Blogs in November 2024

Scandalous Women 9th November 2024

1966: In London, Jackie Collins‘s racy The World is Full of Married Men hits bookshops and launches her career. In New York, Jacqueline Susann‘s debut novel Valley of the Dolls is published, and she’s desperate for it to be...

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In Memoriam 9th November 2024

In 1914, war feels far away to Henry Gaunt and Sidney Ellwood. They’re too young to enlist, and anyway, Gaunt is fighting his own private battle – an all-consuming infatuation with the dreamy, poetic Ellwood – not having a...

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The Bookseller 8th November 2024

THE SETTING When the body of a bookseller is discovered, collapsed in a pool of blood in his Bristolian bookshop, it is immediately clear that he has been murdered. What is unclear is how someone could have met such...

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Christmas at the Board Game Cafe 7th November 2024

The BRAND-NEW festive instalment of The Little Board Game Cafe series! Kate seems to have it all – wonderful friends, a successful career, and an idyllic life in the quirky Yorkshire town of Essendale. But under the surface, Kate...

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Poison Garden 7th November 2024

The DCI Ryan Mysteries Book 22 The clock is ticking… For Detective Chief Inspector Ryan, the stakes have never been higher. Most of the world thinks he’s dead, killed by an assasin’s rifle in his own home. But another...

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