeur is asked to keep driving the bride around the church. This wedding definitely isn’t going as planned. Lottie is a guest at the wedding when she sees Max. No kiss has ever matched the last one they sharedContinue reading “The Wedding of the Year – Jill Mansell”
What’s Coming in 2024…
I am so lucky that I receive advanced copies of books, either in digital or physical form, often getting them several months before publication. There’s an upside to this and a downside – although the downside is very small. On the upside: BOOKS, BOOKS AND MORE BOOKS!On the downside: I can’t really talk to peopleContinue reading “What’s Coming in 2024…”
Thorn In My Side – C.J. Skuse
Published By: HQPages: 368Released On: 04/01/2024 Rhiannon Lewis thought she finally had it all: thanks to the pandemic she’s had to keep a much lower profile but has found happiness with her fiancé Rafael and his family. For once, she is surrounded by people who love her for who she is (or who they thinkContinue reading “Thorn In My Side – C.J. Skuse”
Miss Austen Investigates – Jessica Bull
Published By: Michael JosephPages: 368Released On: 25/01/2024 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that every good mystery is in need of a brilliant sleuth…Welcome to Hampshire, 1795, where a young Jane Austen has her sights set on securing a marriage proposal from the dashing Tom Lefroy at a local ball. But when a shocking discoveryContinue reading “Miss Austen Investigates – Jessica Bull”
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