The Darkest Evening is the ninth and latest from Ann Cleeves series featuring detective Vera Stanhope. Vera is driving back from the office when she goes off course in a snowstorm, and comes across a car left with it's door open and an unattended baby inside. As there is no one nearby, she takes the …
Continue reading The Darkest Evening (Vera Stanhope Mystery #9) by Ann Cleeves
Stella lives almost alone at the edge of Winterspell forest, since the death of her mother from a plague and her fathers devastating grief which turned him into an unrecognizable shadow. Raised by her grandmothers ghost and an imp called Peg, her loneliness leads her to go to school in the human world, desperate for …
When Sherri moves to town with her 10 year old daughter Katie, she manages to upset the tight knit and cliquey group of mothers by befriending the grieving widow Rebecca, who has a daughter the same age, and a teenage daughter Alexa. Alexa is at somewhat of a loose end over the Summer, and babysits …
The American Library in Paris has always been a sanctuary for Odile Souchet, so when she grows up, she applies for a job there. But it's 1939, and things are about to change for everyone in France and all over the world. Odile and her co-workers try to keep the library open as the Germans …
Continue reading The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles
In True Freedom, Michael Dean tells the story of America in it's infancy and the events that lead up to the break with Great Britain and the gaining of independance. It follows the course of events over almost 2 decades, taking in historical figures from Thomas Young, Samuel Adams, John Wilkes and Thomas and John …
Stephanie Spence's book Yoga Wisdom has so many stories in it. It celebrates the way that yoga as a practice centres us and helps us find ourselves and navigate life's darker times. The thread that holds this book together is Spence's own story. A woman who was outwardly successful, with a fabulous magazine pubishing job …
The Blackwell family have always lived in their beautiful home, a little apart and a little better than those around them. But since a family tragedy 6 years earlier, Merricat, her sister Constance and their aged and fragile Uncle Julian live there alone, avoiding contact with the hostile village around them. They live by a …
Continue reading We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson
This book is really beautifully bound if you get the hard cover edition. It's soft blue, with embossed gold flowers on the cover, and a swathed Victorian lady pictured in the centre. Perhaps it's slightly beside the point, but I do love a the pleasure of reading a beautifully bound volume. Kate Summerscale once again …
Continue reading Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace: The Private Diary Of A Victorian Lady by Kate Summerscale
On a workplace team building exercise, five women head into the bush in Australia. At the end of the trip, only four emerge. As the women start to tell their story, it's clear that someone is lying. What really happened on that trip? Did someone find out that the missing woman was also an informant …
Crimson Ash is a gripping new young adult thriller and we have one copy to give away! In a dark dystopian future, a disease has ravaged the world, killing off a large part of the population. In response, one man has taken over. He uses mind control to create emotionless soldiers who capture the remaining …
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