“I thought I had made myself clear. I want something that conveys her majesty, her bloodline. Do you understand? She is no ordinary mortal. Treat her thus.” [ About the Book ] Winter, 1561. Lucrezia, Duchess of Ferrara, is taken on an unexpected visit to a country villa by her husband, Alfonso. As they sit…
She thinks of blue mountain, her favourite place. ‘We’re going somewhere where we can be safe. We never have to come back here.’– blue hour [ About the Book ] As the rest of the world lies sleeping, Eleanor straps her infant daughter, Amy, into the back of her car. This is the moment she knew…
‘Based around the known facts of the boyhood and youth of the great Cornish poet, Charles Causley and the life of the mother who raised him singlehandedly.’– Mother’s Boy [ About the Book ] Laura, an impoverished Cornish girl, meets her husband when they are both in service in Teignmouth in 1916. They have a…
‘How much longer will I go on believing you are still coming home?’– Will this house last forever? [ About the Book ] When Xanthi Barker’s father died when she was in her mid twenties, she could make no sense of her grief for a man who had been absent for most of her life.…
I am Ana.I was the wife of Jesus.. – The Book of Longings The day has finally arrived…. The exceptional and extraordinary new novel The Book of Longings, by No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Sue Monk Kidd, is published today with Tinder Press. I was very lucky to have received an advance copy…
‘TWO EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE. A LOVE THAT DRAWS THEM TOGETHER. A LOSS THAT THREATENS TO TEAR THEM APART.‘– Hamnet [ About the Book ] On a summer’s day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? Their…
STEP INTO A WORLD LESS ORDINARY-Escape Routes [ About the Book ] A space-obsessed child conjures up a vortex in his mother’s airing cupboard. A musician finds her friendship with a flock of birds opens up unexpected possibilities. A rat catcher, summoned to a decaying royal palace, is plunged into a battle for the throne…
Yesterday Lydia had a bookshopYesterday Lydia was married to a journalistYesterday she was with everyone she loved most in the worldToday, her eight-year-old son Luca is all she has left.For him, she will carry a machete strapped to her leg.For him, she will leap onto the roof of a high speed train.For him, she will…
REMEMBER YOUR JUST-IN-CASESBEWARE TALL BUILDINGSWATCH YOUR SIX [ About the Book ] Raised by her mother and Maeve on Slanbeg, an island off the west coast of Ireland, Orpen has a childhood of love and stories by the fireside. But the stories grow darker, and the training begins. Ireland has been devoured by a ravening…
The Story Keeper is the second novel from Anna Mazzola and will be published by Tinder Press on 26th July. A dark and very atmospheric novel!!