Published By: Angry RobotPages: 400Released On: 09/01/2024 Set in a world of the near future, the celebrity elite have access to a technology that allows them to make perfect copies of themselves, known as Portraits. These Portraits exist to fulfil all the various duties that come as the price of fame. Our protagonist is theContinue reading “Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock – Maud Woolf”
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A Concert For Christmas – Helen Hawkins
Published By: Allison & BusbyPages: 384Released On: 23/11/2023 Schoolteacher Sophie Lawson has fled to the Cotswold countryside after a tragic break-up and is throwing herself into dating and organising Cranswell’s annual Christmas concert. The festive fun is marred by the arrival of a handsome but surly musical director, tricky pupils and concert preparations falling intoContinue reading “A Concert For Christmas – Helen Hawkins”
Once a Monster – Robert Dinsdale
Published By: MacmillanPages: 512Released On: 21/09/2023 London, 1861: Ten-year-old Nell belongs to a crew of mudlarks who work a stretch of the Thames along the Ratcliffe Highway. An orphan since her mother died four years past, leaving Nell with only broken dreams and a pair of satin slippers in her possession, she spends her daysContinue reading “Once a Monster – Robert Dinsdale”
The Book of Beginnings – Sally Page
Published By: HarperCollinsPages: 416Released On: 28/09/2023 Jo Sorsby is hiding from her past when she agrees to run her uncle’s beloved stationery shop. Glimpsing the lives of her customers between the warm wooden shelves, as they scribble little notes and browse colourful notebooks, distracts her from her bruised heart. When she meets Ruth, a vicarContinue reading “The Book of Beginnings – Sally Page”
The Crash – Robert Peston
Published By: ZaffrePages: 400Released On: 14/09/2023 London, 2007. It’s summer in the City: the economy is booming, profits are up and the stock market sits near record highs.But journalist Gil Peck is a lone voice worrying it can’t last. Deep in the plumbing of the financial system, he has noticed strange things happening which could threatenContinue reading “The Crash – Robert Peston”
More Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up – Alexandra Potter
Published By: MacmillanPages: 512Released On: 17/08/2023 There is no magical land you finally arrive at where everything is figured out, fixed and sorted. Life, like us, is a sum of moving parts, and if we’re lucky, we get to keep f**king up, figuring it out and laughing in the face of it all. Nell’s back.Continue reading “More Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up – Alexandra Potter”
Normal Rules Don’t Apply – Kate Atkinson
Published By: DoubledayPages: 240Released On 24/08/2023 In this first full collection since Not the End of the World, we meet a queen who makes a bargain she cannot keep; a secretary who watches over the life she has just left; a man whose luck changes when a horse speaks to him.With clockwork intricacy, inventiveness and sharpContinue reading “Normal Rules Don’t Apply – Kate Atkinson”
Don’t Swipe Right – L.M Chilton
Published By: Head of ZeusPages: 400Released On: 22/06/2023 Finding true love can be murder. Reeling from a disastrous break-up with her long-term boyfriend, Gwen Turner is on a mission to move on, as fast as possible. The only problem? Each man she meets on new dating app Connector is even more toxic than the last.Continue reading “Don’t Swipe Right – L.M Chilton”
The Missing American – Julie Highmore
Published By: The Book FolksPages: 265Released On: 11/04/2023 New to the private investigator game, Edie Fox is delighted when a handsome American client with disconcertingly dazzling teeth asks her to find his missing cousin, Isabella. Especially when he leaves her a bundle of cash to get started. However, the case quickly gets complicated, and soContinue reading “The Missing American – Julie Highmore”
Death and the Conjuror – Tom Mead
Published By: Head of ZeusPages: 272Released On: 02/02/2023 1936, London. A celebrity psychiatrist is discovered dead in his locked study. There seems to be no way a killer could have escaped unseen. There are no clues, no witnesses, and no evidence of the murder weapon. Stumped by the confounding scene, Inspector Flint, the Scotland YardContinue reading “Death and the Conjuror – Tom Mead”
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