Books to Watch in 2022!

Metronome - Tom Watson

Expected March 2022 (Bloomsbury)

A striking piece of literary fiction that follows two exiled people living on an Island, tethered to it by pills they have to take every eight hours to survive. Nothing is as it seems in this eerie poetic novel.

Impossible - Sarah Lotz
Expected March 2022 (Harper Collins UK)

Impossible is a love story like any other - two people fall in love after connecting over a stray email to find their relationship is more than complicated. Electrifying and alluring all the way to the heartbreakingly epic denouement - this story is impossible to put down.

The Measure - Nicki Erlick

Expected July 2022 (Harper Collins UK)

You wake up one morning and a there's a box on your doorstep. Inside, is the answer to how long you have left to live - do you open it? The Measure is a multi-perspective journey into a unique type of dystopia both haunting and exhilarating.

Stepping Up - Sarah Turner

Expected March 2022 (Random House UK)

After Beth loses her sister and takes custody of her niece and nephew, she has to very quickly learn to get her life in order and step up. Brimming with heart, this was a beautiful journey of loss, love and self-discovery.

Nobody But Us - Laure Van Rensburg

Expected April 2022 (Penguin Michael Joseph UK)

A romantic weekend away between a prominent professor and a fiery student turns into something much darker. A sinister twisty thriller full of tension and brimming with secrets.

Yinka, Where Is Your Huszband? - Lizzie Damiola Blackburn

Expected March 2022 (Penguin General UK)

This brilliant rom-com follows Yinka as she tries to find a date for her cousins wedding, dreading the question she knows her family will never stop asking. A fun, beautiful story about self-love and growth that will leave you smiling and laughing.

Am I Allergic To Men - Kristen Bailey

Expected February 2022 (Bookouture)

In the brilliant conclusion to the Callaghan Sisters pentalogy, youngest sister Lucy has loses a fight with a bus while dressed as Elsa and loses the last decade of her life and has to find herself all over again while her sisters are settled and happy. A story packed full of laughter and tears.

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REVIEW: This Could Be Us by Clare McGowan

Genre: Fiction | Literary Fiction Release Date: Expected 1st June 2023 Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group | Corsair Kate has done the unthinkable. She'd worked hard to build a perfect life for herself, while ignoring her growing unhappiness. But when her second child was born profoundly disabled, reality hit. Unable to cope, Kate left - disappearing without a trace. She ends up in LA, with a glittering career and a new family of sorts, but the guilt is still suffocating. Husband Andrew was left to pick up the pieces and care for their disabled daughter and angry, confused son. Bereft and broken, he leaned on Olivia, Kate's best friend. She's been by his side ever since, ignoring her own needs to meet his. Years later, Andrew has written a memoir about his daughter learning to communicate against all odds. But when Kate's new producer husband decides he wants to make a film of it, their worlds collide once again. Now, Kate must return to the life she abandoned and reck...

REVIEW: Live, Laugh, Lesbian by Helen Scott

Genre: Non-Fiction | Memoir | LGTBQ+ Release Date: 19th October 2023 Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Part memoir, part guide, part conversation and all queer joy — Live, Laugh, Lesbian is a brilliantly warm and friendly journey into the queer experience, not only from the author but from plenty of other lesbian, queer, bisexual and pansexual contributors who bring a unique viewpoint and voice and also show a beautiful diverse, intersectional scope of the queer spectrum and welcomes in queer people and allies of any kind to come feel the love. The book is very conversational, talking to the reader in a fun, friendly way — at times I rolled my eyes as the use of “famalam” but as a previous patron of Colours and Chicagos I’m not in a position to judge the Essex-isms. It’s full of anecdotes and observations that were witty and relatable as well as talking is through the more difficult side of queerness like dealing with workplace discrimination, religious trauma and coming out to family...

BOOK TOUR STOP x RANDOM THINGS TOURS: Thirty Days of Darkness by Jenny Lund Madsen

" This town has secrets that are best left alone." Author Hannah is a success, on paper at least. She's receiving critical acclaim and praise worldwide and her work is regarded as some of the best. She writes literature, not just books. But the reality is, outside of the literary circles nobody actually reads her work. But when she finally snaps at a book event and publicly criticises the genre fiction books that outsell hers, claiming they're easy and mindless she's challenged to write her own crime fiction novel in just thirty days by an author she loathes. Desperate not to lose to him, her editor arranges for her to spend a month in a quiet, cold village in Iceland hoping that the solitude will spark inspiration. But instead of writing a murder story - she's in one . Just before she arrives, the body of a young man is pulled from the icy waters and her search for ideas soon becomes a search for a killer. And if she's not careful, she might end up the...

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