The Writing Retreat – Julia Bartz

Published By: OneworldPages: 320Released On: 02/03/2023 Alex has all but given up on her dreams of becoming a published author when she receives a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: attend an exclusive, month-long writing retreat at the estate of feminist horror writer Roza Vallo. Even the knowledge that Wren, her former best friend and current rival, is attendingContinue reading “The Writing Retreat – Julia Bartz”

A Flaw in the Design – Nathan Oates

Published By: ViperPages: 304Released On: 23/03/2023 The cleverest psychopaths hide in plain sight. Gil is living a quiet life as a creative writing professor in a bucolic Vermont town, when he receives some shocking news: His sister and her husband have been killed in a car accident, and their only son is coming to liveContinue reading “A Flaw in the Design – Nathan Oates”

If I Let You Go – Charlotte Levin

Published By: Pan MacmillanPages: 368Released On: 02/03/2023 Every morning Janet Brown goes to work cleaning offices. It calms her, cleanliness, neatness. All the things she’s unable to do with her soul can be achieved with a damp cloth and a splash of bleach. However, the guilt she still carries about a devastating loss that happenedContinue reading “If I Let You Go – Charlotte Levin”

The Best Days of our Lives – Lucy Diamond

Published By: QuercusPages: 400Released On: 16/02/2023 When 35-year-old Leni McKenzie is knocked off her bike, her family’s world is turned upside down. Leni and her sister Alice were best friends as well as siblings. But did they know each other as well as Alice thought? In the hope of coming to terms with her grief,Continue reading “The Best Days of our Lives – Lucy Diamond”

The Book of the Most Precious Substance – Sara Gran

Published By: Faber and FaberPages: 336Released On: 03/11/2022 Rare book dealer Lily Albrecht has just been given a tip-off about The Book of the Most Precious Substance, a 17th century manual rumoured to be the most powerful occult book ever written, if it really exists at all. With some of the wealthiest people in theContinue reading “The Book of the Most Precious Substance – Sara Gran”

The Gingerbread Cafe – Anita Faulkner

Published By: SpherePages: 368Released On: 27/10/2022 The Gingerbread Café is always full of Christmas magic. Come rain or shine (or even a July heatwave), there’s always a hot chocolate bursting with cinnamon and marshmallows waiting for you. For introverted Gretel, it’s been the perfect escape from ‘real life’. The owner, Nell, is Gretel’s last linkContinue reading “The Gingerbread Cafe – Anita Faulkner”

Eliot’s Book of Bookish Lists – Henry Eliot

Published By: PenguinPages: 160Released On: 06/10/2022 Who had birds called Death, Wigs and Spinach? How do you spell the noise of a door slamming? Whose working title was The Chronic Argonauts? Henry Eliot – author, editor and insatiable bookworm – has ransacked the libraries and archives of world literature, compiling hundreds of bookish lists. This eclecticContinue reading “Eliot’s Book of Bookish Lists – Henry Eliot”

The Measure – Nikki Erlick

Published By: HarperCollinsPages: 400Released On: 05/07/2022 It seems like any other day: You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out. But today when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. This box holds your fate inside: the answer to the exact number of years you willContinue reading “The Measure – Nikki Erlick”

The Love of my Life – Rosie Walsh

Published By: Pan MacmillanPages: 384Released On: 23/06/2022 I have held you every night for ten years and I didn’t even know your name. We have a child together. A dog, a house. Who are you? Emma loves her husband Leo and their young daughter Ruby: she’d do anything for them. But almost everything she’s toldContinue reading “The Love of my Life – Rosie Walsh”

The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle – Jennifer Ryan

Published By: Pan MacmillanPages: 368Released On: 09/06/2022 After renowned London fashion designer Cressida Westcott loses both her home and her design house in the Blitz, she has nowhere to go but the family manor he she fled decades ago. She arrives with nothing but the clothes she stands in, at a loss as to howContinue reading “The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle – Jennifer Ryan”