Published By: Michael JosephPages: 368Released On: 19/01/2023 Grace Adams is one bad day away from saving her life.One hot summer day, stuck in traffic on her way to pick up the cake for her daughter’s sixteenth birthday party, Grace Adams snaps. She doesn’t scream or break something or cry. She simply abandons her car andContinue reading “Amazing Grace Adams – Fran Littlewood”
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The Salt Path – Raynor Winn
Published By: PenguinPages: 288Released On: 22/03/2018 Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years, is terminally ill, their home is taken away and they lose their livelihood. With nothing left and little time, they make the brave and impulsive decision to walk the 630 miles of the sea-swept South West CoastContinue reading “The Salt Path – Raynor Winn”
Strange Sally Diamond – Liz Nugent
Published By: PenguinPages: 384Released On: 02/03/2023 Sally Diamond cannot understand why what she did was so strange. She was only doing what her father told her to do, to put him out with the rubbish when he died. Now Sally is the centre of attention, not only from the hungry media and police detectives, butContinue reading “Strange Sally Diamond – Liz Nugent”
The Drift – CJ Tudor
Published By: Michael JosephPages: 400Released On: 19/01/2023 Survival can be murder . . . Hannah awakens to carnage, all mangled metal and shattered glass. Evacuated from a secluded boarding school during a snowstorm, her coach careered off the road, trapping her with a handful of survivors. Meg awakens to a gentle rocking. She’s in aContinue reading “The Drift – CJ Tudor”
Clytemnestra – Costanza Casati
Published By: Michael JosephPages: 480Released On: 02/03/2023 Mother. Monarch. Murderer. Magnificent. You are born to a king, but marry a tyrant. You stand helplessly as he sacrifices your child to placate the gods. You watch him wage war on a foreign shore and comfort yourself with violent thoughts of your own. You play the part,Continue reading “Clytemnestra – Costanza Casati”
Dear Dolly – Dolly Alderton
Published By: Penguin Fig TreePages: 240Released On: 27/10/2022 Since early 2020, Dolly Alderton has been sharing her wisdom, warmth and wit with the countless people who have written in to her Dear Dolly agony aunt column in The Sunday Times Style. Their questions range from the painfully – and sometimes hilariously – relatable to the occasionally bizarre. They includeContinue reading “Dear Dolly – Dolly Alderton”
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”
And Finally – Henry Marsh
Published By: Penguin Random HousePages: 240Released On: 01/09/2022 As a retired brain surgeon, Henry Marsh thought he understood illness, but he was unprepared for the impact of his diagnosis of advanced cancer. And Finally explores what happens when someone who has spent a lifetime on the frontline of life and death finds himself contemplating what mightContinue reading “And Finally – Henry Marsh”
The Hollow Sea – Annie Kirby
Published By: Penguin Michael JosephPages: 384Released On: 18/08/2022 When Scottie Bains realises that she may never become a mother, she makes the heart-breaking decision to flee to the remote North Atlantic archipelago of St Hia. Lashed by storms and far from the mainland, the islands are dangerous. Many have been lost to the ferocious tidesContinue reading “The Hollow Sea – Annie Kirby”
The Family Upstairs – Lisa Jewell
Published By: PenguinPages: 480Released On: 12/12/2019 In a large house in London’s fashionable Chelsea, a baby is awake in her cot. Well-fed and cared for, she is happily waiting for someone to pick her up. In the kitchen lie three decomposing corpses. Close to them is a hastily scrawled note. They’ve been dead for severalContinue reading “The Family Upstairs – Lisa Jewell”
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