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Genre: Romance | Romantic Comedy Release Date: Expected 27th April 2023 Publisher: Penguin UK | Viking Harriet and Wyn are the perfect couple - aside from the fact they aren't actually together anymore. Ever since college, they've been the power couple everyone has aspired to be; sweet, supportive, successful.  But as Harriets yearly trip with her best friends draws closer, they still haven't talked about the real reason they broke up, or even told anyone. They're not ready to break their friends hearts, or their own, so when Wyn is unexpectedly invited to their trip, they give themselves this last week of sunshine and sea before their lives change for good.  They just need to make it through a few more days and they can stop pretending - but they've both been pretending for a lot longer than they'd like to admit, and now it's time to get real. "I know this place, even if I can't name it. I know that I'm safe, that I belong." Witty, wise an...

The Soulmate - Sally Hepworth  ⭐⭐⭐ Genre: Thriller | Released: 06/04/2023 The Acapulco - Simone Buchholz  ⭐⭐⭐ Genre: Crime | Released: 17/10/2023 Happy Place - Emily Henry  ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Genre: Romance | Released: 27/04/2023 This Family - Kate Sawyer  ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Genre: Fiction | Released: 11/05/2023 Double Booked - Lily Lindon  ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Genre: Fiction | Released: 09/06/2022 Will You Read This, Please?  ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Genre: Non-Fiction | Released: 11/05/2023 The Book Lovers Retreat - Heidi Swain  ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Genre; Fiction | Released: 13/04/2023 Death of a Bookseller - Alice Slater  ⭐⭐⭐⭐ ⭐ Genre: Thriller | Released:  27/04/2023 Seven Exes - Lucy Vine ⭐⭐⭐⭐ ⭐ Genre: Romcom | Released: 04/05/2023 Oh Sister - Jodie Chapman  ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Genre: Fiction | Released: 13/03/2023 Total March Reads: 10

Genre: Fiction | Romance Released Date: Expected 13th April 2023 Publisher: Simon & Schuster  Sometimes a book grabs you by the heart and grows to mean everything to you. That’s what  Hope Falls  is to friends Emily, Rachel and Tori. So, when they get the chance to spend a whole summer at the cottage in Lakeside where the film adaptation was located, they know it is going to be the holiday of a lifetime. Spending six weeks away will give them a chance to re-evaluate their life choices. For Emily to decide which way her career will go – the safe route, or the more risky creative option? And for Rachel to decide whether to move in with her partner Jeremy. Then Tori has to drop out at the last moment, and her space is offered to another  Hope Falls  afficionado, Alex.  But when Alex turns out not to be who they expected, the holiday takes an unforeseen turn. And as the summer develops, so does their friendship. Could this be where they uncover their future...

Genre: Adult Fiction | Satire & Humour Release Date: Expected 30th March 2023 Publisher: Welbeck Publishing UK Have you ever spent so long waiting for your life to start, only to realise it's been going on under your nose the entire time? And now, when you look around at it, you wonder if this is really it for you? Is this as good as it's gonna get? For four best friends, these are questions they've been asking themselves a lot lately. So join us as we navigate a year of their complicated, messy lives and try to figure out love, parenthood, relationships, careers and everything else that comes with being an adult. And if they can't figure it out, there's always wine.  "Where did it all go? The youth? the joy? The firm skin? The fresh face? The spring in my step? The mirth in my laugh? The hours in my sleep? Why does everything now seem so flat and difficult? I know we're supposed to be a long time dead, but I had no idea you could feel just that, while ...

  It’s our world, but decades into the future … an ordinary world, where cars drive themselves, drones glide across the sky, and robots work in burger shops. There are two superpowers and a digital Cold War, but all conflicts are safely oceans away. People get up, work, and have dinner. Everything is as it should be…  Except for seventeen-year-old John, a tech prodigy from a damaged family, who hides a deeply personal secret. But everything starts to change for him when he enters a tiny café on a cold Tokyo night. A café run by a disgraced sumo wrestler, where a peculiar dog with a spherical head lives, alongside its owner, enigmatic waitress Neotnia …   But Neotnia hides a secret of her own – a secret that will turn John’s unhappy life upside down. A secret that will take them from the neon streets of Tokyo to Hiroshima’s tragic past to the snowy mountains of Nagano.  A secret that reveals that this world is anything ordinary – and it’s about to change forever… "If ...

Genre: Mystery | Thriller | Young Adult Fiction Release Date: Expected 11th April 2023 Publisher: Bonnier Books | Hot Key Who will you be at Lyrecroft Phelps? At this school, only the elite are welcome. The students that walk these hallowed halls are propelled into success and acclaim, but behind the perfect exterior is a dark side full of secrets and skeletons. Charlotte is the perfect student with the perfect boyfriend and social standing, while Max struggles to balance his scholarship with the social demands of the school and the other students. And there's Quinn, who has to watch quietly as the boy who abused her walks around with an untarnished reputation and bright future.  He needs to pay, to suffer - he needs to die for the pain he's caused her. People need to know.  Until now, the rule at the school was that boys will be boys - but now, boys are going to be held accountable for their actions. And our unlikely trio are going to be the ones to make sure that happens, no...

  Genre: Fiction | Crime | Domestic Drama  Release Date: Expected 13th April 2023 Publisher: Penguin Random House | Michael Joseph Jen almost died. And now the community that should be comforting her is condemning her for surviving, for trying to claim her body as her own.  Isobel has spent her life learning to be a daughter, a wife, a mother but never learning to be herself because it didn't matter. Now without a husband, who could she possibly hope to be?  Zelda lives a life full of sin, according to some. She's haunted by her past, especially when an unwelcome ghost from the past suddenly appears at her front door.  These three women may all be linked through the same religious community, but soon they will discover they all share something else much more important - a sisterhood. But can that be enough to ever let them really be free?   You change every single day, but you don't see it. Little by little. Until one day, you're completely transformed...

