Published by: Tor BooksPages: 336Date released: 04/02/2021Date read: 14/03/2021 When ghosts talk, she will listen… Ropa dropped out of school to become a ghost talker – and she now speaks to Edinburgh’s dead, carrying messages to the living. A girl’s gotta earn a living, and it seems harmless enough. Until, that is, the dead whisperContinue reading “The Library of the Dead (Edinburgh Nights #1) – T.L. Huchu”
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Heal Me – Julia Buckley
Published by: MacmillanPages: 512Date released: 14/01/2021Date read: 16/01/2021 Jessie Buckley needs a miracle. Like a third of the UK population, she has a chronic pain condition. According to her doctors, it can’t be cured. She doesn’t believe them. She does believe in miracles, though. It’s just a question of tracking one down. Julia’s search forContinue reading “Heal Me – Julia Buckley”
How to Make a Dress – Jenny Packham
Published by: Ebury PressPages: 272Date released: 04/03/2021Date read: 06/03/2021 Jenny Packham is one of Britain’s leading designers and most in-demand couturiers, known for her exquisite dresses made for brides, celebrities and even royalty. In How to Make a Dress, she explores her creative journey in a brilliant meditation on life and style. Beginning with theContinue reading “How to Make a Dress – Jenny Packham”
Confessions of a Forty-Something F##k Up – Alexandra Potter
Published by: MacmillanPages: 512Date released: 14/01/2021Date read: 16/01/2021 When her business goes bust and her fiancé with it, Nell’s happy ever after in California falls apart and she moves back to London to start over. But a lot has changed since she’s been gone. All her single friends are now married with children, sky-high rentsContinue reading “Confessions of a Forty-Something F##k Up – Alexandra Potter”
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot – Marianne Cronin
Published by: DoubledayPages: 400Date released: 18/02/2021Date read: 03/03/2021 Life is short. No-one knows that better than seventeen-year-old Lenni living on the terminal ward. But as she is about to learn, it’s not only what you make of life that matters, but who you share it with. Dodging doctor’s orders, she joins an art class whereContinue reading “The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot – Marianne Cronin”
The Ickabog – J.K Rowling
Published by: Little, Brown Books for Young ReadersPages: 282Date released: 20/11/2020Date read: 13/02/2021 Once upon a time there was a tiny kingdom called Cornucopia, as rich in happiness as it was in gold, and famous for its food. From the delicate cream cheeses of Kurdsburg to the Hopes-of-Heaven pastries of Chouxville, each was so deliciousContinue reading “The Ickabog – J.K Rowling”
The Shape of Darkness – Laura Purcell
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”
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”
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