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Suicide Thursday - Will Carver  ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Genre: Fiction | Released: 24/11/2022 How to Kill Men and Get Away With It - Katy Brent  ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Genre: Thriller | Released: 12/10/2022 The Pain Tourist - Paul Cleave ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Genre: Thriller | Released: 10/11/2022 The First to Die at the End - Adam Silvera  ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Genre: Contemporary | Released: 04/10/2022 Total October Reads: 4 Total 2022 Reads:    169

Genre: Contemporary | Romance | LGBTQIA+ | Young Adult Release Date: 4th October 2022 Publisher: Harper Collins "I write short stories because I am one. I wish I was a novel." Death-Cast is calling for the very first time. Orion knows he's going to die. He doesn't need anyone to tell him that. His life so far has been a blur of worrying the family that took him in after his parents death and hospital appointments, trying to avoid that inevitable moment the doctors tell him his heart is going to kill him. But then, Death-Cast launces. A revolutionary new service that will change the way we live and die - by calling you on your 'end day' and giving you that last minute chance to live. And now that Orion has signed up, he's going to start living every day as though he got the call.  Then, at a Death-Cast launch party, he meets Valentino. The most beautiful boy he's ever seen, full of life and excitement. He'd just arrived to the city, moving across th...

Genre: Fantasy | Romance | New Adult Fiction Released: 20th September 2022 Publisher: Headline Eternal Always Practice Safe Hex!  Welcome back to Graves Glen, where Gwyn Jones is living her best life. Her family have formed a powerful coven, protecting the town and keeping it alive, she's a well respected witch and her shop something wicked is an undisputed success. There's only one problem - Llewellyn 'wells' Penhallow.  Wells returned to Graves Glen searching for the roots his family had in the town before they were torn from the ground, and maybe find his own life out of the shadow of his bitter father. He didn't expect to arrive home to find Gwyn and a hen party in his living room. And as the dates on the calendar draw closer to Halloween, Gwyn finds herself unable to enjoy her favourite time of the year and instead stuck in a fierce rivalry with Wells and the shop he opened right across from hers. But while they're focused on their petty arguments, trouble ...

  "Only the blink of an eye ago, everything was fine, everything was in order and everything looked promising. Now chaos and disorder threatened to ruin it all." Mathematician Henri has learned recently that you can't predict anything, no matter how good your calculations. The fun park he inherited from his late brother seems to finally be getting under control, the dangerous debts he inherited with it clearing, and his growing relationship with artist Laura is starting to take shape. It feels like everything is finally getting under control. But he doesn't have the time to get settled into his new life before it all starts to go wrong - again. The park is at risk when their suppliers won't sell them the Moose Chute - the must have attraction for success, and they seem to have been taken over by some shady characters who want to make trouble for Henri. And as he tries to untie that Gordion Knot, ghosts from the past return to the park to haunt his life in ways he ...

  "I'm standing in the booze aisle if Waitrose Essex Road, when I see my dead sister. It's the third sighting in as many months." Things aren't going great for Marnie right now. It could be the grief of losing her sister, it could be her publisher threatening to drop her, it could be the vivid dreams she keeps having about having a penis, or it could be that she keeps seeing her sister who's supposed to be dead. Her family don't see the ghost of Perdita, but then again they can barely see Marnie who's still alive, and her husband and kids seem to have no idea what's going on either.  And to top it all off, her actual therapist might be more delusional than she is right now. But when she meets a new friend, Katherine, who might actually be a reincarnated author, maybe another ghost, she knows she has to start piecing it together.  But maybe, there's more to this story. She might be losing her grip on reality, or reality might be losing it's ...

" Salem was meant to be a new beginning, a place where the sharp scent of cinnamon and tea perfumed the air with hope; a place where the colours could be safe and alive in me. I was nineteen years old and Nathaniel Hawthorne was twenty-four when we met on those bricked streets. The year was 1829, and we each in our way were struggling to be free - he with his notebooks, I with my needle." When Isobel and her husband flee from the life of debt and betrayal that he caused, she finds herself in a new unfamiliar country, troubled by both her trauma and her strange talents. But soon after arriving, she finds herself drawn to the enigmatic Nathaniel, a man struggling too, fighting with the guilt handed down to him by generations of ancestors who sent countless women to the gallows. As they grow closer, they find their talents may go hand in hand - Isobel can stitch and weave a tale the way Nathaniel can write one. Together, they embark on a journey not only to find the hidden stori...

  When Flosi arrives home, he's looking forward to a peaceful dinner with his wife - but that's not going to happen. His house is chaos, everything upended and ransacked and his wide, Gudrun, is nowhere to be seen. The only information he has is a letter from a mysterious foe - confirming his worst nightmare. Gudrun has been taken, and she won't make it back unless Flosi hands over a ransom he can't even imagine finding. He has nowhere to turn - the kidnapper said bad things will happen if he dares to approach the authorities and he doesn't know who he can trust. Áróra specialises in finding missing things. But she's still grappling with the sudden and unexplainable disappearance of her own sister, the one mystery that she's yet to solve. Along with her friend and detective, Daniel, they can't say no when Flosi finds them and asks for help to rescue his wife. Now Áróra and co will have to chase down their ghosts before they disappear into the night forev...