Published By: W&NPages: 336Released On: 30/01/2025 Margot and Mama have lived by the forest since Margot can remember. When Margot is not at school, they spend quiet days together in their cottage, waiting for strangers to knock on their door. Strays, Mama calls them. Mama loves the strays. She feeds them wine, keeps them warm.Continue reading “The Lamb – Lucy Rose”
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An Ethical Guide To Murder – Jenny Morris
Published By: Simon & SchusterPages: 416Released On: 16/01/2025 If you had the power between life and death, what would you do?Thea has a secret. She can tell how long someone has left to live just by touching them. Not only that, but she can transfer life from one person to another – something she findsContinue reading “An Ethical Guide To Murder – Jenny Morris”
2024 Debuts
I really enjoyed looking back on 2023 at all the utterly fabulous new authors I had discovered, so thought I’d do it again for 2024! Not every book on this page was released in 2024 – although most are; instead there are books I have read in 2024 that just happened to be that author’sContinue reading “2024 Debuts”
City of Silk – Glennis Virgo
Published By: Allison & BusbyPages: 352Released On: 21/11/2024 Justice in sixteenth-century Bologna is like the fine silk which the city produces: something only the rich and powerful can afford. Elena Morandi is a supremely talented seamstress, at home among the bolts of fabric and cutting shears of her trade. However, she is determined that herContinue reading “City of Silk – Glennis Virgo”
The Portrait Girl – Nicole Swengley
Published By: Breakthrough BooksPages:Released On: 10th October 2024 1880 A young woman sits for the painting of a miniature portrait – a fashionable betrothal gift – while secretly contemplating a terrifying decision that will change everything. This Year Freya Wetherby’s life is falling apart. Her jewellery business has failed and her boyfriend has betrayed her.Continue reading “The Portrait Girl – Nicole Swengley”
Love Letters to a Serial Killer – Tasha Coryell
Published By: OrionPages: 336Released On: 04/07/2024 When Hannah Wilson first hears about the dead women in the news, her interest in the murder case is healthy. Enough. Like the other women trawling the true crime forums, she’s convinced that she could be the one to put the pieces of the puzzle together online. Solve the murders. Somehow.Continue reading “Love Letters to a Serial Killer – Tasha Coryell”
The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to The Wastelands – Sarah Brooks
Published By: W&NPages: 384Released On: 20/06/2024 It is said there is a price that every passenger must pay. A price beyond the cost of a ticket. It is the end of the 19th Century and the world is awash with marvels. But there is nothing so marvellous as the Wastelands: a terrain of terrible miraclesContinue reading “The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to The Wastelands – Sarah Brooks”
The Ministry of Time – Kaliane Bradley
Published By: SceptrePages: 368Released On: 14/05/2024 A boy meets a girl.The past meets the future.A finger meets a trigger.The beginning meets the end.England is forever. England must fall. In the near future, a disaffected civil servant is offered a lucrative job in a mysterious new government ministry gathering ‘expats’ from across history to test theContinue reading “The Ministry of Time – Kaliane Bradley”
The Husbands – Holly Gramazio
Published By: Chatto & WindusPages: 356Released On: 04/04/2024 You wait ages for The One . . . then 203 come along at once One night Lauren finds a strange man in her flat who claims to be her husband. All the evidence – from photos to electricity bills – suggests he’s right. Lauren’s attic, sheContinue reading “The Husbands – Holly Gramazio”
Leo Vardiashvili
Leo Vardiashvili came to London with his family as a refugee from Georgia when he was twelve years old. He studied English Literature at Queen Mary University of London. Hard by a Great Forest is his first novel. Meet Leo Vardiashvili Questions on Writing What was the hardest bit about writing Hard By a Great Forest?I hadContinue reading “Leo Vardiashvili”
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