Title: Clickbait Author: L. C. North Genre: Thriller Publisher: Bantam Publication Date: 11th April 2024 Rating: 4/5 Cover: Book Summary: ‘We’re not famous anymore. We’re notorious.’ For over a decade, the Lancasters were celebrity royalty, with millions tuning in every week to watch their reality show, Living with the Lancasters. But then an old video emerges of one of their legendary parties. Suddenly, they’re in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons: witnesses swore they’d seen missing teenager Bradley Wilcox leaving the Lancaster family home on the night of the party, but the vide ..read more

Title: Yellowface Author: Rebecca F. Kuang Genre: Thriller Publisher: The Borough Press Rating: 5/5 Cover: Book Summary: THIS IS ONE HELL OF A STORY.  IT’S JUST NOT HERS TO TELL. When failed writer June Hayward witnesses her rival Athena Liu die in a freak accident, she sees her opportunity… and takes it. So what if it means stealing Athena’s final manuscript? So what if it means ‘borrowing’ her identity? And so what if the first lie is only the beginning… Finally, June has the fame she always deserved. But someone is about to expose her…  What happens next is entirely eve ..read more

Title: The Shadow Key Author: Susan Stokes-Chapman Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Harvill Secker Publication Date: 18th April 2024 Rating: 5/5 Cover: Summary: There’s something mysterious about the village of Penhelyg. Will unlocking its truth bring light or darkness? Meirionydd, 1783. Dr Henry Talbot has been dismissed from his post in London. The only job he can find is in Wales where he can’t speak the language, belief in myth and magic is rife, and the villagers treat him with suspicion. When Henry discovers his predecessor died under mysterious circumstances, he is determined to f ..read more

Title: Nightwatching Author: Tracy Sierra Genre: Thriller Publisher: Viking Publication Date: 8th February 2024 Rating: 4.5/5 Cover: Summary: There was someone in the house. Home alone with her young children during a blizzard, a mother tucks her son back into bed in the middle of the night. Then she hears a noise – old houses are always making some kind of noise. But this sound is disturbingly familiar: it’s the tread of footsteps, unusually heavy and slow, coming up the stairs… In that split second, she has three choices. Should she hide? Should she run? Or should she fight? Review: I’ve ..read more

Title: The Women of Troy Author: Pat Barker Genre: Mythology, Literary Fiction Publisher: Penguin Rating: 4/5 Cover: Summary: Troy has fallen. The Greeks have won their bitter war. They can return home as victors – all they need is a good wind to lift their sails. But the wind has vanished, the seas becalmed by vengeful gods, and so the warriors remain in limbo – camped in the shadow of the city they destroyed, kept company by the women they stole from it. The women of Troy. Helen – poor Helen. All that beauty, all that grace – and she was just a mouldy old bone for feral dogs to fight over ..read more

Title: The Divorcées Author: Rowan Beaird Genre: Literary Fiction Publisher: Manilla Press Publication Date: 28th March 2024 Rating: 4/5 Cover: Summary: Lois Saunders thought that marrying the right man would finally cure her loneliness. But as picture-perfect as her husband is, she is suffocating in their loveless marriage. In 1951, though, unhappiness is hardly grounds for divorce – except in Reno, Nevada. At the Golden Yarrow, the most respectable of Reno’s ‘divorce ranches’ Lois finds herself living with half a dozen other would-be divorcees, all in Reno for the six weeks’ residency that ..read more

Title: Clara Reads Proust Author: Stéphane Carlier Translator: Polly Mackintosh Genre: Fiction Publisher: Gallic Books Rating: 4.5/5 Cover: Summary: A tender and witty coming-of-age story about the power of literature to inspire new beginnings, peppered with a cast of quirky characters and a unique heroine.  Clara is a hairdresser at Cindy Coiffure, a sleepy French salon with an identity crisis. Her relationship is fizzling out. Her tanoholic boss Madame Habib worships Jacques Chirac and talks longingly of her days in Paris. And now Madame Léeacute;vy-Leroyer wants to go blonde. Clara ca ..read more

Title: Hotel Arcadia Author: Sunny Singh Genre: Thriller Publisher: Magpie, Point Blank Crime Publication Date: 21st March 2024 Rating: 4/5 Cover: Summary: A high octane thriller, capturing the extraordinary capacity of humans to retain compassion in extreme circumstances Sam is a war photographer, famous for her hauntingly beautiful pictures of the dead. After a particularly gruelling assignment she checks into a luxury hotel, hoping to unwind with a few days of solitude. Abhi, the hotel manager, never wanted to be a hero; he just wants to avoid disappointing his father and brother any more ..read more

Title: The Saturday Place Author: Alice Peterson Genre: Fiction Publisher: Bedford Square Publishers Publication Date: 14th March 2024 Rating: 4/5 Cover: Summary: Three perfect strangers who help each other to believe in love again Holly’s husband died, and she’s lonely. She needs to do something to save herself, quickly. Next thing she knows she’s interviewing for a voluntary cooking job, surprised to be ambushed by a scruffy man who looks like he has a past. Angus has messed up. He’s lost the respect of his family and has none for himself. If it weren’t for his brother and friend ..read more

Title: Talking With Psychopaths Author: Christopher Berry-Dee Genre: True Crime Publication Date: 29th February 2024 Publisher: Bonnier Books Cover: Summary: Look around you, because the person sitting right next to you could be a cold, heartless murderer. . . In Talking With Psychopaths, bestselling author and criminologist Christopher Berry-Dee takes readers deep inside the dark minds of some of the most pitiless and dangerous people alive. Having spent years interviewing imprisoned criminals – including notorious serial killers – he discovered that the lack of remorse these people s ..read more