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✨📚 COVER REVEAL 📚✨One of these guests has a date with death…🖋️🩸🖋️Arbuthnot ‘Arbie’ Swift arrives at Dashwood House, a gl...
15/08/2025

✨📚 COVER REVEAL 📚✨

One of these guests has a date with death…

🖋️🩸🖋️

Arbuthnot ‘Arbie’ Swift arrives at Dashwood House, a glamorously modern hotel in the up-and-coming resort of Galton-next-the-Sea, but all plans for a relaxing stay are scuppered when one of the guests is found dead.

The body is found in the writing room, the victim part of a set visiting the seaside town for an engagement party, which happens to include Arbie’s old friend, Val.

Familiar with Val and Arbie’s previous experience in solving puzzling crimes, the bride asks the pair to investigate. They quickly discover that the victim had no shortage of enemies, and many of the guests are up to no good. But who is simply hiding a secret, and who is hiding murder?

THE LAST WORD IS DEATH by Faith Martin, is the gripping second instalment in The Val & Arbie Mysteries series!

Out in paperback on 25th September, this brilliant historical cozy crime mystery, perfect for fans of Richard Osman, is available to pre-order now! 👉 amzn.to/4llUC6V

'A heartwarming story of hope, second chances and starting over' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Brilliant cosy read’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Couldn’t put it do...
14/08/2025

'A heartwarming story of hope, second chances and starting over'
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'Brilliant cosy read’
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‘Couldn’t put it down! I loved the sense of community’
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Discover the healing power of community with The Second Chance Supper Club by Caroline Roberts! 💙

Perfect for fans of Jill Mansell and Milly Johnson, this charming, feel-good second chance romance is now available in eBook for just 99p!

Grab your copy today 👉 amzn.to/4fClLBh

💙 PUBLICATION DAY 💙Join us in wishing a very happy publication day to these brilliant authors and their new books!✨ Aphr...
14/08/2025

💙 PUBLICATION DAY 💙

Join us in wishing a very happy publication day to these brilliant authors and their new books!

✨ Aphrodite by Phoenicia Rogerson
✨ Beautiful People by Amanda Jennings
✨ Alice Carver Manifests Her Perfect Life by Hannah Lake
✨ Till Death Do Us Part Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
✨ Love In Pieces by Anouska Knight
✨ Bad Influencer by Rosie Nixon
✨ The Face Behind the Mask by Helen Phifer

Have you got any of these wonderful reads on your tbr?

14/08/2025

Would you love to have lunch with Sunday Times #1 bestselling author Adele Parks?

PLUS a meet & greet, author Q&A, and SINGED copy of Our Beautiful Mess 😍

Get your tickets here from Plackitt & Booth 🎟️👉 https://plackittandbooth.co.uk/events/

✨📚 COVER REVEAL 📚✨Violet Brewster returns in this brand-new festive murder mystery! ❄️🕵️‍♀️ 🎄In the charming village of ...
13/08/2025

✨📚 COVER REVEAL 📚✨

Violet Brewster returns in this brand-new festive murder mystery!

❄️🕵️‍♀️ 🎄

In the charming village of Merrywell, an exciting new Christmas Market is bringing festive cheer and bustling crowds.

But just as the stallholders toast a successful first day with mulled wine in the village bookshop, someone rushes in to announce that a body has been found. Once again in the wrong place at the wrong time, Violet Brewster is on hand to offer the police her astute – if perhaps unwelcome – opinion on the crime.

While the police dismiss the death as an accident, Violet senses that there’s more to this tragedy than meets the eye. Determined to uncover the truth, she must navigate a maze of secrets and lies before the killer strikes again. As the festive season unfolds, can Violet solve the mystery before it’s too late?

A CHRISTMAS MURDER IN MERRYWELL by Writing Network is a brilliant new cosy murder mystery to curl up with in front of the fire, perfect for fans of Clare Chase and Katie Gayle.

Out on 9th October, it’s available to request on NetGalley now! 👉 bit.ly/4mFS0ly

13/08/2025

✨ COVER REVEAL ✨

Can they find each other in every lifetime after…?

We are so happy to be able to share the cover for the enchanting, epic love-story, Every Lifetime After.

