Six Brilliant New Books to Read Now
Six books to add to your to-read list
Farewell to Eden
Sebastian Faulks
A soldier recently returned from the beaches of Normandy arrives in Palestine on a peace-keeping mission in the final days of the British Mandate in this masterful new novel from the author of Birdsong.
Mestra
Madeline Miller
If you loved The Song of Achilles, don’t miss Madeline Miller’s new short story inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses – featuring a cursed king and his gifted daughter.
The Witch
Freida McFadden
The best-selling author of The Housemaid returns. When Julia Barlow loses her job and her apartment, she returns to her family’s 17th-century estate, where the house’s dark history soon starts to unravel her.
The Heights
Ian Rankin
Ian Rankin’s first standalone thriller in 20 years is set in the secretive and opulent world of London’s super-rich, whose gilded lives come under investigation following the murder of a night concierge.
Royal Witch
Philippa Gregory
The queen of historical fiction is back, this time to tell the story of Eleanor Cobham – whose ambition to rule her own destiny carried her further than any woman before her had dared.
A Court of Splintered Harmony
Sarah J Maas
Romantasy fans rejoice – Sarah J Maas’s genre-defining A Court of Thorns and Roses series continues this October, as The Night Court must unite to face a new deadly threat.