When Andy Correns's mother died, he wrote a no-holds-barred, painfully honest obituary for her, which really struck readers, and ended up going viral, reaching people all over the world and getting strong reactions, both positive and negative. Thus, this memoir was born, a memoir of his mother, both a celebration and a denigration, and the …
Freya Lockwood and her Aunt Carole are back into his sequel to the popular Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder (which we previously reviewed HERE) When a painting goes missing from a maritime museum and a dead body is found, they're on the case under the banner of their new business as stolen antiquities hunters. The …
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In the Summer of 1966, Robert decides to realise his dream of opening a cafe when he sees the dilapidated corner cafe in the Carmelite market Square in Vienna is closing. A war orphan, raised by nuns, Robert is a kind and hardworking man, and though his cafe is not in a fashionable part of …
Det Vicky Paterson is investigating a bizarre murder in her small town, and barely notices the massive number of cicadas until they've reached plague proportions and attack her child Sadie. Meanwhile, Will and Alicia are private investigators looking for a wealthy heiress who has joined a cult, and their investigation shows a link between the …
This book of short stories, titled Doomed Romances: Strange Tales of Uncanny Love is from the British Library Tales of the Weird series. It features 12 stories of doomed or dark romances from some best loved authors, from Mary Shelley and Wilkie Collins to Angela Carter and Nalo Hopkinson. A nice snap shot of this …
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Clove lives the life of her dreams: A loving husband, two gorgeous children, a beautiful home with organic foods and a full closet, but the fears of her secret past coming to light or history repeating means she compulsively takes supplements and uses affirmations and impulse buying to keep the lies she's told in place. …
When Flora gives birth to baby Iris a few weeks prematurely, her husband is still deployed overseas, and she finds herself struggling to cope alone. She starts to see strange beetle infestations, has night terrors, and her childhood imaginary friend re-emerges. In a moment of desperation, she emails her estranged mother, who responds by turning …
Maple Bay, Nova Scotia, is famous for it's stories of buried pirate treasure which has fascinated locals and tourists for generations. It's also a town full of secrets. When three strangers converge on the small town, they set off a chain of events that brings long held secrets to light, and leads to murder. Tom …
Subtitled "15 portals to wonder through science and poetry", The Universe in Verse is a lovely illustrated volume of poetry and science, which explores the sense of wonder in life and our experiences, and how these two different things, literature and scientific discovery, overlap. It features chapters that start with a short essay about a …
Det Kaitlyn Kruse has a very unusual ability: she dreams about her past lives, and the memories help her solve her cases, often through the professional knowledge of her past selves. When investigating a crime on a Seattle hiking trail, Kruse and her partner Joe think they may have found the body of a missing …
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