We are often asked to let you know about the books that are due to be released, what are the hot picks and what books we should all be looking out for. With the arrival of the eBook and self published Indie novels it is all but impossible to be able to share with you every single book that is due for release each week but we can share with you the latest hardbacks being released.
This week we have selected five new releases for the week commencing September 5th, we apologise to your TBR lists in advance.
Blood Wedding – Pierre Lemaitre (Psychological Thriller/Mystery)
Haunted by visions from the past and things she can’t remember Sophie’s world is thrown into chaos when she awakes one morning to find the little boy in her care is dead. She has no idea how, why or who killed him but the evidence points at her, her only chance is a new life in a new place with a man she met online. But those secrets have followed her and they’re not all hers.
Closed Casket – Sophie Hannah (Mystery)
Sophie Hannah continues with her take on Agatha Christie’s iconic Hercule Poirot mysteries and in this second mystery he and his little grey cells have to discover the motive and murderer of Lady Athelinda Playford. Was her urgent changing of her will cutting off her two children a sign that she knew she was to meet her doom? The Belgian Detective has his work cut out to solve this one.
Everfair – Nisi Shawl (Speculative Fiction/Alternate History)
A beautifully written book about the neo-Victorian era and what might have happened had the disastrous attempt at the colonisation of the Congo by Belgian explorers had gone differently. Told through the many and often ignored voices of Africans, Europeans, East Asians, and African Americans all in complex relationships with one another, and all traditionally silenced this speculative masterpiece manages to turn one of the worst human rights disasters on record into a marvellous and exciting exploration of the possibilities .
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(UK rel Oct 13)
Mischling – Affinity Konar (Historical Fiction))
1944 Germany is not a good place to be an identical twin, Auschwitz and Pearl and her sister Stasha who find themselves experiencing both the privileges and the horrors of those who were placed in Josef Mengele’s Zoo. After Pearl disappears whilst at a concert orchestrated by Mengele Stasha grieves for and hopes for her sister in equal measure and once liberated along with another surviving twin goes on a quest to avenge their siblings’ deaths across Poland.
The Red Bandanna – Tom Rinaldi (Biography)
One Sunday morning before church, when Welles Crowther was a young boy, his father gave him a red handkerchief for his back pocket. Welles kept it with him that day, and just about every day to come; it became a fixture and his signature.
Despite dreaming of becoming a firefighter Crowther’s life saw him working a Wall Street job on the 104th floor of the Twin Towers on September 11th 2001. His parents did not now what had become of him and eventually had to accept the fact that he was never coming home, but what could they discover of his final hours?
Then they heard of the tale of one young man who had just carried a woman on his back down 20 flights of stairs, a man who turned to survivors and said, I am going back up, a man whose name they did not know, a man who was wearing a red bandanna.
There you are, five new releases just waiting for you to slot them onto your bookshelves and add to your TBR lists. If you do treat yourselves, don’t forget to send us in your reviews.
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