Published By: Simon & SchusterPages: 528Released On: 25/09/2025 We begin with the last testament of William Shakespeare as he investigates the real-life murder mystery of his friend, playwright Christopher Marlowe. The second story is a 19th-century Gothic tale about the discovery of Shakespeare’s manuscript, set in an isolated former Priory, now a clinic for thoseContinue reading “The Waterfall – Gareth Rubin”
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Revolting – Terry Deary
Published By: BantamPages: 256Released On: 25/09/2025 It is a truth universally acknowledged that the rich and powerful always look after their own and the working people are always revolting. But every now and again, a new group actually manages to seize power, and it changes history. Horrible Histories author Terry Deary takes readers on a hilariousContinue reading “Revolting – Terry Deary”
Six Weeks by the Sea – Paula Byrne
Published By: William CollinsPages: 240Released On: 28/08/2025 Summer 1801. Sidmouth, England. The Austen Family descends upon a fashionable Georgian seaside resort in Devonshire for a six-week holiday. Jane’s brother, Frank, is on leave from the Royal Navy, and dearly wishes to unite his sister with his friend Captain Peter Parker. But another holidaymaker, a handsomeContinue reading “Six Weeks by the Sea – Paula Byrne”
The Art of a Lie – Laura Shepherd-Robinson
Published By: MantlePages: 320Released On: 10/07/2025 That’s the trouble with stories, especially the ones you write for yourself. Sometimes you think they’ve ended, when they’ve barely begun . . . London, 1749. Following the murder of her husband in what looks like a violent street robbery, Hannah Cole is struggling to keep her head above water.Continue reading “The Art of a Lie – Laura Shepherd-Robinson”
Fulvia – Kaarina Parker
Published By: Manilla PressPages: 288Released On: 15/07/2025 She was a woman who took no interest in spinning or housekeeping. She wanted to rule a ruler and command a commander — Plutarch Fulvia is the daughter of a wealthy but unimportant Roman family. Raised in the countryside, she longs for a life of intrigue and influence.Continue reading “Fulvia – Kaarina Parker”
The Tarot Reader of Versailles – Anya Bergman
Published By: ManillaPages: 400Released On: 19/06/2025 Two women. An extraordinary power. In a time of revolution, betrayal could lie in the turn of a card . . . It is the early days of the French Revolution and, on the streets of Paris, terror reigns. Marie Anne Adelaide Lenormand is a young woman with an extraordinary powerContinue reading “The Tarot Reader of Versailles – Anya Bergman”
Love, Sex & Frankenstein – Caroline Lea
Published By: Michael JosephPages: 400Released On: 19/06/2025 Villa Diodati, Lake Geneva, 1816. The dark summer that birthed a monster . . . Eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley has fled London with her lover, Percy Shelley, and her sister, Claire. Tormented by Shelley’s betrayals, haunted by the loss of their baby and suspicious of her sister’s intentions, MaryContinue reading “Love, Sex & Frankenstein – Caroline Lea”
The Treasures – Harriet Evans
Published By: VikingPages: 448Released On: 12/06/2025 Every family’s story starts somewhere.Alice and Tom’s begins here. On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Alice Jansen collects her treasures – the keepsakes, figurines and mementoes that help her make sense of her fragile family. But the next day her heart is broken, and the final treasure, aContinue reading “The Treasures – Harriet Evans”
The Mourning Necklace – Kate Foster
Published By: MantlePages: 304Released On: 29/05/2025 They said I would swing for the crime and I did. I wear the rope-bruise like a necklace. 1724. In a tavern just outside Edinburgh, Maggie Dickson’s family drown their sorrows, mourning her death yet relieved she is gone. Shame haunts them. Hanged for the murder of her newbornContinue reading “The Mourning Necklace – Kate Foster”
Cleopatra – Natasha Solomons
Published By: Manilla PressPages: 400Released On: 08/05/2025 Cleopatra, Egyptian Princess, grows up the favoured daughter of the Pharoah, hiding amongst the scrolls in the great library of Alexandria with her beloved slave Charmian, longing for the chance one day to write her own story. Then when her father dies, willing that Cleopatra rule with herContinue reading “Cleopatra – Natasha Solomons”
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