What's it about? Imagine a world very close to our own: where women are not safe in their bodies, where desperate measures are required to raise a daughter. This is the story of Grace, Lia and Sky, kept apart from the world for their own good and taught the terrible things that every woman must... Continue Reading →
Book Review: The Mystery of Three Quarters by Sophie Hannah
What's it about? Returning home after lunch one day, Hercule Poirot finds an angry woman waiting outside his front door. She demands to know why Poirot has sent her a letter accusing her of the murder of Barnabas Pandy, a man she has neither heard of nor ever met. Poirot has also never heard of... Continue Reading →
Book Review: The Chosen Ones by Howard Linskey
What's it about? Eva Dunbar wakes in a metal box. She has no idea who put her there and she has no way out. Leading the search for her, DCI Ian Bradshaw has no leads and time to find Eva is running out. Then he realises she isn't the first girl to disappear in these... Continue Reading →
Book Review: Letters to Iris by Elizabeth Noble
What's it about? Tess has a secret, a baby-shaped secret that will be making its entrance in nine short months. But that isn't the only thing keeping her awake at night; her beloved grandmother Iris is slipping away just when Tess needs her most. Unexpectedly alone, Tess strikes up a friendship with Gigi, a friendly... Continue Reading →
Book Review: The Smoke Thieves by Sally Green
What's it about? A princess, a traitor, a soldier, a hunter and a thief. In Brigant, Princess Catherine prepares for a political marriage arranged by her brutal and ambitious father, while her true love, Ambrose, faces the executioner's block. In Calidor, downtrodden servant March seeks revenge on the prince who betrayed his people. In Pitoria,... Continue Reading →
Book Review: Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore
What's it about? It is 1792 and Europe is seized by political turmoil and violence. Lizzie Fawkes has grown up in a Radical household where each step of the French Revolution is followed with eager idealism. But she has recently married John Diner Tredevant, a property developer who has heavily invested in Bristol’s housing boom,... Continue Reading →
Book Review: The Cows by Dawn O’Porter
What's it about? Tara, Cam and Stella are strangers living their own lives. Yet an extraordinary event brings them to within touching distance of each other, and one woman's catastrophe becomes another's inspiration. This is a story about judging others and being judged, and finding yourself amidst the noise of modern life. My thoughts My... Continue Reading →
Book Review: A Dark So Deadly by Stuart MacBride
What's it about? Welcome to the Misfit Mob, where Police Scotland dumps the wayward and troublesome officers it can't put anywhere else. It's where they dump the going-nowhere cases too, right on the desk of DC Callum MacGregor. When an ancient mummy is found in Oldcastle tip, it's Callum's job to track down whichever dusty... Continue Reading →
Book Review: The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde by Eve Chase
What's it about? Applecote Manor captures Jessie's imagination the first time that she sees it. She's so sure it's the perfect escape for her troubled family. Yet the house has a certain air about it, something that she can't quite pin down. Back in the fifties, Margot and her sisters are visiting their aunt and uncle... Continue Reading →