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The Peepshow
the Murders at Rillington Place
2024 || Paperback || Kate Summerscale || Bloomsbury
In March 1953, London police discovered the bodies of three young women hidden in a wall at 10 Rillington Place, a dingy terrace house in Notting Hill. On searching the building, they found another body beneath the floorboards, then an array of human bones in the garden. They launched a nationwide manhunt for the tenant of the ground-floor flat, a softly spoken former policeman called Reg Christie.
The story was an instant sensation. The star reporter Harry Procter chased after the s...
The Days I Loved You Most
2024 || Paperback || Amy Neff || Bloomsbury
This book will break your heart and help you piece it back together again; it is the next great love story for the ages.
Joseph and Evelyn's New England beach homes have been side by side for generations. And in the summer of 1941, on the shores where they were raised, these two childhood friends fell in love.
Now, more than sixty years later, with a lifetime between them, Joseph and Evelyn gather their three grown children to share the staggering news: She has received a t...
The Grief Doctor
2024 || Paperback || Jack Anderson || Bloomsbury
If you had the option to not feel grief at the death of someone you loved - to remember them but not feel pain at their loss - would you take it?
'A place free of judgement. for a life free of pain'
The Elizabeth Codelle Therapeutic Institute is the world's most exclusive clinic: eye-wateringly expensive and located on a small island off the Welsh coast, it is run by controversial genius Dr Codelle. She takes only one patient at a time, she keeps them away from the outside world while they're...
Empires of the Steppes (Heruitgave)
the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation
2024 || Paperback || Kenneth W. Harl || Bloomsbury
Rare Singles
2024 || Paperback || Benjamin Myers || Bloomsbury
A warm, tender and funny story about unlikely friendships, second chances, and the magic of soul music - perfect for fans of Nick Hornby, David Nicholls and Jonathan Coe
Dinah has always lived in Scarborough. Trapped with her feckless husband and useless son, her one release comes at her town's Northern Soul nights, where she gets to put on her best and lose herself in the classics.
Dinah has an especial hero: Bucky Bronco, who recorded a string of soul gems in the late Six...
The Instrumentalist
2024 || Paperback || Harriet Constable || Bloomsbury
A dazzling historical debut set in eighteenth-century Venice, about the woman written out of the story of one of history's greatest musical masterpieces
'Enthralling, passionate, vivid. The Instrumentalist is a marvel' Kiran Millwood Hargrave
'I was swept away by this searing portrait of ambition and betrayal' Elizabeth Macneal
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Venice. 1704. In this city of glittering splendour, desperation and desti...
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Anita de Monte Laughs Last
2024 || Paperback || Xochitl Gonzalez || Bloomsbury
A NEW YORK TIMES, ELLE AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING HIGHLIGHT FOR 2024
'Rollicking, melodic, tender and true. And oh so very wise'
Robert Jones, Jr., author of The Prophets
Who gets to leave a legacy?
1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City; her tragic death is the talk of the town. Until it isn't. By 1998 Anita's name has been all but forgotten - certainly by the time Raquel, a third-year art history student is preparing her final thesis. On College Hill...
Be Mine (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Richard Ford || Bloomsbury
'Ford's Frank Bascombe series stands as one of the finest achievements of modern American fiction. A fittingly mordant and brilliant conclusion' INDEPENDENT
In the run up to Christmas, we meet Frank Bascombe in the twilight of his days. He is a man who has occupied many colourful lives - sportswriter, father, husband, ex-husband, friend, real estate agent - but now Frank finds himself in the most sorrowing role of all: caregiver to his son, Paul, diagnosed with ALS. On a shared winter's odyss...
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The Mime Order (Heruitgave)
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2024 || Paperback || Samantha Shannon || Bloomsbury
The second instalment in the international bestselling series, by the author of the The Priory of the Orange Tree
'A trailblazer for young talent' Independent
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A fugitive who will not be silenced
It is a dark time for clairvoyants. Scion is in league with the Rephaim, an extraordinarily powerful, otherworldly race that intends to make humans its slaves.
In an unprecedented feat of bravery, Paige Mahoney has succe...
Sleep Like Death
2024 || Paperback || Kalynn Bayron || Bloomsbury
New York Times bestselling author and TikTok sensation Kalynn Bayron returns to fairytales with a lush, thrilling and original YA Snow White retelling that brings a new and exciting voice to this familiar tale. Perfect for fans of Cinderella Is Dead.
Only the truly desperate - and foolish - seek out the Knight, an ancient monster who twists wishes into curses. Eve knows this first-hand: one of her mothers was cursed by the Knight and trapped in the body of a songbird. With the unique abilitie...