Ruth dares to dream of another life – far away from the horrors within the walls of Bethnal Green’s infamous orphanage. Luckily she has her friends, Amy and Ellen – but she can’t keep them safe, and the suffering is only getting worse. Surely there must be a way out? Continue reading Book Review: The Orphanage Girls
Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city into ethnic enclaves; each morning, the residents – whether Muslim, Croat or Serb – push the makeshift barriers aside. Continue reading Book Review: Black Butterflies
Synopsis In the City of London, the scent of money and power lingers in the corridors of the shiny office buildings and clings to the suits of the men who work in them. Chasing that scent is the only thing that matters. But not to Katy Daly. She has spent her life working in the City, but wealth and power are things granted to other … Continue reading Book Review: The Manager
Godfrey Bowyer, the best but least likeable bow maker in Worcester, dies of poisoning, though his wife Blanche survives. Continue reading Book Review: A Taste for Killing
Alison Ripley Cubitt couldn’t wait to make her mark. Thrilled to score an unpaid television internship in London, she still needed to survive alone… Continue reading Book Review: Misadventures in the Screen Trade
My son has been taken. And I’ve been given a choice. Kill a patient… Or never see him again. Continue reading Book Review: Do No Harm
Taking as his starting point many of the famous tourist sites in the Peloponnese, where the stories are set, John Spurling freshly imagines key narratives from the Greek canon. Continue reading Book Review: Arcadian Nights
Some people will stop at nothing to get what they want, regardless of what may come. But the past is always waiting… For what they seek, is seeking them. Continue reading Book Review: Amber
You are not who you think you are. Your future is not what you think it will be.
You are in danger… Continue reading Book Review: The Secret of Karabakh
Maria, Georgy and Harriet navigate their first throes of passion, scandal, and love in the heady pre-war atmosphere of Brussels in 1815. Continue reading Book Review: The Belles of Waterloo
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