Feel-Good Stories by Sarah Swatridge Overall Blurb – An eclectic mix of heart-warming stories, full of memorable, quirky characters. Read about the heroic postie, the eccentric duke, a spoilt parrot, a true friend and a determined would-be husband. Perfect bite-sized reading with your favourite drink. Choose Your Words Carefully page 36 For people interested in the importance and power of words.

The Crooked Medium’s Guide to Terror (The Crooked Medium 2) True terror is a murderer you can’t stop. London 1882. A carpenter is killed by a train - an eerie, brutal crime. Flamboyant medium Mrs Ashton and her sapphic partner Braddie seek justice for the widow. A charismatic new medium takes London by storm. Dock-lass Maisie sees her frightening prophesy of vengeance.

Description When the skeletons of a young woman and a baby are uncovered ona long-abandoned farm in Hvalfjörður, it is clear they were buriedyears apart. West Iceland CID begins to investigate the disturbingdiscovery, aware that someone has gone to great lengths to keep thepast hidden. In Akranes, Karitas, a young single mother seeking a new start, settles…

ORIGIN Book Two of the Gate Origin Series Kade Renn and the crew of The Moth have crossed the ancient gate and reached Origin — the dead world at the centre of the network.They arrive damaged, low on air and cut off from the route behind them. Lira’s breathing system is failing. Vessa is wounded. Nix is carrying heat he cannot shed.

Description Discover the fascinating history of medicine, from its primitive beginnings to the life-saving technologies of today. Now in paperback! In The History of Medicine in Twelve Objects, Dr Carol Cooper takes readers on an engaging, humorous, and sometimes gruesome journey through the 12 objects that have come to define medicine through the ages. Over the years, with increasingly more knowledge about health and disease, the ways in which doctors engage with sickness have evolved, and so have the tools used to treat patients.

Description An outrageous blend of cosy crime and biting social satire for fans of Richard Osman, Mick Herron, and Marina Lewycka. Janus Lodge isn’t your typical retirement community. Sylvia Abercrombie and her knitting-obsessed gang of octogenarians are feisty, foul- mouthed, and fiercely protective of their home. So when a shady developer plots to evict them and build a 'gentlemen’s club', they hatch an audacious plan to save their sanctuary – by starting a secret knitwear empire with a scandalous twist.

Format: 265 pages, PaperbackPublished: September 7, 2023 by Dead InkISBN: 9781915368027 Description WINNER OF BRITISH FANTASY AWARD FOR BEST IN NON-FICTION 2024 For as long as humans have existed, they have asked: What if? Science fiction was a defining genre of the postwar era, and its current boom across books, film and TV shows no sign of slowing. Space ships, time travel, aliens and artificial intelligence continue to obsess us, and dreams of the apocalypse haunt our own post-pandemic age.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Granta BooksPublication date ‏ : ‎ 12 Feb. 2026Language ‏ : ‎ EnglishPrint length ‏ : ‎ 415 pagesISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1783789638ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1783789634 Description The discovery of minerals beneath our feet has transformed our species. Ochre first prompted humans to express themselves in art; tin and copper helped instigate the Bronze Age and later the Industrial Revolution; silver kick-started the engines of global trade.

Description In the cities and untamed wilds of Ireland, monsters are rising up against Unionists. Luckily, Sam and Hel aren't English. Samantha Harker and Dr. Helena Moriarty might have solved the Paris case, but that doesn't mean the Royal Society for the Study of Abnormal Phenomena trusts them. Sam's power to see into the minds of monsters is a slippery slope to corruption.

Format: 244 pages, HardcoverPublished: May 5, 2026 by Tor BooksISBN: 9781250827005 Description Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good. After volunteering to run a rescue mission, Murderbot realizes that it will have to spend significant time with a bunch of humans it doesn't know. Including human children. Ugh. This may well call for... eye contact!

Another prequal from the Empire of the Wolf! I'm very much looking forward to this novella and adding a hardback edition to my collection, eventually. Waiting on the ARC at the moment. Book Description It is winter in the Empire of the Wolf, and the town of Eisbrück burns with plague. Whilst physicians struggle to contain the pox, the atmosphere thickens with recrimination and rumour: talk of inauspicious constellations, and a demonic witch filling the streets with bodies and black magick.

Genre: Space OperaAge Category: AdultNumber of Pages: 480 PagesPublication Date: July 28, 2026 (digital edition) May 26, 2026 (hardcover edition) Goodreads: (Canada) (USA) (UK) Blurb A forgotten wreck. A forbidden map. A gate that should never have been opened. On the salvage moon of Veyra's Fall, Kade Renn only wants one thing: a working air filter for his sick sister, Lira.

Description A deadly contagion spreads throughout the world, while scientists grapple to find a cure before it's too late... Dr. Monica Cucinotta works on the front lines of a hospital in Cassino, Italy,dealing with a deadly contagion that causes thorns to erupt along the surface of the body. When Monica becomes infected with the virus and must leave the hospital, she begins ajourney across the dark landscape of a pandemic world where she meets the best and worst of humanity that tests her belief in science and faith as she struggles to return home to her loved ones.

