On Bee's Bookshelf

Ten Years - Pernille Hughes  ⭐⭐⭐ Genre: Romance | Released: 31/08/2022 Ghost Love - Lisa Taddeo  ⭐⭐⭐ Genre: Short Stories | Released: 14/06/2022 Permission - Jo Bloom  ⭐⭐⭐ Genre: Fiction | Released: 28/07/2022 Tasting Sunlight - Ewald Arenz  ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Genre: Literary Fiction | Released: 23/04/2022  Communication at the workplace - Phil Robert Lucky  ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Genre: Non-Fiction | Released: 08/09/2021 The Setup - Lizzy Dent  ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Genre: Romance | Released: 09/06/2022 The Favour - Nora Murphy  ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Genre: Thriller | Released: 09/06/2022 Angel Town - Fiona Cane  ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Genre: Thriller | Released: 16/06/2022 Twelve Percent Dread - Emily McGovern    ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Genre: Graphic Novel | Released: 23/06/2022 Nothing Else - Louise Beech  ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Genre: Fiction | Released: 23/04/2022 The Apartment Upstairs - Lesley Kara  ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Genre: Thriller | Released: 23/06/2022 Grown Ups - Marie Aubert  ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Genre: Fiction | Released: 21/06/2022 Note to Self - Ann...

  Genre: Romance | Contemporary Fiction Release Date: Expected 31st August 2022 Publisher: Harper Collins UK  "Love at first sight was also a theoretical myth. Love at first sight only really became so if it lasted." Becca and Charlie only have one thing in common - Ally.  Ally decided Becca was her best friend when they were ten, and was there through her childhood, through her parents divorce and neglect, and her constant failed auditions and bad jobs. So when Ally started dating Charlie at university, they got along for her sake.  But when they lose her, she leaves something behind for them to find - a bucket list of sorts for them to finish for her. So as much as they were ready to say goodbye for good, they're going to be together for years to come because they'd do anything for Ally.  But who knows what's really at the end of the path if they just let themselves go down it together? " We're entitled to mourn as we need to and rebuild ourselves....

  Genre: Memoir | Graphic Novel | LGBTQIA+ Release Date: Expected 5th July 2022 Publisher: Oni Press Maia Kobabe (e/em/eir) didn't think ey would ever write a graphic novel based on eir life - but here it is in all it's glory. This autobiographical memoir lets us journey with Maia into eir chilhood, and through moments in life full of confusion, realisation and discovery in it's unfiltered, uncompromising authenticity.  " These realisations were like gifts I gave myself." This story flowed beautifully, each key moment being remembered with striking detail with beautiful reflections - from discovering that different sexualities are possible, to the different ways of coming out, to the pride and beautiful content that comes with self-actualisation.  Aside from this, ey provide stunning discourse on the universal magic of reading, the profound impact of a supportive family and the strange assumptions and expectations placed on women and AFAB people.  The visual style...

Genre: Women's Fiction | Romance | Mystery Release Date: Expected 23rd June 2022 Publisher: Pan Macmillan "The problem with lying to your husband is that it changes everything and nothing." Emma was late to her own wedding because she had to stop and photograph the tide … in her wedding dress. But Leo married her anyway, because that was Emma and he loved her regardless. But the woman he's loved for a decade, the woman he married and raised his daughter with isn't Emma. Emma doesn't exist. His wife is a stranger, and he doesn't even know her real name. He only found out by chance; when she got sick he started to write about her, about her life, but even his job as an obituary writer couldn't prepare him for trying to write about someone like Emma.  His digging didn't just bring up dirt, it brought up something worse - little loose threads in her life that began to unravel. And now Emma needs to try and prove to her husband that despite all the secr...

Heather Harris lives and breathes music, so when the chance to play piano on a cruise ship presents itself, she can’t wait to play, to travel, to perform, and most importantly, to get away. To get away and research what really happened all those years ago, when her parents died and her little sister Harriet disappeared  without a trace.  Spending her days combing through evidence she’s finally got the courage to find, acquired from her childhood years, she tries to drown out the violent memories she’s tried to forget about the years gone by, and once she does, maybe she’ll start to finally get her head above water and see what’s ahead for the first time in years. Because even after all these years , without Harriet there is nothing else.  “In my dream that night, we were both in a glow. Harriet and me. Side by side, we shared it. First it came from flames that devoured a car; then from the sun rising over the ocean; finally, it came from a theatre spotlight, intense, bl...

  Genre: Contemporary Fiction | Science Fiction | Romance Release Date: Expected 4th August 2022 Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton "A book synopsis is fundamentally ridiculous. How can I possibly convey, in only 100 words, the events of the past year and their impact on my perfectly ordered existence? It is insufficient space to accurately detail how I was blackmailed into demonstrating my flawless algorithm to find a soulmate, despite having no desire for one. In my former life I avoided trivial human connections. I was alone, accomplished and brilliant. Unfortunately, that solitary and driven woman no longer exists. My name is Indiana Dylan and this is the extraordinary account of how I fell in love. There: 100 words exactly." Love and Other Human Errors is not your average love story - we follow Indiana as she creates a new technology - TRU - that can scientifically match perfect universal soulmates despite the fact she finds romantic love rather useless, and the employees...

  Genre: Fiction | Contemporary Fiction Release Date: 9th June 2022 Publisher: Penguin Michael Joseph On a day that started like any other, Meredith Maggs couldn't walk out the front door. And now, 1,214 days later, she hasn't done it since.  She's been living behind her red door on her own, but she isn't alone. She writes freelance from her house with her cat Fred, her friend Sadie pops by for tea and she's surrounded with poetry, books, puzzles - and her thoughts.  But then, she opens up the door to some unexpected new friends and her estranged sister decides to cross the threshold too. Her silent sanctuary isn't as quiet anymore, and the door that once only opened to let groceries come in is starting to look like it could be a way out.  Meredith, Alone is an achingly real and authentic novel about life after trauma, and the restorative power of friendship.  Meredith was stunning - an endearing and beautiful person. She starts of very matter-of-fact and m...