Genre: Thriller | Mystery  Release Date: Expected 6th April Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Pippa and Gabe have the perfect life. The fairy tale marriage, successful careers,  two beautiful daughters, a stunning home on a peaceful cliff that overlooks the waves like a majestic castle - but their love story has been marred by death and desperation as the cliffside they call home keeps turning into the final resting place of lost souls taking their own life. Gabe, her prince in shining armour, has saved seven of those lost souls, talking them away from the ledge and offering them an ear, a shoulder and a hand to guide them back down. Until Amanda. He doesn't save her. Pippa has no reason to doubt him when he says Amanda jumped, that he couldn't save her. But everything seems wrong - and something about the way he's acting makes her look closer, looking for hidden chapters in their story that she's not sure she wants to read. Because once she does, once she knows what re...

Genre: Fiction | Domestic Drama Release Date: Expected 11th May 2023 Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Mary is getting remarried, in the house where she raised her children and stepchildren, where she watched her family grow up and then ultimately grow apart. This family has been broken for some time, but today they will all be together for the first in time in years. Marys daughters, Phoebe, Rosie and Emma together in their childhood home despite the emotional and physical distance that has been pushing them further apart. And on this sunny afternoon, the house will tell a story about this family. About the family they used to be, the one that is, and hopefully the one there still might be.  "There could be great things coming for you just around the corner, or there could not. It could all be about to get worse. Life is jumbled up, out of order, random. The loose threads don't just get tied up in a bow." Unless you're very lucky, we've all been in those moments ...

  Genre: LGBTQ+ | Fiction | Romance  Release Date: Expected 13th April 2023 Publisher: HQ Arthur and his wife have an announcement to make - they're separated. Not because they don't love each other, but because Arthur finally feels ready to tell his family, and his small-minded town that he's a gay man. And now, in his 70's, he wants the chance to finally live as himself.  His family is shocked - especially his 21 year old Grandson Teddy who has just started to accept his own sexuality, especially when it comes to his beautiful but problematic co-worker, Ben. Teddy isn't ready, how could he be when it took his Grandad decades to say it out loud? He isn't ready to deal with his overbearing Mother and worry about what everyone will think, especially after how they treated Arthur. But for now, he knows there's one man he can turn to as tries to navigate this new chapter of this life - they can do it together.  Just remember that every day you aren't being ...

Genre: Literary Fiction | Horror | Thriller Release Date: Expected 30th March 2023 Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group  Rachel is happy living her life in peaceful solitude, away from the noise and chaos of humanity. She spends her days creating art deep in nature, with just the occasional call to her sister and a driver to collect her crafts.  Until the unfamiliar sound of pounding on the door changes everything. Hannah and her baby have fled the city, running away from the mysterious waves of death that are sweeping through the world, washing away people and leaving nothing behind. She's been running from it - from the feeling that something is watching her, waiting to take her too. Rachel always thought her isolation was her salvation, her fear making her stay away from everyone and everything - but now, she'll have to fight to make sure she isn't alone for the rest of her days ... however many there may be. "It was a simple choice, on the face of it. To stay where ...

  Haggis. Whiskey. Kilts. Drag Queens.  The Loch Ness Legend brings us this brilliant book that is part memoir, part drag advice, part self-help and all Chaney. Riotously funny, ridiculously sarcastic and roaringly fun - Chaney is charming and hilarious as always and their huge personality shines through the pages.  Packed with full-on sweary Scottishness (complete with a fabulous glossary for those who are unfamiliar) - Chaney has given us something that feels like one of those wonderful endless late night chats with a friend rather than a novel, talking right to us and reminiscing about all the moments, big and small, that led to them snatching crowns and hearts all over the world. And between all these trips down memory lane, Chaney offers some brilliant tips not just for drag but honestly for everyday life too.  Talking about Chaney's formative years growing up in Scotland, to the exploration of their identity, the highs and lows, and their meteoric rise to stard...

Genre: Queer Fiction | Adult Fiction | Romance Release Date: 9th June 2023 Publisher: Aria Georgina is a sensible 26-year-old with a routine: 1) schedule dates with long-term boyfriend, 2) teach piano to inept children, and 3) repeat until dead. Perfect. But when one night she deviates from her usual timetable and sees the indie lesbian pop band Phase, Georgina realises: 1) she longs to play her own music again, 2) she wants to be just like them, and 3) their drummer is really hot... Scared of losing her happy straight life, but feeling a new sense of belonging in the gay scene, she does what any rational person would do: she splits herself in two. She'll be Gina by day, George by night. It's going to take painstaking scheduling, a versatile wardrobe, and an ambiguous haircut, but maybe Georgina really can have both? "Meanwhile, I'm the stereotype of an indecisive bisexual, not even sure I'm allowed to call myself that." Witty, warm and wickedly funny; Double ...

  Lennox is a troubled teenager with no family. Ava is eight months pregnant and fleeting her abusive husband. Heather is a grieving mother and cancer sufferer. They don't know each other, but when a meteor streaks over Edinburgh, all three suffer instant, catastrophic strokes ... ... only to wake up the following day in hospital, miraculously recovered. When the news reaches them of an octopus-like creature washed up on the shore near where the meteor came to earth, Lennox senses that some extra-terrestrial forces are at play. With the help of Ava, Heather and a journalist, Ewan, he rescues the creature they call "Sandy" and goes on the run. But they aren't the only ones with an interest in the alien …   close behind are Ava's husband, the police and a government unit who wants to capture the creature at all costs. And Sandy's arrival may have implications beyond anything they could imagine. "It finally made sense, the idea that Sandy was plural. We all ...