‘Sir Joseph Venell considered his sin, and smiled.’ Unfortunately for Sir Joseph, his smile is swiftly replaced by a grimace of fear as he is brutally attacked by an invisible adversary and left for dead in his own field. What has happened to Sir Joseph? Why do the investigators believe Thomas Tallant, a spice merchant […]
What do our most notorious killers deserve? This is the question M. J. Arlidge explores in this fast paced, violent tale that imagines what might happen if a vigilante infiltrated the probation service and decided to supply the bereaved families with the knowledge required to take their revenge… What’s it about? Arlidge’s chunky tale focuses […]
When we think about preparing for old age, we tend to think about finances, not fitness. Former lawyer turned personal trainer Elizabeth Davies thinks we need to consider our bodies more: how we will want them to move, what level of mobility and flexibility we want to retain, and how we can prepare our bodies […]
Two men flee across a continent, wanted dead or alive. Their crime? They killed the King… History records that Puritans Edward Whalley and his son-in-law, William Goffe, fled to America to escape the Act of Oblivion, passed in 1660, pardoning all Civil War participants except the 59 who had signed the death warrant for King […]
‘His gut was telling him he had stumbled on a crime that had something to do with little girls.’ When local police visit an elderly peeping tom, the confiscated photographs of multiple young girls are sent by an intuitive PC Carey to an even more intuitive DI Custer, of the recently formed Paedophile Unit, to […]
Reproductive rights are frequently a source of controversy. In ‘Ava’, Victoria Dillon imagines a world in which, post Roe vs Wade, and in an increasingly authoritarian America, women’s ability to make choices about their own bodies are restricted to the point where one scientist decides the only way to freedom is to change the very […]
So your child has received an ADHD diagnosis. What now? Now, you learn how to help your child manage the way their brain works, and ADHD coach and therapist Sarah Templeton is here to help you. Diagnosed with ADHD herself in adulthood, Sarah is very familiar with the consequences of unmanaged ADHD wants you to […]
Recently I joined two new book groups, because, obviously, my TBR pile wasn’t ridiculous enough. I love a deadline and not, (to paraphrase Douglas Adams,) because I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by, but because a deadline means that I will actually, definitely, genuinely read the exciting sounding book that I’ve […]
If something has been covered up for eighty years, someone, somewhere, knows why… I was intrigued by the premise of this book and was happy to accept a copy to review, but I was surprised as the story began and didn’t seem to be about a day by the pool, but instead focused on a […]
A father and son enter a ghost house at a theme park. They never come out. This isn’t Private Investigator David Raker’s case – he is hired to uncover what happened to Fiona Murphy, a mother who walked out of her house on boxing day 40 years ago and was never seen again – but […]