  Lola has never know anything but The Guardians of God. She has lived in peace in the Commune with her family, waiting for the day their leader Michael has called Ascension Day. The day the world will end, and they will all ascend into the heavens and be reunited with God to spend their afterlives as angels. She's never been into the 'otherworld', never had a reason to think anything different.  So she's honoured but unsettled when she's summoned to live with their leader, to the confusion of everyone else - and even makes a new friend there, Jos, who has joined them from the outside. Miles away, Donna continues her search for her wayward son - until that search brings her to a commune deep in the desert - but finds as peaceful and harmonious as they claim to be, something terrible is happening. She can't get in, nobody inside can get out - and she's sure her son is in there. But why?  And with Ascension day just a few months away, time is running out wheth...

  Genre: Contemporary Fiction | Womens Fiction Released: 26th May 2022 Publisher: Bonnier Books | Manilla Press Emily met Tamsin in jail - after being arrested at a climate process. When she left that cell, she had no idea how much her life was about to change. Her new friend was an actress, living a life of glamour, excitement and extravagance that soon had Emily lured in and forgetting everything about who she was before as she basked in the warmth of Tamsins spotlight and friendship. But then, their shiny new life shatters as awful traumatic secrets from Tamsins past claw their way to the surface and the darkness even her shiny spotlight can't keep away takes over all over again.  Early on this book, Tamsin says ' It's gross, and it's gorgeous. And they can both be true at the same time.' - that is exactly how I feel about this book. It's simply gorgeous, beautifully written and striking, but enters the gross, dark and uncomfortable parts of reality in bold a...

  " It felt good to work together. Because the other person ensured that you recognised your own place in the whole. All of a sudden, you had a significance in the whole, and you weren't simply existing." Sally and Liss don't need anybody, they never had. But now, they might finally have someone they want.  When young sally runs away from the rehab her parents sent her to to recover from her eating disorder, she just wants to be lone with her anger when she stumbles across Liss who is running a quiet farm far away from everyone, who silently offers her a home without demand or question. In their silence and isolation, something stirs - a friendship, a connection between two women who on the surface have nothing in common but underneath share the same broken heart and deep loneliness. And maybe, by finally connecting with another person, they can finally reconnect with themselves.  "It was a different kind of fury. Like … furious sympathy. She hated it. She wanted...

  What if the world stopped working? Signy lives in the London with her son Jed and boyfriend Matthew. And to be honest, they're only together because of Jed. Despite living in a world much like ours but far more technologically superior, her life is boring, dull and grey. But then, it goes black and leaves her and the rest of the world in the dark. The lights won't turn on. Their phones stop working. Robots and droids malfunction. Even the water stops pumping. Matthew agrees with the Government statements - that it's just an outage, a glitch, and it'll be fixed in a few hours. But he's wrong as usual - the world is beyond fixing now.  Signy needs to get Jed out of the city, a place now full of desperation and violence, and tries to make her way to the small village her parents live in. She needs to find some kind of safety for him, no matter what.  But to survive on such a fragile earth, she will need to find strength like never before.  This Fragile Earth is a sta...

  Genre: Contemporary | Thriller | LGBT+  Release Date: 7th June 2022 Publisher: HQ "If you want to know the story of how my best friend and I ended up trying to kill each other, I should probably start with the night she asked me to be her maid of honour." Robin is so happy for her sort-of best friend, Ellie. She's getting married and has asked Robin to take up the title of Maid of Honour. So now she's trying her best to keep smiling through the talk of traditional weddings (which she hates), dealing with her fiancé (who she hates even more), trying to navigate the constant bridal disasters (like unmatching nail polish!) and even the bizarre and dangerous pre-wedding rituals that have become common since the government have been pushing heterosexual marriages to combat their dramatic decline.  Ellie was there for Robin through everything, so it's her turn - but as the big day draws closer, Ellie gets desperate and frantic to make sure her marriage will be perfect...

Genre: Contemporary Fiction | Adult Fiction Release Date: 19th May 2022 Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Milly thought she'd be a master of many things at 28, but being a widow wasn't one of them. But after two years of practice, she's got really good at pretending she's okay with it. She's gotten good at avoiding dates, dodging those awkward questions people still ask her, and even pretending on the internet she has some type of social life. But behind the screens, when the doors are closed, her life is empty and the only person she talks to is her late husband who can't even reply to her messages. Then, she does something that changes everything again and Mizzenial is born - a platform made for authenticity, honesty and openness. Like the magazines she read as a girl, she encourages everyone to live their truth, speak straight from the heart and share their own thoughts about life. But even if this safe space she's created, she's struggling to open up...

  Genre: Contemporary Romance | Romance  Release Date: Expected 7th June 2022 Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Nora knows romance - it's literally her job. But the romance screenwriters life gets a huge rewrite when her husband suddenly leaves her and their children behind and she uses that heartbreak and resentment to create her best work yet - the tea house.  There's no time to think about the loss as her home is filled with cameras and crew, shooting her own story on location and providing plenty of distraction - including the smouldering Leo Vance, the man playing her ex-husband only much sexier and more successful.  But soon enough, filming ends and she's left alone with her thoughts - but not for long. Leo appears on the doorstep, a little drunk, with an interesting proposal. If she lets him stay for just another week, let him live a somewhat normal life with her, he'll pay a thousand pounds a day.  Seven days - it's not a long time at all. But Nora write...