Category: fiction
The Mourning Necklace by Kate Foster
Inspired by an infamous real-life case, The Mourning Necklace is an unforgettable historical novel from the Women’s Prize-longlisted author of The Maiden, Kate Foster. They said I would swing for the crime and I did. I wear the rope-bruise like a necklace. 1724. In a tavern just outside Edinburgh, Maggie Dickson’s family drown their sorrows, mourning her death yet relieved she is gone. Shame haunts them. Hanged … Read More The Mourning Necklace by Kate Foster
Crime in the Gym by Catherine Moloney
Bromgrove folk are dying to join Fitness for All. A friendly little gym where everyone’s welcome. And everyone’s a suspect. Paralympian Jack Donahue has always been the gym’s devastatingly handsome poster boy. Until now. Jack is found dead in the weights room. Bludgeoned with the same dumbbell that helped sculpt his world-class biceps! Detective Gil Markham is called to investigate, with his loyal — and gloriously tactless — sidekick … Read More Crime in the Gym by Catherine Moloney
+ female friendship, fiction, friendship, grief, loss, love, review
The Cartography of What Remains by Eva Schep (The Going Back Series Book #1)
She can go back. Not in memory. In fact. Since Tomas died, Lena has made her life small enough to survive. The chipped cup on the left side of the sink. The bread folded twice. The keys in the bowl by the door. And one impossible thing her grief allows. She can step into the kitchen they shared and stand in the fixed afternoon … Read More The Cartography of What Remains by Eva Schep (The Going Back Series Book #1)
Buyer Beware by Catherine Ryan Howard
If these walls could talk, they’d scream… When Ellie moves into 1 Delaney Row, all she has to her name is the house, a small suitcase and the terrible secrets she’s desperate to keep. But what she doesn’t know is that her new home is already hiding someone else’s secrets – and the people determined to keep them are watching her. #BuyerBeware X/Twitter @cathryanhoward #RandomThingsTours @annecater @RandomTTours … Read More Buyer Beware by Catherine Ryan Howard
The Repentants by Kate Foster
Her scandal. His revenge. The unforgettable new historical novel from award-winning author, Kate Foster. St Monans, Fife, Scotland 1790. Two women are forced to publicly repent in church, one for adultery the other for breaching the sabbath. Wealthy housewife, Florrie, and salt serf, Eliza, form a quick and unusual bond over their mutual humiliation. So when Florrie’s husband decides she must accompany him on a … Read More The Repentants by Kate Foster
The Kill Switch by Robert Peston
Journalist Gil Peck is back; in therapy, married to Jess – now editor of the Financial Chronicle – and still driven by the need to prove a point that he can’t quite identify. Yet all is not well at home. Jess is fed up with Gil’s obsession with his job, and she’s kicked him out of their home. But Gil has never let anything … Read More The Kill Switch by Robert Peston
+ audio book, fiction, humour fiction, Ireland, review, sisters, twins
Shibby Magee by Carrie Kabak
A vanished mother. A fractured family. A lifetime of choosing the wrong men. When their bold, brassy mother vanishes into Ireland’s Traveller community, Shibby Magee and her twin sister, Dorah, are left behind in a family already cracking at the seams. Under the iron rule of their rigidly bigoted grandmother, the girls grow up on opposite tracks: Dorah, sharp-edged and defiant; Shibby, bruised and … Read More Shibby Magee by Carrie Kabak
Until the Next Letter by Hannah Claire
When sisters Libby and Rachel open a letter from their late mother, they discover that it’s the first of five. Each letter asks them to scatter their mother’s ashes in a different place, and travel together to the carefully chosen locations. What begins as an act of remembrance soon becomes a journey into the past. With every trip, the sisters uncover unsettling truths about … Read More Until the Next Letter by Hannah Claire
My 4 Favourite Audiobooks of 2026 – Part Two
2026 is turning out to be a good year for audiobooks, so once again I am giving them their own post. We have one Jess Kidd (always, and always as an audiobook as the narration is one of my favourite parts), a modern Gothic mystery and two Will Carvers (who also made it to my Top Ten favourite books of 2026 Part Two). Here … Read More My 4 Favourite Audiobooks of 2026 – Part Two
+ adventure, childhood, crime fiction, domestic abuse, fiction, lies, marriage, murder, review, secrets, thriller
How To Survive in the Woods by Kat Rosenfield
Wild meets The Wife Between Us in this page-turning thriller, set in the treacherous final stretch of the Appalachian Trail – an addictive tale of passion, betrayal, control and what it means to survive. Emma Sharp knows the rules of survival. From being raised by a doomsday-fearing father and hardened by the startup world, she has learned how to endure – especially in her … Read More How To Survive in the Woods by Kat Rosenfield
Pimlico People by Rupert Stanbury
The Goddesses Artemis and Hebe are staying in Central London to obtain a better understanding of the lives of ‘normal’ people. To their surprise, they soon encounter a plot to blow up a foreign embassy. Add to that a sophisticated operation involving the theft of valuable paintings from a major art gallery, and the two goddesses begin to question what a ‘normal’ life is … Read More Pimlico People by Rupert Stanbury
+ 1960s, family, feminism, fiction, literature, love, marriage, music, psychiatrist, relationships, review, sisters, therapy, twins
The Crooked Little Pieces: Volume 6 by Sophia Lambton
Life can be alienating. Adaptation tampers with the twins in this penultimate instalment of The Crooked Little Pieces: an edition that seals both into unnatural habitats. Domesticity daunts Anneliese as she enjoys (endures?) a liberating love. Across an ocean unfamiliar faces shun the shrinking soul of Isabel. Belligerently climbing up the academic ladder, Susanna hangs up her psychiatrist spurs to be reached… never. Homelessness becomes … Read More The Crooked Little Pieces: Volume 6 by Sophia Lambton
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