New Book Releases

SEPTEMBER IS ALWAYS A VERY BUSY BOOK PUBLISHING MONTH. HERE ARE SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS!

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THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT BY MAGGIE O’FARRELL

O’Farrell’s Hamnet was a huge global success and won nearly every literary award there is. Her latest offering is an imagining of the life of Lucrezia de Medici. Lucrezia was the daughter of the two most powerful people in Italy in the 16th Century, and the inspiration for Robert Browning’s famous poem, My Last Duchess. When her older sister dies on the eve of her wedding to Alfonso, ruler of Ferrara, Moderna and Regio, Lucrezia is offered as his bride instead. However, despite her young age, Lucrezia’s only role is to provide a male heir for Alfonso. If she can’t do that, her life could be in danger. O’Farrell does more than provide a well-researched historical novel. She brings Lucrezia de Medici to life.

CARRIE SOTO IS BACK BY TAYLOR JENKINS REID

TikTok sensation, Taylor Jenkins Reid, is back with one of the most hotly anticipated novels of the year. Carrie Soto is the best tennis player that the world has every seen, and possibly the least liked. Trained by her tennis pro father from the age of two, she was relentless and focused, earning her the title ‘The Battle-Axe’. By the time she retired at 31 she had won twenty grand slam titles and had broken every record there was. She sacrificed everything to be the best, and she was. Six years later Carrie watches horrified as new rising star, Nikki Chan, smashes all her records at the US Open. Carrie decides to come out of retirement to attempt the impossible: one year back on the circuit to reclaim all her titles. And she will stop at nothing to succeed. A beautiful, intriguing, and emotional novel full of heart and warmth.

THE LONG KNIVES BY IRVINE WELSH

Ritchie Gulliver is an MP. He is rich, racist, corrupt, and vicious. He is also dead. He was castrated and left to bleed out in a warehouse. Considering the type of person he was, the list of suspects is endless. He had many political and corporate rivals and there were just as many individuals and groups who fell prey to his cruelty, mostly the vulnerable and marginalised in society. Detective Ray Lennox is tasked with bringing the guilty party to justice. However, as he looks through the many people Gilliver has offended, hurt, and bullied it becomes difficult to see who the real victim is. As the attacks continue, Lennox must bury his feelings to catch a killer, even if the victim was a monster.

THE INK BLACK HEART BY ROBERT GALBRAITH

The sixth instalment in the hugely successful Cormoran Strike series works perfectly as a standalone novel. Private detective Robin Ellacott is approached by frantic cartoon creator Edie Ledwell. He is being harassed online by someone calling themselves Anomie, and he wants help finding the person’s true identity. Believing the agency is not best placed to help, Robin refuses the case, however, when Edie is murdered, Robin is compelled to investigate and calls on her business partner, Cormoran Strike, to help. They soon find themselves caught up in a web of online aliases and family dramas that will put them in danger and test their powers of deduction to the limits. A tense and exciting crime thriller. THE BULLET THAT MISSED BY RICHARD OSMAN

The mystery solving octogenarians are back in the third instalment of Richard Osman’s beloved Thursday Murder Club series. This time they are trying to solve the ten-year-old cold case of a journalist who drove her car off a cliff in an apparent suicide, however, the body was never found. Meanwhile, former MI5 operative, Elizabeth has been given a kill or be killed ultimatum by a man known as The Viking. Assisted by friends in the police, a TV news anchor, money launderers and a former head of the KGB, the four friends must catch a killer or risk becoming the next victims. Filled with humour and suspense, The Bullet that Missed is the perfect mix of poignancy and charm. e

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