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March 9, 2019

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Peaky Blinders Tie-In Book Coming

By Kath | New Releases | No Comments

Later this year comes the fifth series of The Peaky Blinders to the BBC, the much loved show based on gang activity in the early 20th Century. Earlier in the run we brought you a blog featuring books that you’d love if you love the Peaky Blinders, including some non-fiction reading about the time the show is based around and now comes the news that the first tie-in book for the series is coming in the Autumn.
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March 6, 2019

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Handmaid’s Tale Graphic Novel Coming Very Soon

By Kath | New Releases | No Comments

Later this month a graphic novel adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s classic novel The Handmaid’s Tale will be released. Canadian artist Renee Nault has been working on this visual representation of the classic for the last four years and the book will be released in hardback on 26th March with pre-orders available on the link at the bottom of this piece.

The new book is released “With the aim of making this edition a standalone work of art, she has brought Atwood’s terrifying modern classic to vivid life as never before,” said the publisher Jonathan Cape for the UK release, while Doubleday will publish the US version of the graphic novel.

February 28, 2019

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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

By Catherine Muxworthy | Literature, New Releases, News | No Comments

Social historian, Hallie Rubenhold’s The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper is the first book to shine a light on the lives on the five women; Mary Ann ‘Polly’ Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly who were murdered by Jack the Ripper.

February 23, 2019

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Two Tie-In Books Coming for Good Omens Adaptation

By Kath | Adaptations, New Releases | No Comments

You can’t have failed to hear the news that Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, has been adaptation by the BBC and Amazon Studios. Neil Gaiman is heavily tied in with the production so we have high hopes for the adaptation, and today we’ve heard the news that there are two tie-in books coming to accompany the new series.

Good Omens will air on Amazon Prime Video on 31st May 2019, announced just last week along with the opening credits and some news from the adaptation, and now fans will be able to get their hands on two companion books in time for release.

February 20, 2019

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Little Miss Inventor Joins the Mr Men/Little Miss Collection

By Catherine Muxworthy | Children's Literature, New Releases | No Comments

The Mr. Men books, illustrated and written by Roger Hargreaves have been a hit with children since 1971 when they were first published and the collection was later increased to include female characters in 1981 with an accompanying series, Little Miss. Now, the Little Miss collection is about to be joined by a new character, Little Miss Inventor.
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February 11, 2019

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On the Come Up Playlist

By Catherine Muxworthy | New Releases | No Comments

Angie Thomas’ On the Come up was released this month and is her second novel, following the success of The Hate U Give. On the Come Up returns to Garden Heights and follows the story of 16-year-old music lover, Bri who wants to became a great rapper. But, as the daughter of an underground rap legend who died before he made it big, she’s got big shoes to fill if she’s going to make it in the music world.

February 10, 2019

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First Stranger Things Novel Hits the Shelves

By Kath | New Releases | No Comments

This week the first Stranger Things novel hit the shelves. Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds was released on 5th February and follows the nonfiction books about the series that were released last year.

Author Gwenda Bond is already recognised as a successful YA and children’s author and is known for her Lois Lane series, and the Cirque American series.

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February 7, 2019

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New Book Reveals Stieg Larsson’s Investigations of Swedish PM’s Assassination

By Thom Peart | New Releases | No Comments

Stieg Larsson is best known for writing the critically acclaimed Millennium series, which shot to fame with the publication of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in 2005. Stieg had just finished working on the second two instalments before he died unexpectedly and the two novels were published to equal acclaim. Before he became a novelist, Larsson spent much of his life as a journalist and, it has now been revealed, was investigating the 1986 assassination of the Swedish prime minister Olof Palme.

February 3, 2019

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Stephen King Announces a New Novel ‘The Institute’, Read an Excerpt Here

By Kath | New Releases, Reading Excerpts | No Comments

This week Stephen King announced on his website that he has a new novel coming this year. The Institute will be released on September 10th and is already available for pre-order.

Fans of the author really do have it great as King seems to release a novel every year. Here’s the blurb for The Institute: Read More

February 3, 2019

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Margaret Atwood Reveals Haunting Cover for The Testaments

By Kath | New Releases | No Comments

When the news that Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale was getting a sequel dropped before Christmas, fans took a collective gasp! The 1985 novel ends on a bit of a cliff hanger and until the television series we’ve all been wondering what happens next.

The Testaments is set 15 years after Offred’s final scenes and so doesn’t interfere with the television series at all. Back in November when the novel was announced via the author’s Twitter page, there was no cover but now the front cover has been revealed and it’s as haunting as we imagined it would be!