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by Jackie Cameron (Penguin) ISBN: 9781485900153 ‘Baking is my way of sharing happiness,’ says the award-winning chef in her new cookery book, and she knows how to get her message across with delightful twists on familiar recipes, including Amarula crème brûlée. With over 80 recipes accompanied by lots of photographs, the book invites you to start […]

by Emma Cline (Chatto & Windus) ISBN: 9780812998603 For those who know that this is a novel about the Charles Manson murders, don’t be put off reading this book. And, if you can, forget what you know about them, and take this at face value. Even though there has been a huge amount of hype

by Emma Chapman (Picador) ISBN: 9781509816545 Emma Chapman’s second novel, The Last Photograph, tells the backstory of Rook Henderson – an award winning photographer who carries Vietnam and the agony of all that life behind the lens with him. Always. Now he has to add dealing with his wife June’s death to his burden. His son,

by Susan Lewis (Century) ISBN: 9781780891859 What happened to Jessica Leonard? That’s the question that everybody in the book wants answered. The story is set in Kesterly-on-Sea, a small town where people think they know each other only to discover they have skeletons in their closets. It’s a sad story of a family who refuse to

by Janette Mocke (Struik) ISBN: 9781432305598 Have you ever noticed that you can bake gorgeous cakes at any time, but try to bake one the night before your child’s birthday party and then it’s a disaster? You forget the baking powder. The icing melts. It burns. True story, it happens to us every year. We

by M.J. Arlidge (Michael Joseph) ISBN: 9780718183837 Having never read a ‘DI Helen Grace Thriller’ before, I was a little anxious about not being able to follow the storyline. I was right. This book cannot be read as a general “pick-up-and go”. I initially struggled to figure out what was going on, and what had happened