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Happy New Year!! Books to look forward to.

  • Submitted: 1st January 2025

Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year Book lovers everywhere. This is going to be a FANTASTIC year for reading and going on literary adventures. Some highlights for the first two months of this new year of books.

January

Gone to Earth Jane Jesmond

GONE TO EARTH

Glasgow

Still reeling from a life-threatening experience on the coast of Calais, daredevil climber Jen Shaw finds herself in Glasgow for a funeral. Trouble is, there’s another life-threatening experience right around the corner.

 

 

 

 

 

The Day of the Roaring Nina Bhadreshwar

THE DAY OF THE ROARING

Sheffield

A dismembered body of a headmaster is found on the derelict site of a former school in Sheffield.

 

 

 

 

 

Beautiful Ugly Alice FeeneyBEAUTIFUL UGLY

Remote Scottish Island

A man is on the phone with his wife when he hears her stop, get out of the car and then…nothing. Disappeared into thin air.

A year later, he goes to get away from it all and head to a remote Scottish island. There’s hardly anyone there. However, he’s sure he recognises someone. OMG it’s his wife?

 

 

 

 

February

Nephthys Rachel Louise Driscoll

NEPHYTHYS

Alexandria

Quiet and reserved, Clemmie is gifted when it comes to reading hieroglyphs – she’s often the entertainment at Egyptian relic parties. However at one party, Clemmie reads the symbols on an unusual object and she is horrified by what she finds….

 

 

 

 

The Inheritance Trisha Sakhlecha

THE INHERITANCE

A Scottish island

On a private island off the west coast of Scotland, the Agarwals gather for a much-awaited family reunion…

 

 

 

 

 

The Wolf Tree Laura McCluskeyThe WOLF TREE

AN ISOLATED SCOTTISH ISLAND

Ooh can you imagine just what goes on when you arrive on a remote and very isolated Scottish island?

 

 

 

 

 

And there are plenty more where these came from. Check back here soon! Booktrails every day…

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Nephthys

1891: Sister. Rival. Protector. The spellbinding story of a forgotten daughter and a forgotten goddess.

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