Published By: HarperCollinsPages: 368Released On: 01/03/2025 In the shadowy aisles of The Lamplighter’s Bookshop, secrets lie as thick as the dust … When Evelyn Seaton answers an advertisement for an assistant at a forgotten bookshop in York, she is not the only one with something to hide. There she meets the enigmatic and prickly WilliamContinue reading “The Lamplighter’s Bookshop – Sophie Austin”
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The Woman in the Wallpaper – Lora Jones
Published By: SpherePages: 512Released On: 20/02/2025 Paris, 1789. The Oberst Factory, which crafts exquisite wallpaper for the most fashionable French homes, is a place shrouded in mystery. Most enigmatic is the woman pictured in each of its prints, rumoured to be the late Mrs Oberst, who died in peculiar circumstances. When sisters Lara and SofiContinue reading “The Woman in the Wallpaper – Lora Jones”
The Lost Passenger – Frances Quinn
Published By: Simon & SchusterPages: 416Released On: 27/02/2025 In the chaos of that terrible night, her secret went down with the Titanic. But secrets have a way of floating to the surface… Trapped in an unhappy aristocratic marriage, Elinor Coombes sees only lonely days ahead of her. So a present from her father – ticketsContinue reading “The Lost Passenger – Frances Quinn”
The Blackbirds of St Giles – Lila Cain
Published By: Simon and SchusterPages: 496Released On: 30/01/2025 It’s 1782, Daniel and his sister Pearl arrive in London with the world at their feet and their future assured. Having escaped a Jamaican sugar plantation, Daniel fought for the British in the American War of Independence and was rewarded with freedom and an inheritance. ButContinue reading “The Blackbirds of St Giles – Lila Cain”
Bethnal Green – Amélie Skoda
Published By: ManillaPages: 352Released On: 30/01/2025 Penang, 1971. When Suyin is offered the opportunity of a lifetime – a place as a trainee nurse in London’s Bethnal Green Hospital – she jumps at the chance to leave her job as a seamstress and unite with her sister, who left for the same path a yearContinue reading “Bethnal Green – Amélie Skoda”
The Lotus Shoes – Jane Yang
Published By: SpherePages: 400Released On: 28/01/2025 As a child, Little Flower is sold to Linjing’s wealthy family to become a muizai. In a fit of childish jealousy over her new handmaiden’s ladylike bound feet and talent for embroidery, Linjing ensures Little Flower can never leave her to ascend in society. Despite their starkly different places inContinue reading “The Lotus Shoes – Jane Yang”
The Queen of Fives – Alex Hay
Published By: Headline ReviewPages: 416Released On: 30/01/2025 They whisper her name in every corner of town.The lady with a hundred faces, a thousand lives.Five moves, five days – for such are the rules of her game. 1898. Quinn Le Blanc, London’s most talented con woman, has five days to pull off the seemingly impossible: trickContinue reading “The Queen of Fives – Alex Hay”
The Lost Past of Billy McQueen – Neil Alexander
Published By: Embla BooksPages: 304Released On: 01/12/2024 The past has never left Billy. It’s just been waiting for him to come and find it…It’s been over thirty years since Billy last called Northern Ireland home. Back then, his secret love for schoolfriend Conor was the only shining light that kept him going during troubled times.Continue reading “The Lost Past of Billy McQueen – Neil Alexander”
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 Undoing of Violet Claybourne – Emily Critchley
Published By: ZaffrePages: 400Released On: 07/11/2024 1938. Gillian Larking is used to blending in and going unnoticed, until she is befriended by her new roommate at boarding school, the vibrant and spirited Violet Claybourne. As the Christmas holidays approach, Gilly can’t believe her luck when Violet invites her to spend them at her home, theContinue reading “The Undoing of Violet Claybourne – Emily Critchley”
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