Published By: DoubledayPages: 256Released On: 06/06/2024 “Oh, honey,” I say. “I’m sorry. Don’t worry about me! I’m totally good. I’m so, so happy to be here with you.”This is how it is to love somebody. You tell them the truth. You lie a little. And sometimes you don’t say anything at all…” For the pastContinue reading “Sandwich – Catherine Newman”
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Laura Purcell
My life has been heavily book-focused. I started writing as a teenager and went straight from school to working in a bookshop, where I met my husband. My fiction combines my fascination with history and my passion for horror films, but it doesn’t feature the other love of my life: guinea pigs. I’ve owned fifteenContinue reading “Laura Purcell”
The Theatre of Glass and Shadows – Anne Corlett
Published By: Black & White PublishingPages: 400Released On: 23/05/2024 In an alternate London, the city’s Theatre District is a walled area south of the river where an immersive production – the Show – has been running for centuries, growing ever bigger, more sprawling and lavish. The Show is open to anyone who can afford aContinue reading “The Theatre of Glass and Shadows – Anne Corlett”
Julie Casson
Sadly, I am a widow. But happily, I got to share forty-two fabulous years with Nigel – my funny, joyful, incomparable husband, soulmate and best-friend. I am mum to a charismatic son very much like his father and two delightful daughters, also very much like their father, with a tiny bit of me chucked intoContinue reading “Julie Casson”
Diana Janney
I grew up in the countryside and have spent most of my adult life in London, where I met and married my husband. We met when we were both lawyers at a large international law firm in the City. I then transferred to the Bar and practised as a barrister before turning to writing fullContinue reading “Diana Janney”
You Don’t Have To Be Mad To Work Here: A Psychiatrist’s Life – Dr Benji Waterhouse
Published By: Jonathan CapePages: 288Released On: 16/05/2024 A woman with bipolar flies from America in a wedding dress to marry Harry Styles.A lorry driver with schizophrenia believes he’s got a cure for coronavirus.A depressed psychiatrist hides his profession from his GP due to stigma.Most of the characters in this book are his patients. Some ofContinue reading “You Don’t Have To Be Mad To Work Here: A Psychiatrist’s Life – Dr Benji Waterhouse”
Shakespeare Is Hard, But So Is Life – Fintan O-Toole
Published By: ApolloPages: 208Released On: 06/06/2024 The works of Shakespeare have become staples of literature. They are everywhere, from our early schooling to the lecture rooms of academia, from classic theatre to modern adaptations on stage and screen. But how well do we really know his plays? In this witty, iconoclastic book, the bestselling authorContinue reading “Shakespeare Is Hard, But So Is Life – Fintan O-Toole”
Moonstone – Laura Purcell
Published By: MagpiePages: 400Released On: 23/05/2024 Don’t misbehave. Beware the moon. And never go out after dark . . . Following a scandal at the Vauxhall pleasure gardens, Camille is sent to the woods to live with her reclusive godmother and her strange daughter, Lucy. Cast out from polite society, she must learn to live by herContinue reading “Moonstone – Laura Purcell”
Wild Treasures: A Year of Extraordinary Encounters with Cornwall’s Wildlife – Hannah Stitfall
Published By: GaiaPages: 272Released On: 25/04/2024 Hannah Stitfall is a TV presenter and zoologist, who regularly gets up in the early hours of the morning to try and catch sight of some of Cornwall’s best hidden wildlife. She will spend hours on end waiting for a creature to appear among a hedgerow, scurrying across Cornwall’sContinue reading “Wild Treasures: A Year of Extraordinary Encounters with Cornwall’s Wildlife – Hannah Stitfall”
Hunted – Abir Mukherjee
Published By: Harvill SeckerPages: 354Released On: 16/05/2024 It’s a week before the presidential elections when a bomb goes off in an LA shopping mall. In London, armed police storm Heathrow Airport and arrest Sajid Khan. His daughter, Aliyah entered the USA with the suicide bomber, and now she’s missing, potentially plotting another attack on AmericanContinue reading “Hunted – Abir Mukherjee”
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