DI Clare Mackay is back! In Plain Sight is as rigorously crafted as her first St Andrews police investigation. Thorough, tense and totally authentic, author Marion Todd has triumphed again. 'The magnitude of the task facing her was not lost on Clare. A...

When Lucy Foley sends out The Guest List you'll want to be on it. But make sure you're near the generator when the lights go out. Calculated, compulsive and churning with intensity.   "Historically, the [cormorant] has been represented as a symbol of...

Nonfiction author and blogger Clare Pooley has created her first fiction debut - and it's filled with all the truth, hope and joy we could ever need.   'Everyone lies about their lives. What would happen if you shared the truth instead?' Almost...

Asha & The Spirit Bird is a culture-rich delight. Inspired by her own childhood memories, award-winning author Jasbinder Bilan is proof that you should write what makes your heart sing.   'Family is the most important thing in the whole world.' For young...

An original concept in police procedurals, See Them Run is suspense loaded from start to finish - and author Marion Todd couldn't have delighted us more. 'Even before she answered the call, she knew it had happened again. There could be no doubt now. She...

The Handbook for Highly Sensitive People by Mel Collins is an important book for navigating today's environmental and emotional pressures - whether you live with High Sensitivity or not! We review it here ahead of our live Q&A with author Mel, Thursday 28...

First in the supernatural thriller series about detective Annie Graham, Helen Phifer has produced a harrowing, haunting and horrifying piece of entertainment. Step over The Ghost House threshold and enjoy the perfect Halloween Week nightcap.   "Alice, I'm...

Ride the slopes with Whiteout, a gruesome debut by Gabriel Dylan. YA horror that will chill you to the bone. "Something happened here. Something that changed my life." I’ll be honest… I’ve never read horror. Never been drawn to it. I have a memory that...

The debut 'Ghouls of Howlfair' by Nick Tomlinson is the first in the Howlfair series and what an opener! Demons, spectral shadows, warnings written in what looks like blood and a young investigator called Molly who loves BOOKS? Molly Thompson, welcome to...

The Witches by Roald Dahl presents a dark take on the world of witchcraft and produces one of the most ghastly villains in children's middle grade literature - The Grand High Witch. 'Vee have ignition!' We loved Roald Dahl at school and what better way to...

Tense and turbulent, this latest thriller by bestselling CL Taylor will have you too scared to close your eyes. ‘I need to wake up. I need to get up and run.’ When Anna Willis wakes from sleep in a hospital bed she learns that two of her colleagues died...

The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy brings us full circle in pondering the political and personal walls we construct, and invites us to separate our perceived truth from reality. After her memoir The Cost of Living, fans of Deborah Levy may have...