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The Long and Winding Road; My Autobiography by Lesley Cooper
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Michael Joseph (29 Feb. 2024)Language ‏ : ‎ EnglishHardcover ‏ : ‎ 384 pagesISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0241453208ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0241453209 Book Blurb One of the world’s bestselling storytellers, Lesley Pearse writes brilliantly about survivors. Why? Because she is one herself . . .o Born during the Second World War, Lesley’s innocence came to an abrupt end when a neighbour found her, aged…
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The Collapsing Wave (The Enceladons Trilogy Book 2) by Doug Johnstone
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Orenda Books (14 Mar. 2024)Language ‏ : ‎ EnglishPaperback ‏ : ‎ 300 pagesISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 191678805XISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1916788053 Book Blurb Six months since the earth-shattering events of The Space Between Us, the revelatory hope of the aliens’ visit has turned to du and the creatures have disappeared into the water off Scotland’s west coast. Teenager Lennox and grieving mother…
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All Good Things by Amanda Prowse
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lake Union Publishing (15 Aug. 2023)Language ‏ : ‎ EnglishPaperback ‏ : ‎ 319 pagesISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 154202482XISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1542024822 Book Blurb Daisy Harrop has always felt like she exists in the background, and since her mother stopped getting out of bed, her life has come to a complete standstill. Daisy would give anything to leave the shabbiest house on the street and be…
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Clairemont by by Lesley McDowell
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wildfire (29 Feb. 2024)Language ‏ : ‎ EnglishHardcover ‏ : ‎ 400 pagesISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1035400243ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1035400249 Book Blurb A massive volcanic eruption has caused the worst storms that Europe has seen in decades, yet Percy and Mary Shelley have chosen to visit the infamous Lord Byron at his villa on Lake Geneva. It wasn’t their idea: Mary’s eighteen year old…
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To Cage A God by Elizabeth May
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Daphne Press (20 Feb. 2024)Language ‏ : ‎ EnglishHardcover ‏ : ‎ 448 pagesISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1837840180ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1837840182 Book Blurb To cage a god is divine. To be divine is to rule. To rule is to destroy. Using ancient secrets, Galina and Sera’s mother grafted gods into their bones. Bound to brutal deities and granted forbidden power no commoner has held in a thousand years,…
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The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bantam (15 Feb. 2024)Language ‏ : ‎ EnglishHardcover ‏ : ‎ 416 pagesISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1787637247ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1787637245 Book Blurb Because some doors should never be opened. New York bookseller Cassie Andrews is not sure what she’s doing with her life. She lives quietly, sharing an apartment with her best friend, Izzy. Then a favourite customer gives her an old book. Full of…
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The Women by Kristen Hannah no
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Macmillan; Main Market edition (15 Feb. 2024)Language ‏ : ‎ EnglishHardcover ‏ : ‎ 480 pagesISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1035005670ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1035005673 Book BlurbIt would be the journey of a lifetime . . . ‘Women can be heroes, too’. When twenty-year-old nursing student, Frances “Frankie” McGrath, hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on California’s idyllic Coronado…
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Luminocity by Daniel McDaniel
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Endless Equinox (1 Feb. 2024)Language ‏ : ‎ EnglishPaperback ‏ : ‎ 450 pagesISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 615018885XISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-6150188850 Book Blurb Find your strength in the light, or lose your chains in the darkness. Three sun gods bathe the city of legends, Luminocity, in their blessed light. The city stands on the decaying ruins of an ancient civilization. Skeletal skyscrapers guard…
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The Kingdom of Sweets by Erika Johansen
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bantam (30 Nov. 2023)Language ‏ : ‎ EnglishHardcover ‏ : ‎ 368 pagesISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1787632369ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1787632363 Book Blurb Light and dark – this is the destiny placed upon Natasha and Clara, the birthright bestowed on them by their godfather, the mysterious sorcerer Drosselmeyer. Clara, the favourite, grows into beauty and ease, while Natasha is cursed to live in her…
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The Lover of no Fixed Abode by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bitter Lemon Press; Fiction – Crime edition (25 Jan. 2024)Language ‏ : ‎ EnglishPaperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pagesISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1913394905ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1913394905 Book Blurb It begins with a troubling encounter on a flight to Venice. She is a Roman aristocrat and art dealer on the search for undervalued paintings and he a mysterious tour guide. She is invited to cosmopolitan parties by…
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The Quest (Egyptian Series Book 4) by Wilbur Smith
ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1785766961Publisher ‏ : ‎ Zaffre (28 Jun. 2018)Language ‏ : ‎ EnglishPaperback ‏ : ‎ 640 pagesISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781785766961ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1785766961 Book Blurb Renowned magus Taita is now over a hundred years old and has ascended to a new level of wisdom and understanding about his world. But he must prepare himself for the biggest threat Egypt has ever faced: the great plagues and…
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Code Name Butterfly by Embassie Susberry
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Avon (4 Jan. 2024)Language ‏ : ‎ EnglishPaperback ‏ : ‎ 432 pagesISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0008591512ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0008591519 Book Blurb Paris, 1941. With Nazi occupation imminent, journalist Elodie Mitchell plans to return home to Chicago. But an unexpected invitation to a Josephine Baker show changes everything. Mistaken for the star, Elodie is whisked backstage, where she uncovers an…
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Upon A Frosted Star by M.A. Kuzniar
Publisher ‏ : ‎ HQ (21 Sept. 2023)Language ‏ : ‎ EnglishHardcover ‏ : ‎ 384 pagesISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0008450714ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0008450717 Book Blurb The invitations always arrive the same way – without warning, appearing around the city on the first snowfall of the year, simply inscribed with ‘Tonight.’ When struggling artist, Forster, finds an invitation, he’s bewitched by the magic of the evening,…
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My Favourite Reads of 2023
I can’t believe how quickly 2023 has passed, but here we are in 2024. I was spoiled last year as so many of my favourite authors released new books, and many of them are on my list of favourite reads of 2023. I may not have read as many books as usual, due to health problems, but what I lacked in quantity I more than made up for in quality. So here are my favourite books of last year. Added: 2023…
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After the Forest by Kell Woods
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Titan Publ (3 Oct. 2023)Language ‏ : ‎ EnglishHardcover ‏ : ‎ 480 pagesISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1803361352ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1803361352 Book Blurb Fifteen years after the witch in the gingerbread house, Greta and Hans are struggling to get by. Their father and stepmother are long dead, Hans is deeply in debt from gambling, and the countryside lies in ruin, its people starving in the aftermath…
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The Point Where The Ocean Ends by Siobhan Murphy
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gade Valley Press (23 Dec. 2022)Language ‏ : ‎ EnglishPaperback ‏ : ‎ 322 pagesISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1739273303ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1739273309 Book Blurb As winter turns to spring on the North Cornish coast, Kerensa O’Connell receives an unexpected message relating to a passionate relationship from deep in her past. A message which stirs up vivid memories, and threatens to derail the…
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The Shimmer on the Water by Marina McCarron
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Aria (10 Nov. 2022)Language ‏ : ‎ EnglishPaperback ‏ : ‎ 464 pagesISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1801104441ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1801104449 Book Blurb Three women. Two generations apart. One secret they share. Maine, 1997. As the people of Fort Meadow Beach celebrate the Fourth of July, four-year-old Daisy Wright disappears and is never seen again. Maine, Present Day. Fired from her job and…
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