Price: £20.00Fiction: FICTION / Science Fiction /Genetic EngineeringProduct format: HardbackiSBN: 978-1-78758-948-3Pages: 288 pp Description Hardcover with sprayed edges. In the sequel to A Rebel’s History of Mars, Azad and his fellow time-traveling historians must contend with the consequences of the dark secrets they’ve exposed… After exposing the dark origins of his world on the distant planet of Nabatea, Azad is a fugitive, hunted across the galaxy by the fearsome Vitruvian Authorities.

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Book Description The year is 2050. In the teeth of a climate catastrophe, the world is left with a drastic solution: one global leader to steer it through the coming apocalypse. The final two candidates are ex-US President Lockwood, and Solomon, the world’s first political artificial intelligence. As whispers of a global conspiracy emerge, investigative journalist Marcus Tully find himself at the centre of it – when Solomon’s creator turns up murdered.

Due to be published by Grim Dark Magazine in August, this novella by C.L. Clark sounds like it'll be a very good read. I've reviewed one GdM novella and there's another on my currently reading pile, so I'm really looking forward to getting my ARC of this book. Book Description Kill the beast.Earn some coin.Get the girl. Or at least, that’s how it was supposed to go.

Thought Savage Woman, by Blessin Adams. I have a few spec fic books lined up for later this month and July, but I felt the need for history. I'm also trying to work through my TBR pile. A lot of my books have been packed, but there are a lot more to go. I'm being evicted. It's a Section 21 no fault eviction, but it feels like an insult amd injury.

Price: £20.00Fiction: FICTION / Science Fiction /GeneralProduct format: HardbackISBN: 978-1-78758-963-6Pages: 336 pp Description A ship, a gun, and a nice teal robe to find one killer on a planet ofcriminals: will Qays Mendoza get the answers he is looking for?Qays Mendoza get the answers he is looking for? On the edges of mankind’s domain there is a penal planet called Fresh Start…

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Grimdark MagazinePublication date ‏ : ‎ 30 Jun. 2026Language ‏ : ‎ EnglishPrint length ‏ : ‎ 176 pagesISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1923459052 Book Description Low Town is the worst slum in the Empire, where lives are sold on the penny. Once its heir apparent, Wren returns after fifteen years to a city in turmoil, the syndicates feuding and the city on the brink of rebellion.

ISBN: 9781837263462Publication date: 04/06/2026Price: £9.99 Description When you are a prisoner of your secrets, the death of shame is the only path to liberty. Annabel Banks was promised work as a maid with a prestigious Edinburghfamily. But on her first day, she’s nowhere to be found. Concerned relativescontact Sarah Fisher to help. Sarah might know her way around the city – its…

Series: DCI Liam Doyle Crime ThrillersNarrator: Aubrey ParsonsRelease date: 27-03-26Language: EnglishFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hrsPublisher: Howfen Press Murder, witchcraft, and a race against time – welcome to Pendle Hill. A young woman is found brutally murdered and mutilated at the foot of Pendle Hill and the local police are in no doubt who the killer is.

Format: 320 pages, PaperbackPublished: May 12, 2026 by Tachyon PublicationsISBN: 9781616964566 (ISBN10: 1616964561) Book Description A script supervisor for an AI media conglomerate is caught between her intense need for an orderly life and her deeper, darker queer desires. From the creator of the Outside trilogy, a heartfelt interplanetary epic of identity, longing, and a space pirate who smuggles inappropriate stories.

Format: Audible AudioPublished: November 11, 2025 by Macmillan AudioASIN: B0DVBCXB4VLanguage: English Description Return to the cosy fantasy world of the #1 New York Times bestselling Legends & Lattes series with a new adventure featuring fan-favourite, foul-mouthed bookseller, Fern. Fern has weathered the stillness and storms of a bookseller’s life for decades, but now, in the face of crippling ennui, transplants herself to the city of Thune to hang out her shingle beside a long-absent friend’s coffee shop.

ISBN: 9780857506436PRICE:£22.00 (GBP)PAGES: 336 Publisher: Random House UK Publication Date: 28th May 2026 Description Meet the women throughout history who, quite literally, came before us. From the host of award-winning History Hit podcast Betwixt the Sheets. There is a common misconception that before modern day feminism, women throughout history simply lay back and thought of England or their respective place of origin; that the modern ‘sex positive’ movement is a radical break from the past.

EDITION: Other FormatISBN: 9781035083350PRICE: £18.99 (GBP)PAGES: 224 Publication date: 1st October 2026 Publisher: TOR Description From Sunday Times bestseller Travis Baldree, Tales from the Territory is a beautiful collection of cosy fantasy tales, set in the much-loved world of Legends & Lattes. There are many tales yet untold . . . 'GOBLINS & GREATCOATS': Chaos goblin Zyll is involved in a case of mistaken identity, where she solves a murder at an inn whilst simultaneously stealing all the cutlery.

