Published By: MantlePages: 384Released On: 11/09/2025 This is what no one tells you, in the songs sung about Jason and the Argo. This part of his quest has been forgotten, by everyone but me . . . Jason and his Argonauts set sail to find the Golden Fleece. The journey is filled with danger, for himContinue reading “No Friend to This House – Natalie Haynes”
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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”
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”
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”
Hare House – Sally Hinchcliffe
Published By: MantlePages: 320Released On: 06/01/2022 In the first brisk days of autumn, a woman arrives in Scotland having left her job at an all-girls school in London in mysterious circumstances. Moving into a cottage on the remote estate of Hare House, she begins to explore her new home – a patchwork of hills, moorlandContinue reading “Hare House – Sally Hinchcliffe”
The Sin Eater – Megan Campisi
Published By: MantlePages: 368Date Released: 23/07/2020 A Sin Eater’s duty is a necessary evil: she hears the final private confessions of the dying, eats their sins as a funeral rite, and so guarantees their souls access to heaven. It is always women who eat sins – since it was Eve who first ate the ForbiddenContinue reading “The Sin Eater – Megan Campisi”
Emily Noble’s Disgrace – Mary Paulson-Ellis
Published by: Pan Macmillan/MantlePages: 384Date published: 19/08/2021Date read: 11/08/2021 The case is unexceptional, that is what I know. A house full of stuff left behind by a dead woman, abandoned at the last . . . When trauma cleaner Essie Pound makes a gruesome discovery in the derelict Edinburgh boarding house she is sent toContinue reading “Emily Noble’s Disgrace – Mary Paulson-Ellis”
How To Save a Life – Eva Carter
Published by: Mantle/pan MacmillanPages: 480Date published: 01/04/2021Date read: 24/06/2021 Kerry Smith is going to save lives–and so is her best friend, Tim Palmer. After years of working towards medical school, they are about to sit for their entrance exams. But on the eve of the new millennium, a classmate goes into cardiac arrest, changing everything.Continue reading “How To Save a Life – Eva Carter”
The Animals at Lockwood Manor – Jane Healey
Published by: MantlePages: 352Date released: 10/03/2020Date read: 22/05/2020 Thirty-year-old Hetty Cartwright is tasked with the evacuation and safekeeping of the natural history museum’s collection of mammals. Once she and her exhibits arrive at Lockwood Manor, however, where they are to stay for the duration of the war, Hetty soon realises that she’s taken on moreContinue reading “The Animals at Lockwood Manor – Jane Healey”
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