With Christmas just around the corner, it is time to start looking for those perfect Christmas gifts. A book is always a winner. Here are four titles due for release in December. Keep an eye out for these, and add them to your Christmas shopping list.
I am especially looking forward to Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims, and I hope that I will be able to review this one before Christmas. Keep an eye on the blog, or sign up to my mailing list to receive a notification when a new review is posted.
The Magpie Society by Zoe Sugg and Amy McCulloch
Penguin Random House
Illumen Hall is a boarding school of tradition and achievement. But tragedy strikes when the body of a girl, a student, is discovered-on her back is an elaborate tattoo of a magpie.
For new student Audrey, it is just another strange and unsettling thing about her new surroundings. And for her roommate Ivy, well, she’s just annoyed she has to share with the new girl from America.
As an unlikely friendship develops, the two are drawn deeper into the mystery of this strange and terrible murder. They will discover that something dangerous is at the heart of their school.
Welcome to The Magpie Society.
Dark Tides by Philippa Gregory
Jonathan Ball Publicity
Two unexpected visitors arrive at a shabby warehouse on the south side of the River Thames. The first is a wealthy man hoping to find the lover he deserted twenty-one years before. James Avery has everything to offer, including the favour of the newly restored King Charles II, and he believes that the warehouse’s poor owner Alinor has the one thing his money cannot buy –his son and heir. The second visitor is a beautiful widow from Venice in deepest mourning. She claims Alinor as her mother-in-law and has come to tell Alinor that her son Rob has drowned in the dark tides of the Venice lagoon. Alinor writes to her brother Ned, and tells him that she knows, without doubt, that her son is alive and the widow is an imposter.
The Awakening by Nora Roberts
Jonathan Ball Publicity
Breen Kelly had always been a rule follower. So, when her father left when she was twelve years old, promising to return, she waited. Now, more than a decade later, she’s working at a job she hates and is tired of the life that playing by the rules has dealt her. It’s time to make a change. Breen makes a leap into the unknown with a summer trip to Ireland, her father’s homeland. Little does she know how much of a leap until a walk in the woods leads her through a portal into another world, Talamh, where Breen will find magic, family and a destiny she could never have dreamed of.
Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims
Jonathan Ball Publicity
A dinner party is held in the penthouse of a multimillion-pound development. All the guests are strangers even to their host, the billionaire owner of the building. None of them know why they were selected to receive his invitation. Whether privileged or deprived, they share only one thing in common, they’ve all experienced a shocking disturbance within the building’s walls. By the end of the night, their host is dead, and none of the guests will say what happened. His death has remained one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, until now. But are you ready for their stories?
Leave a comment below to let me know if any of these ended up in your Christmas stocking and if you enjoyed it. Happy Reading!
I’m really curious about Thirteen Storeys! Sounds like a good one.
-lauren
Hey Lauren, I am right there with you. I cannot wait to get my hands on a copy.