In The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon we are introduced to Aidan Thomas. He’s a widower, a father, and a well-respected member of the community in small town America. But there’s something nobody knows. He’s holding a woman, known as Rachel, captive in his shed and he’s a serial killer. What is the story about? […]
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The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner is a young adult (Y.A.) coming-of-age novel set in small town Forrestville, Tennessee. The story centres on the secrets, hopes and fears of three high school misfits. What is The Serpent King about? The main protagonist is Dillard Early Junior, or Dill to his only two loyal friends, Lydia
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The Returning by Ann Tatlock follows the lives of the Sheldon family during one summer at Conesus Lake in upstate New York. John is returning to his family after serving five years for the manslaughter of a hitchhiker he picked up when drunk and then promptly crashed his car. Time has moved on in his
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The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton is a richly layered historical mystery that weaves together the lives of three main characters: Eliza, Nell and Cassandra. What is The Forgotten Garden about? The story begins in 1913 when a young child is found abandoned on an Australian wharf with no memory of who she is. A
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Cartes Postales from Greece is the second novel I’ve read by Victoria Hislop. But then, I’m not entirely sure you can call my most recent escape a novel. It’s more of a collection of stories tied together by a lovesick author and a young woman stuck in a rut. What is Cartes Postales from Greece
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Black Rock by Amanda Smyth was her debut novel and it is set on Trinidad and Tobago during the 1950s. It follows sixteen-year-old Cecilia who arrived into the world as her mother departed it. Her English father doesn’t know of her existence so she is raised by her Aunt Tassi and lives with her and
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Sunrise on the Reaping is Suzanne Collins’ long-anticipated return to Panem, serving as the fifth instalment in The Hunger Games series. It’s a prequel and set twenty four years before the original dystopian trilogy. The prequel is concerned with the fiftieth Hunger Games. The Quarter Quell and a particularly brutal one, where twice the number
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Ted A Pawtobiography by Ted the Dog is a light-hearted ‘sniff and tell’ from the characterful canine in the hit BBC show Gone Fishing. If you’ve watched Gone Fishing with Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer, you’ll be aware of a rascally four-legged hound that often makes an appearance. He’s a gruff, bark-it-how-it-is type who’s also
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None of This is True by Lisa Jewell is a psychological thriller charting the relationship between two very different women. Alix Summer, a successful podcaster and Josie Fair, a disillusioned seamstress who’s lived the same life for thirty years. “‘Hi!’ says Josie, her voice coming out higher than she’d imagined. ‘I’m your birthday twin!’” It’s
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Three Fevers by Leo Walmsley follows the trials and tribulations of the Yorkshire Lunn fishing family as they face the eternal struggle with the sea and the Fosdycks. Although this is very much a novel, the 1920s story is based on true events. Written in the 1930s, it’s set in the fictitious storm-ravaged Bramblewick. However,
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