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Paperbacks to Look Out For in May 2026: Part One

20 April 2026 / 27 Comments

Lots of paperbacks to look forward to as we head towards what publishers see as the holiday reading season. My first choice might well fall into that category. Emily Adrian’s Seduction Theory sees an apparently perfect marriage between two academics begin to crumble through the long summer vacation. Simone’s made her mark as the star […]

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Books to Look Out For in October 2025

Slim pickings for October’s new fiction with a couple outside my usual literary territory including Harriet Lane’s Other People’s Fun which sees Ruth facing an empty nest and the end of her marriage while enduring a humdrum job. Her tedium is brightened by the reappearance of Sookie, confident, vivacious and keen to be Ruth’s pal