Maeve Binchy’s final book to be released on 24th April.Chestnut Street is a collection of linked stories (which have been complied by her husband from a store of unpublished stories,) and is due for release in hardback by Orion on 24th April (it is available for pre-order.) It’s the final book from the wonderful Maeve Binchy who passed away in 2012.
About the book:
Just round the corner from St Jarlath’s Crescent is Chestnut Street. Here, the lives of the residents are revealed in Maeve Binchy’s wonderfully compelling tales:
Bucket Maguire, the window cleaner, who must do more than he bargained for to protect his son. Continue reading
Lisa is the author of Ralph’s Party, Before I Met You and The House We Grew Up In. Her new book will be called The Third Wife and is due for release from Century on 3rd July. It’s available to pre-order now. We massively adore Lisa’s books. We’re looking forward to reading the new novel.
About the book:
London 2011: In the early hours of a summer morning, a young woman is killed by a bus. A tragic accident? Or suicide? A year later, her devastated husband, Adrian Wolfe, is determined to find out. Adrian and Maya had only recently married, and he’d always believed they were happy together. His children from his two previous marriages loved her. Continue reading
Emily is the author of Something Borrowed, Something Blue and Where We Belong. Her new novel is due for release by Ballantine Books on 20th May. You can get a sneak peek of chapter one on Emily’s website.
About the book:
Thirty-three-year-old Shea Rigsby has spent her entire life in Walker, Texas—a small college town that lives and dies by football, a passion she unabashedly shares. Raised alongside her best friend, Lucy, the daughter of Walker’s legendary head coach, Clive Carr, Shea was too devoted to her hometown team to leave. Instead she stayed in Walker for college, even taking a job in the university athletic department after graduation, where she has remained for more than a decade.
The new novel from author and actress, Clemency Burton-Hill is being released by Headline on 10th April 2014. It’s called All The Things You Are. We think it has a lovely cover and we’re looking forward to reading.
A little about the book:
When New York journalist Natasha Bernstein loses her job and discovers her fiancé has been keeping a dark secret, her world collapses. Turning to her family, she takes inspiration from her formidable grandmother Esther, who runs a community centre in downtown Manhattan. As she starts to rebuild her life, Natasha’s friendship with Rafi – the enigmatic architect working on Esther’s centre – restores her sense of wonder at the world and her faith in who she is. But when Rafi and Natasha take a trip to Jerusalem, they are plunged into a story far deeper than their own. Continue reading
Today is publication day for To Catch a Creeper, the follow-up novel to Looking for La La.
The blurb for To Catch a Creeper:
Cathy is riding high in her brand-new job at a (surprisingly bitchy) top London advertising agency working with best friend Rosa. But when Rosa’s pregnancy goes amiss and enemies sabotage her new career, she finds herself leading a chaotic double life of lies and deception, hiding a shameful secret from all, especially husband Declan who appears in the throes of a nervous breakdown. Meanwhile she’s agreed to unmask the notorious Crouch End Creeper, a burglar terrorizing their neighbourhood. Little does she know that her meddling, assisted by fellow mothers (the Wednesday Once Weeklies) and the Neighbourhood Watch, will lead their dangerous opponent to murder. And that it’s not only the tall elegant transvestite who is placing herself at risk…
To celebrate publication day, Continue reading