Synopsis: In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders. But when a brutal killing takes place on their… Read more “#bookreview The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman”
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#bookreview The Ghost Woods by C.J. Cooke published by HarperCollins
Synopsis: In the midst of the woods stands a house called Lichen Hall. This place is shrouded in folklore – old stories of ghosts, of witches, of… Read more “#bookreview The Ghost Woods by C.J. Cooke published by HarperCollins”
#bookreview Night Music by Jojo Moyes
Synopsis: The Spanish House is a hotch-potch of designs, Georgian, Gothic and Moorish, as if whoever started it had simply got bored. It has long been known… Read more “#bookreview Night Music by Jojo Moyes”
#bookreview The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin
Bookseller synopsis: August 1939: London prepares for war as Hitler’s forces sweep across Europe. Grace Bennett has always dreamed of moving to the city, but the bunkers… Read more “#bookreview The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin”
#bookreview Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano published by Viking
Amazon: One summer morning, a flight takes off from New York to Los Angeles: there are 192 people aboard. When the plane suddenly crashes, twelve-year-old Edward Adler… Read more “#bookreview Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano published by Viking”
#bookreview The Little Wartime Library by Kate Thompson published by Hodder&Stoughton
Bookseller synopsis: London, 1944. Clara Button is no ordinary librarian. While the world remains at war, in East London Clara has created the country’s only underground library,… Read more “#bookreview The Little Wartime Library by Kate Thompson published by Hodder&Stoughton”
#bookreview The Mad Womens Ball by Victoria Mas
Bookseller synopsis: The Salpêtrière asylum, 1885. All of Paris is in thrall to Doctor Charcot and his displays of hypnotism on women who have been deemed mad… Read more “#bookreview The Mad Womens Ball by Victoria Mas”
#bookreview The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex published by Picador
Bookseller synopsis: They say we’ll never know what happened to those men. They say the sea keeps its secrets . . . ‘A mystery, a love story and… Read more “#bookreview The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex published by Picador”
#bookreview The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley
Synopsis Come home, if you remember.The postcard has been held at the sorting office for ninety-one years, waiting to be delivered to Joe Tournier. On the front… Read more “#bookreview The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley”
#bookreview The Clockwork Girl by Anna Mazzola published by Orion early 2022
Synopsis: Paris, 1750. In the midst of an icy winter, as birds fall frozen from the sky, chambermaid Madeleine Chastel arrives at the home of the city’s… Read more “#bookreview The Clockwork Girl by Anna Mazzola published by Orion early 2022”
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