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06/06/2026

Join us at Bookish Crickhowell on Wednesday 10th June for an unmissable event with Ben Giles📘🎤 Perfect for fans of true crime and unusual professional confessionals!

Ben shares firsthand accounts of his most harrowing and bizarre experiences, offering readers an insider’s look at a profession that few understand. Blending dark humour with poignant reflections, Ben’s relatable anecdotes and candid confessions provide a refreshing take on the true crime genre. Beyond the gruesome details, Ben imparts valuable lessons on resilience, entrepreneurship, and the importance of tackling life’s messes, both literal and metaphorical.

This event will be followed by audience Q&A and book signing!

🎟️ Tickets: £10 without book or £28 with book
📍Venue: The Loft at Bookish (access by stairs) is located in our flagship store in Crickhowell. Please use the front door entrance from 6.45pm.

The bookshop will be open before the event and for a limited time after the event. Any books purchased on the night will be 10% off.

05/06/2026

New PI. First case: a rock star found dead. 🔍🎸

Ethan Adler wanted quiet - he gets a media storm instead. His late wife’s death still haunts him: rumors she was pregnant with another man, and he won the lottery hours before she died. Suspicion follows him like a shadow.

With his sharp assistant Amelia, Ethan peels back a web of lies: jealous bandmates, a volatile manager, and unreleased tracks leaked on the dark web - are the lyrics clues or a trap?

Trust no one. Secrets surface. Past and present collide. Who’s playing who?

THE WRONG MAN by Chris McDonald is OUT NOW!

04/06/2026

After another horrendous first date, Lizzie is DONE with the apps. No more swiping. No more small talk.

Instead, she’s hatching a plan so brilliantly chaotic that her two best gal pals can’t say no: the ex-swap. It’s genius, each woman nominates her finest ex – even if Lizzie’s just so happens to be her work bestie – someone who’s perfect on paper but just not the one. Pre-vetted, best-friend approved and practically gift-wrapped.

Is it a slightly unhinged plan? Of course. But if worst comes to worst, it’ll be a funny story; a no-pressure experiment in second-chance romance.

Equal parts rom‑com, chaos, and second‑chance sparks - THE BEST EX OF MY LIFE by Emmy Hart is now available to read on NetGalley!

04/06/2026

It’s publication day for THE BEAUTIFUL DEATH OF OZZY OSBOURNE🦇

Pioneering metal writer Keith Kahn-Harris presents a moving, visionary exploration of Ozzy Osbourne, and of metal music and culture!

What is a ‘good death’?

How about this: After years of terrible health, you gather friends and admirers for one last, glorious party. A couple of weeks later, you slip away, surrounded by your loving family. Then, the world comes to mourn. That is how Birmingham’s favourite son, Ozzy Osbourne, died.

By his death in June 2025 – at an age few believed he’d reach – Ozzy was much-loved, far beyond the metal world. Once a feared, demonic figure to some (and a joke to others), his Back to the Beginning farewell concert at Villa Park raised millions for charity.
In concise, arresting chapters moving from Death to Life via Art, Politics, S*x, Bodies, Voice, Family, Myth and more, Kahn-Harris explores how Ozzy – of all people! – attracted such generosity of spirit. The answer, he finds, is deeply embedded within the story and culture of metal – and has lessons for us all.

💜 ‘A tremendous book which deftly explains how Ozzy was emblematic of metal as a whole: flawed, vital, ridiculous yet sublime’ Dan Franklin, author of Heavy: How Metal Changes the Way We See the World

💜 ‘Spellbinding … with verve and intelligence Kahn-Harris makes the case that the nutrients of this once maligned subculture feed the mind as plentifully as the gut. Can metal teach us how to live? Of course it can, it IS life’ Ian Winwood, author of Bodies: Life and Death in Music

💜 ‘Authoritative but not pompous, tender but not sentimental, and suffused with Keith Kahn-Harris’s love of the music, this is the only book that captures what matters most about metal’ Michael Hann, author of Denim and Leather: The Rise and Fall of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal

💜 ‘Keith Kahn-Harris shows us that by channelling our higher Ozzy we may discover a path towards the better angels of our nature’ Tariq Goddard

04/06/2026

Happy publication day to THE WRONG MAN by Chris McDonald!