Perfect for fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid, is by Jenny Ashcroft, writing as Jennifer Ross.

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Claudia is searching for her past.

Grieving and isolated amidst the faux-glamour of Hollywood, A-list star Claudia Baxter is desperate for an escape. But when she chooses the Yorkshire estate of Doverley as home to her next project – an epic romance set in the throes of war – Claudia is astonished to find herself slipping into the story, into the life of her heroine, into time…

Iris can’t unsee her future.

Radio operative Iris Winterton sits in the grounds of Doverley on a moonless night, watching planes fly across Europe. Her stare is fixed on one plane in particular – inside is the man she has loved since childhood. But Iris already knows that this time he’s not going to come back, and she will be the reason why.

Together, can they complete their story?

Books about books 📚🧳☕️📜🤎Q: what’s your favourite bookshop?
12/08/2025

Books about books 📚🧳☕️📜🤎

Q: what’s your favourite bookshop?

'Exceptional'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'I absolutely loved this book and literally could not put it down'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'A terrific read with a heart i...
11/08/2025

'Exceptional'
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'I absolutely loved this book and literally could not put it down'
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'A terrific read with a heart in your mouth finale'
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Deadly Reckoning by Liz Mistry, is a brand-new intense and gripping Scottish police procedural crime thriller, perfect for fans of Stuart MacBride, Val McDermid and Angela Marsons.

Available for just 99p in eBook for a limited time only, grab your copy today! 👉 amzn.to/4m65KpE

'I could not put this down! The twists and turns – I did NOT see them coming!' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️'I haven’t read a book with s...
10/08/2025

'I could not put this down! The twists and turns – I did NOT see them coming!'
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'I haven’t read a book with such well developed characters in a long time and this book manages to match that with a fast, clever plot.'
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'A twisty, atmospheric story that's deeper and more complex than your everyday domestic thriller'
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The Neighbours by Emma Babbington Author, is a brand-new gripping thriller, full of family secrets and psychological suspense.

Available for just 99p in eBook for a limited time only, grab your copy today! 👉 amzn.to/4mazJwV

‘Dark, twisty secrets that resurface under a Corsican sun – a perfect summer thriller’ T Orr MunroSomeone in the Water b...
10/08/2025

‘Dark, twisty secrets that resurface under a Corsican sun – a perfect summer thriller’ T Orr Munro

Someone in the Water by Sarah Clarke Author, is just 99p in eBook for a limited time only!

Grab a copy today! 👉 amzn.to/416uNAP

Are you a fan of:🍁 Forced proximity🍁 Grumpy x sunshine🍁 Cosy autumnal spiceWe have the perfect romantic read for you!Per...
09/08/2025

Are you a fan of:
🍁 Forced proximity
🍁 Grumpy x sunshine
🍁 Cosy autumnal spice

We have the perfect romantic read for you!

Perfect for fans of Laurie Gilmore and Bonnie Woods, You Had Me at Pumpkin Patch by Anita Faulkner - Author, is an utterly charming new cosy romance to lose yourself in 🧡

But don't just take our word for it. Readers are falling hard for this romance!

'I inhaled this book and adored it… An absolute must add to your autumn bookshelf'
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'This book had me hooked. I kept turning page after page'
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'It brought all the feels of Autumn and I am here for it!
A gorgeous read'
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Out on 28th August, its available to request on NetGalley now! 👉 bit.ly/45Qalao

Lily Holmes is ready for a fresh start. And there’s no better place to begin again than the idyllic seaside town of Marr...
07/08/2025

Lily Holmes is ready for a fresh start. And there’s no better place to begin again than the idyllic seaside town of Marram Bay.

All Lily wants to do is focus on making her new deli a success and ensuring her son’s happiness. Not the postcard creeping out of her handbag, and definitely not finding a new man in her life!

But this isn’t going to be as easy as she first thought. The town is in uproar about the city girl who’s dared to join them and she’s fighting a battle at every turn.

Perhaps with a little help from the gorgeous cider farmer next door, she may be able to win them over, but her past secrets threaten to ruin everything…

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This stunning new edition of Falling For You by Portia Macintosh - Bestselling Author is out on 28th August! 🍁💛

Pre-order your copy now 👉 amzn.to/4myGp7S

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