Published By: Jonathan CapePages: 400Released On: 04/07/2024 If you could never stay, where would you go? Paris, 1885: Aubry Tourvel, a spoiled and stubborn nine-year-old girl, comes across a wooden puzzle ball on her walk home from school. She tosses it over the fence, only to find it in her satchel that evening. Days later, atContinue reading “A Short Walk Through a Wide World – Douglas Westerbeke”
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Babylonia – Costanza Casati
Published By: Michael JosephPages: 400Released On: 04/07/2024 You are SEMIRAMIS. You are orphaned and raised on the outskirts of an empire, born into a life of toil and anonymity. But dreams of power and potential course through your veins. You’re strong, cunning and quick… and hungry for more. If you want the world to knowContinue reading “Babylonia – Costanza Casati”
The Midnight Hour – Eve Chase
Published By: Michael JosephPages: 368Released On: 27/06/2024 Notting Hill, London. One May evening, seventeen-year-old Maggie Parker’s mother walks out of their front door and doesn’t return . . . With her little brother in tow, desperate to find her mother, Maggie is drawn into a labyrinthine world of antiques and shadowy figures, far from theContinue reading “The Midnight Hour – Eve Chase”
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”
How to Solve Murders Like a Lady – Hannah Dolby
Published By: AriaPages: 400Released On: 06/06/2024 Violet Hamilton is no ordinary lady… She is a Lady Detective, who spends her time solving mysteries and unveiling scandals in the bustling seaside town of Hastings and St Leonards, a popular spot for the Victorian middle classes. But when the body of a local woman is found onContinue reading “How to Solve Murders Like a Lady – Hannah Dolby”
The Burial Plot – Elizabeth MacNeal
Published By: PicadorPages: 336Released On: 06/06/2024 She wants him. He’ll take everything. London, 1839. With the cemeteries full and money to be made in death, tricksters Crawford and Bonnie survive on wicked schemes and ill-gotten coin. But one blistering evening, their fortunes flip. A man lies in a pool of blood at Bonnie’s feet andContinue reading “The Burial Plot – Elizabeth MacNeal”
The King’s Witches – Kate Foster
Published By: MantlePages: 336Released On: 06/06/2024 Women whisper secrets to each other; it is how we survive. 1589. Princess Anne of Denmark is betrothed to King James VI of Scotland – a royal union designed to forever unite the two countries. But first, she must pass the trial period: one year of marriage in which sheContinue reading “The King’s Witches – Kate Foster”
House of Shades – Lianne Dillsworth
Published By: Hutchinson HeinemannPages: 400Released On: 16/05/2024 London, 1833Doctress Hester Reeves has been offered a life-changing commission.But it comes at a price. She must leave behind her husband and their canal-side home in Kings Cross and move to Tall Trees – a dark and foreboding house in Fitzrovia.If Hester can cure the ailing health ofContinue reading “House of Shades – Lianne Dillsworth”
Hold Back The Night – Jessica Moor
Published By: Manilla PressPages: 256Released On: 09/05/2024 March 2020. Annie is alone in her house as the world shuts down, only the ghosts of her memories for company. But then she receives a phone call which plunges her deeper into the past. 1959. Annie and Rita are student nurses at Fairlie Hall mental hospital. WorkingContinue reading “Hold Back The Night – Jessica Moor”
The Darkest Night – Victoria Hawthorne
Published By: QuercusPages: 368Released On: 25/04/2024 A MISSING WOMANWhen Ailsa Reid becomes the subject of a trial by media after an incident at the school where she works, she escapes to the comfort of her grandparents’ house in Fife. But she arrives to find her grandmother, Moira – recently diagnosed with dementia – has goneContinue reading “The Darkest Night – Victoria Hawthorne”
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