Published By: PicadorPages: 288Released On: 03/04/2024 Abigail and her brother Benjamin have always been close. To celebrate his birthday, Abigail hires a grand old house and gathers their friends together for a murder mystery party. As the night goes on, they drink too much and play games. Relationships are forged, consolidated or frayed. Someone kissesContinue reading “Fair Play – Louise Hegarty”
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The Cat Who Saved the Library – Sosuke Natsukawa
Published By: PicadorPages: 224Released On: 10/04/2025Translated By: Louise Heal Kawai Nanami sees nothing wrong with a library and cat combination. But a talking cat is a whole other story. Thirteen-year-old Nanami Kosaki loves reading. The local library is a home from home and books have become her best friends. When Nanami notices books disappearing fromContinue reading “The Cat Who Saved the Library – Sosuke Natsukawa”
The Lantern of Lost Memories – Sanaka Hiiragi
Published By: PicadorPages: 224Released On: 22/08/2024Translated By: Jesse Kirkwood One photograph, one treasured memory, one chance to go back . . . In a cosy photography studio in the mountains between this world and the next, someone is waking up as if from a dream. A kind man will hand them a hot cup ofContinue reading “The Lantern of Lost Memories – Sanaka Hiiragi”
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”
Maude Horton’s Glorious Revenge – Lizzie Pook
Published By: PicadorPages: 336Released On: 01/02/2024 London, 1850. Constance Horton has disappeared. Maude, her older sister, knows only that Constance abandoned the apothecary they call home, and, disguised as a boy, boarded a ship bound for the Arctic. She never returned. ‘A tragic accident’, the Admiralty called it. But Maude Horton knows something isn’t right.Continue reading “Maude Horton’s Glorious Revenge – Lizzie Pook”
Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth – Natalie Haynes
Published By: PicadorPages: 304Released On: 28/09/2023 We meet Athene, who sprang fully formed from her father’s head: goddess of war and wisdom, guardian of Athens. We run with Artemis, goddess of hunting and protector of young girls (apart from those she decides she wants as a sacrifice). Here is Aphrodite, goddess of sex and desireContinue reading “Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth – Natalie Haynes”
The Doll Factory – Elizabeth MacNeal
Published By: PicadorPages: 336Date Released: 02/05/2019 London. 1850. The Great Exhibition is being erected in Hyde Park and among the crowd watching the spectacle two people meet. For Iris, an aspiring artist, it is the encounter of a moment – forgotten seconds later, but for Silas, a collector entranced by the strange and beautiful, thatContinue reading “The Doll Factory – Elizabeth MacNeal”
This is Going to Hurt – Adam Kay
Published By: PicadorPages: 280Date Released: 12/09/2017 Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more than you. Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, Adam Kay’s “This is Going to Hurt” provides aContinue reading “This is Going to Hurt – Adam Kay”
The Confession – Jessie Burton
Published by: PicadorPages: 455Date released: 24/09/2019Date read: 10/01/2020 One winter’s afternoon on Hampstead Heath in 1980, Elise Morceau meets Constance Holden and quickly falls under her spell. Connie is bold and alluring, a successful writer whose novel is being turned into a major Hollywood film. Elise follows Connie to L.A, a city of strange dreamsContinue reading “The Confession – Jessie Burton”
Writers & Lovers – Lily King
Published by: PicadorPages: 256Date released: 28/05/2020Date read: 28/05/2020 Blindsided by her mother’s sudden death, and wrecked by a recent love affair, Casey Peabody has arrived in Massachusetts in the summer of 1997 without a plan. Her mail consists of wedding invitations and final notices from debt collectors. A former child gold prodigy, she now waitsContinue reading “Writers & Lovers – Lily King”
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