⭐ ‘A slice of contemporary PI noir to delight fans of the genre’ Vaseem Khan

⭐ ‘Pacy and addictive, with wonderfully realised characters and a genius central premise, I ripped through it in a day’ Adam Simcox

⭐ ‘The Wrong Man is heading to the top charts – with a bullet!’ Trevor Wood

⭐ ‘It’s fun, twisty, and a fab start to a brilliant new series!’ Sam Holland

⭐ ‘The menacing streets of Manchester rub shoulders with rockstar glamour as danger lurks at every turn’ Natalie Chandler

⭐ ‘The Wrong Man is everything you want in a British private investigator novel. It’s fun and fast-paced with a plot that never lets up’ M W Craven

When Ethan Adler set up his new PI agency in central Manchester, he wasn’t expecting his first case to be so high profile – investigating the mysterious death of rock star Dylan Vy.

In a fast-escalating investigation, with the help of his assistant, Amelia, they uncover a labyrinth of secrets, lies and deadly connections between bandmates, girlfriends and a volatile manager. And when Dylan’s unreleased music is leaked on the dark web, speculation swirls that the lyrics contain hidden clues that might lead to the killer. But who leaked these songs, and what is their secret motive? In the midst of a media frenzy and a storm of fan conspiracy theories, who can Ethan trust?

As Ethan digs deeper, he must also confront his own demons - the lingering questions his beloved wife’s untimely death and the growing realisation that those closest to him may have played a role…

04/06/2026

Happy publication day to RED DRAGON SONG by Catrin Cadogan✨🐉

RED DRAGON SONG is an epic tale inspired by Welsh mythology, available to purchase from all good bookshops today!

In a land bound by mysterious plagues which have forced silence on the country, one woman’s quest for freedom takes flight...

Inspired by the nation’s legends, the story follows fiery Arianwen on a quest for freedom and a fight to save the land she loves, accompanied by a dragon and its dangerously charismatic (and incredibly good looking) male companion, Edern. Ancient curses, mythical creatures, enemies-to-lovers romance, and - of course - an epic battle... As Ari steps out of the shadows, who will she become when the sky finally answers her song?

RED DRAGON SONG is dazzling new adventure which will transport you into an breathtaking tale of blazing desire, heartbreaking bargains, mythical creatures, and the music and stories which shaped a nation.

21/05/2026

Happy paperback publication to SUNDAY BEST by Daniel Gray, an evocative celebration of the seventh day in all its rich variety⛅️

✨ ‘An appropriately leisurely but learned exploration of the day of rest in all its quiet glories’ Stuart Maconie

✨ ‘As light-hearted social history, it slips down as easily as the first pint of a Sunday lunchtime, and it is packed with pub quiz winning nuggets of information’ Times Literary Supplement

✨ ‘This engaging and quirky piece of social history is the perfect read between a Sunday roast and a post-prandial snooze’ Country Life

✨ ‘This book is his most delightful yet’ Peter Ross

✨ ‘Daniel Gray’s glorious sentences light up Sunday’s stained-glass window so that it shines like a lighthouse across the rest of the week’ Ian McMillan

Told through Sundays whiled away in places from the Hebrides to Hyde Park – via Sunderland, Scarborough, the Peak District and beyond – Gray’s latest book is a charming journey in time and place.

21/05/2026

LUCKY BREAK by Charlotte Crosby is the unmissable debut novel from one of the nation’s favourite TV stars and it’s now available to read in paperback💖

Can one summer change your life?

They’ve never met before but the next eight weeks together will change everything.
Angelica is looking for love – but in all the wrong places.
Madison is looking for fun – but how far will she go?
Damon is looking for wealth – but some things, money can’t buy.
Samantha is looking for fame – but at what price?
On screen it’s wild, but the real stories happen off-camera…

21/05/2026

Happy publication day to THE FATE OF THE WORLD by Bill McGuire!

If you read just one book on the climate crisis, make it this one.

The Fate of the World is a 4.6-billion-year history of the Earth, putting contemporary global heating in the context of geological epochs and periods to reveal what past climate change can tell us about our planet’s future. It highlights with unflinching realism how what’s happening now compares with what happened in deep time — and explains the devastating impacts that are now more likely than not.

🔥 ‘Read it and weep, or read it and win’ Chris Packham

❄️ ‘The human story is the story of the Earth, and the next chapter will be written by us’ Tony Juniper CBE

🔥 ‘If you think the climate crisis is peripheral to your life, I dare you to read this book.’ Mike Berners-Lee

❄️ ‘Bill McGuire is an authoritative and mightily inspiring contributor... making The Fate of the World an indispensable primer for our troubled times’ Jonathon Porritt‘

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