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Stranded by Stuart James – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A family trapped. A psychopath on the loose. Let the game begin… What could be more innocent than going on holiday? As a family drive along a quiet country lane on their way to the airport, they meet a stranger standing alone in the middle of the road. Steering them along another path,…
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The Peacock Room by Anna Sayburn Lane – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A literary obsession. An angry young man with a gun. And one woman trying to foil his deadly plan. When Helen Oddfellow starts work as a lecturer in English literature, she’s hoping for a quiet life. But trouble knows where to find her. There’s something wrong with her new students. Their unhappiness seems…
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Betrayal by Lilja Sigurdardóttir – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Burned out and traumatised by her horrifying experiences around the world, aid worker Úrsula has returned to Iceland. Unable to settle, she accepts a high-profile government role in which she hopes to make a difference again. But on her first day in the post, Úrsula promises to help a mother seeking justice for…
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Forgotten Toys by Ashley Laino – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB When you look in an empty pool, you don’t usually expect to see a body at the bottom but in a a small town in eastern Pennsylvania called Pikesville one summer, that is exactly what happens. Pikesville is a quaint community that is faced with the disappearance of a local teenager Jenna Hayes…
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The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB In 1893, there’s no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box. But when the three…
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Pan’s Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of The Faun by Guillermo del Toro and Cornelia Funke – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A thrillingly dark novel that shows the rare magic that can happen when two dazzlingly original imaginations come together to make a book. Bestselling author Cornelia Funke has written a novel inspired by Guillermo del Toro’s captivating 2006 film. Beautiful, haunting, visceral, gutsy, it’s a vastly inventive, grown-up modern fairytale, pulsing with power…
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Strangers by C.L. Taylor – Audiobook Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Ursula thinks she killed the love of her life. Gareth’s been receiving strange postcards. And Alice is being stalked. None of them are used to relying on others – but when the three strangers’ lives unexpectedly collide, there’s only one thing for it: they have to stick together. Otherwise, one of them will…
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The End Of The Line by Gray Williams – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A fast-paced thriller set on the streets of a London rife with undercover magic. Abras, as they are known, can harness these illegal powers, but for con-artist Amanda Coleman – whose father was a powerful and abusive practitioner – magic is anathema. When her criminal crew decide to hire an Abra to help…
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Fatal Flowers by Miranda Rijks – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Can psychologist Pippa Durrant unmask a killer before she becomes the next victim? After a seemingly senseless murder at a garden center, the police turn to human lie detector, Pippa Durrant for help. Working alongside handsome detective Joe Swain, Pippa starts digging for the truth. But the Gower family, owners of the garden…
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Their Little Secret by Mark Billingham – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB She says she’s an ordinary mother. He knows a liar when he sees one. Sarah thinks of herself as a normal single mum. It’s what she wants others to think of her. But the truth is, she needs something new, something thrilling. Meanwhile, DI Tom Thorne is investigating a woman’s suicide, convinced she…
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The Farm by Joanne Ramos – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB THE MUST-READ DEBUT NOVEL OF 2019. Sharp, compulsive and darkly funny, this is an unforgettable novel about a world within touching distance of our own. Ambitious businesswoman Mae Yu runs Golden Oaks – a luxury retreat transforming the fertility economy – where women get the very best of everything, so long as they…
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No One Home by Tim Weaver – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF YOU WERE GONE ‘THE TENTH IN THE TERRIFIC DAVID RAKER SERIES – BLISS!’ LEE CHILD One night, the residents of Black Gale gather for a dinner party. As the only nine people living there, they’ve become close friends as well as neighbours. They eat, drink…
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*SPOTLIGHT* on Silence In The Shadows by Darcy Coates
ABOUT SILENCE IN THE SHADOWS The world continues to change. Each passing day twists it further and pushes the surviving humans closer to the brink of extinction. But, for the first time, there is hope. Clare and Dorran set their sights back on Winterbourne Hall. It’s a daunting journey, but vital. Humanity needs more refuges—safe…
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The House Of A Hundred Whispers by Graham Masterton – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB On a windswept moor, an old house guards its secrets… The new standalone horror novel from ‘a true master of horror.’ All Hallows Hall is a rambling Tudor mansion on the edge of the bleak and misty Dartmoor. It is not a place many would choose to live. Yet the former Governer of…
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No Love Lost by Robert Crouch – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB How can a simple job interview end in complete carnage? When Mandy Paige seeks Kent Fisher’s help to find the mother who abandoned her as a baby, he has no idea of the mayhem his investigation will unleash. With only a photograph of a woman he once knew, he discovers she left her…
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Plague by Julie Anderson – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB There are many ways to die. Plague is just one of them. Work on a London tube line is halted by the discovery of an ancient plague pit and, within it, a very recent corpse. A day later another body is found, killed in the same way, also in a plague pit. This…
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*EXTRACT* from Whispers In The Mist by Darcy Coates
Hello and welcome to The Bookwormery. Today I am sharing an extract from Whispers in the Mist by Darcy Coates…but first a little about the book…. PUBLISHERS BLURB Clare and Dorran may still be alive against all odds, but relief is only temporary. Dorran is sick, and rapidly worsening. Clare fears the only way to…
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This Green And Pleasant Land by Ayisha Malik – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB For years Bilal Hasham and his wife Mariam have lived contented, quiet lives in the sleepy rural village of Babbel’s End. Now all that is about to change. On her deathbed, Bilal’s mother reaches for his hand. Instead of whispering her final prayers, she gives him a task: build a mosque in his…
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People Of Abandoned Character by Clare Whitfield – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB What would you do if you thought you had married a murderer? He is my husband. To honour and obey. Until murder do us part. London, 1888: Tormented by the death of her secret lover, Nurse Susannah Chapman rushes into marriage to a doctor. While attracted to her adoring, younger husband, she is…
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Sword In The Storm by David Gemmell – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Born in the storm that doomed his father, Connavar grows to manhood among the mist-covered mountains of Caer Druagh, where the Rigante tribe dwell in harmony with the land and its gods. But beyond the border, across the water, an evil force is gathering strength, an unstoppable force that will change the world…
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