Published By: Hodder and StoughtonPages: 320Released On: 28/10/2021 In 2022 Queen Elizabeth II celebrates seventh years as Queen and Head of the Commonwealth. She is Britain’s longest reigning monarch and the very first to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee. Joanna Lumley guides us as we meet Princess Elizabeth in 1952, aged just twenty five, and aboutContinue reading “A Queen For All Seasons – Joanna Lumley”
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Anonymous Sex – Hillary Jordan and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan (editors)
Published By: Borough PressPages: 400Released On: 03/02/2022 Bestselling novelists Hillary Jordan and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan present an elegant, international anthology of erotica that explores the diverse spectrum of desire, written by winners of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, PEN Awards, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, Edgar Award, and more. There are stories of sexualContinue reading “Anonymous Sex – Hillary Jordan and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan (editors)”
Meet Me In The Margins – Melissa Ferguson
Published By: Thomas NelsonPages: 336Released On: 15/02/2022 Savannah Cade is a low-level editor at Pennington Publishing, a prestigious publisher producing only the highest of highbrow titles. And while editing the latest edition of The Anthology Of Medieval Didactic Poetry may be her day job, she has two secrets she’s hiding. One: She’s writing a romanticContinue reading “Meet Me In The Margins – Melissa Ferguson”
The Haunting Season
Published By: SpherePages: 291Released On: 12/10/2021 Winter, with its unsettling blend of the cosy and the sinister, has long been a popular time for gathering by the bright flame of a candle, or the warm crackling of a fire, and swapping stories of ghosts and strange happenings. Now eight bestselling, award-winning authors – master storytellersContinue reading “The Haunting Season”
A Terrible Kindness – Jo Browning Wroe
Published By: Faber and FaberPages: 400Released On: 20/01/2022 It is October 1966 and William Lavery is having the night of his life at his first black-tie do. But, as the evening unfolds, news hits of a landslide at a coal mine. It has buried a school: Aberfan. William decides he must act, so he standsContinue reading “A Terrible Kindness – Jo Browning Wroe”
The Blitz Bus – Glen Blackwell
Published By: Zoetrope BooksPages: 230Released On: 04/09/2021 Emmie let out a huge sob – “It’s not a film set”, she cried. She held onto Jack for a moment, then took a step back, closed her eyes and shouted – “WHERE AM I?” When Jack and Emmie suddenly find themselves transported back to London in 1940,Continue reading “The Blitz Bus – Glen Blackwell”
Breathless – Amy McCulloch
Published By: Michael JosephPages: 395Released On: 17/02/2022 When struggling journalist Cecily Wong is invited to join an expedition to climb one of the world’s tallest mountains, it seems like the chance of a lifetime. But she doesn’t realise how deadly the climb will be. As their small group starts to climb, things start to goContinue reading “Breathless – Amy McCulloch”
Violeta – Isabel Allende
Published By: BloomsburyPages: 336Released On: 25/01/2022 Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family of five boisterous sons. From the start, her life will be marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish Flu arrivesContinue reading “Violeta – Isabel Allende”
Julia and the Shark – Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Illustrator: Tom de FrestonPublished By: OrionPages: 224Released On: 02/09/2021 “The shark was beneath my bed, growing large as the room, large as the lighthouse, rising from unfathomable depths until it ripped the whole island from its roots. The bed was a boat, that shark a tide, and it pulled me so far out to seaContinue reading “Julia and the Shark – Kiran Millwood Hargrave”
Thirty Things I Love About Myself – Radhika Sanghani
Published By: HeadlinePages: 400Released On: 20/01/2022 Nina didn’t plan to spend her thirtieth birthday in jail, yet here she is in her pyjamas, locked in a holding cell. There’s no wi-fi, no wine, no carbs – and no one to celebrate with. Unfortunately, it gives Nina plenty of time to reflect on how screwed upContinue reading “Thirty Things I Love About Myself – Radhika Sanghani”
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