Pub. date 07 May 2026Price £9.99ISBN-13 9781788425940 Description Chocks away! as our feline detectives investigate some sticky situations at the local chocolate factory in Catberry-on-the-Brink.Up at the Manor House, the family is at war as dark secrets are uncovered in The Tabby in Black chocolate selection box.Will Hettie and Tilly manage to reach the bottom layer before a murderer…

My Review The publisher sent me this ARC a couple of months ago and it was on my list for June, but I've got a gap and I thought I'd read it now. It came with a lovely letter, a magpie feather and some beech seeds. I made a post on Instagram last week when I had read the first 23 chapters.

3rd February 2026978-1-915556-67-7£8.99 Description Luna Novell #24 When Clifford crash lands on the planet of Abaddon, he might as well be dead: a terrible plague and a strict quarantine mean that no one leaves Abaddon alive. Clifford isn’t the only dead man walking. Corporate mercenaries and desperate survivors are looking for ways to live in a hostile world. Constantly on the run from flesh-hungry monsters, there’s no chance to escape or to build something more. 

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Release Date: 2025-09-23Formats: Ebook, PaperbackEBook ISBN: 23rd September 2025 | 9781915998293 | epub | £4.99/$6.99/$7.99Paperback ISBN: 23rd September 2025 | 9781915998286 | Trade paperback | £9.99/$18.99/$24.99 Book Description Two in the eye of the storm. Two in touch with the end. Syzenne. A princess? Or a mere bargaining chip in a contest between two powers? Duna. A teenage girl dragged into a war by a fanatical priest?

Pub date: 21 May 2026ISBN 13: 978-1-916788-96-1EPUB: 978-1-916788-97-8Price: £9.99 Buy Link: THE BOOK Icelandic detective-in-training Sigurdís is studying criminal psychology in the US, but her plans are thrown into disarray when she discovers that her boss and mentor, Garðar, has been fired from Reykjavík CID over his investigation into Sigurdís’s father’s death. Returning to Iceland to deal with the fallout, Sigurdís finds herself pulled into a disturbing case: controversial TV personality Olga Einars has been stabbed to death during the Reykjavík Marathon.

About the book A brutal assault nine months ago left eccentric portrait artist Micah with facial scars and PTSD. He’s struggled to leave his apartment ever since, and he can’t let anyone in. Then his only sanctuary is disrupted by signs of a haunting. Between the 80s synth pop and motivation messages scrawled on his bathroom mirror, Micah finds himself more charmed than frightened by who he believes to be Cosmo, the deceased previous resident of his apartment.

PUBLICATION DATE: 21 MAY 2026HARDBACK ORIGINAL | £ 16. 99 | ORENDA BOOKS Book Description Hannah is miserable. Her love life is in ruins, her contract demands a sequel to her bestselling crime debut – and she’s out of ideas. After a mortifying TV interview, her agent ships her off to a sun-drenched Sicilian villa with a simple order: finish the book.

PUBLICATION DATE: 7th MAY 2026PAPERBACK ORIGINAL | £ 9. 99 | ORENDA BOOKS Get your copy here: Description Martha Strangeways has settled into a quiet life in Strathbran, after the horrific events that traumatised the village a year earlier. But all this isturned upside down when her friend at Glasgow CID, DI Derek Summers,calls on her to help with a disturbing case: a human ear, with an unusual Celtic earring, has been found next to a railway line in the Highlands.

Published Date - 2026-03-09ISBN - 9781919396910Page Count - 425Publisher - Godrevy PublishingLanguage - English Author Website Description The gods are gone. Magic is lost. Vengeance is nigh. There is death in the north; entire settlements slaughtered in the night by unknown hands. But dead things do not rest. Mages and scholars from across Breitho search for answers, to no avail.

PUBLICATION DATE: 26th FEBRUARY 2026PAPERBACK ORIGINAL | £ 9. 99 | ORENDA BOOKS In Wilhelmsburg, Hamburg’s so-called ‘problem area’, an American couple is found brutally murdered in a derelict house. Prosecutor Chastity Riley is assigned the case and quickly finds herself waist-deep in a murky tangle of city planners, shady investors and vanishing officials. The gentrification machine is rolling on, and someone is sending a very clear message.

Publisher: Angry Robot Publication date: 24th February 2026 ISBN: 978-1-915998-44-6 Format: Paperback Price: £9.99 Book Description Extinction Horizon meets Contagion in this sequel to 2025’s sci-fi thriller Symbiote, where the biological threat has escaped the South Pole and is now wreaking havoc upon Antarctica. The survivors of the South Pole massacre will find that getting off the Antarctic continent may cost them their lives…

Book Description No one knows exactly how the Goblin War began, but folks will tell you that goblins are stinking, slinking, filthy, sheep-stealing, henhouse-raiding, obnoxious, rude, and violent. Goblins would actually agree with all this, and might throw in “cowardly” and “lazy” too for good measure. But goblins don't go around killing people for fun, no matter what the propaganda posters say.