FICTION

Geneva by Richard Armitage | 12th Sept | £9.99

Sarah Collier has been lucky: she’s got a glittering scientific career and a husband who loves her more than anything. But now she’s showing signs of early Alzheimer’s, and the only hope for a cure is in a controversial new technology being unveiled in Switzerland. In Geneva, as events turn dangerous and her memory loss worsens, Sarah has to decide who to trust: the people around her – or, despite her symptoms, herself.

The Secrets of Blythswood Sqaure by Sara Sheridan | 26th September | £9.99

Glasgow is a city on the cusp of great social change, but behind the curtains, neighbours are watching, and rumours of improper behaviour spread like wildfire on the respectable Blythswood Square. When Charlotte Nicholl discovers that the fortune she has been bequeathed by her father is tied up in a secret collection of erotic art, she is faced with a terrible dilemma: sell it and risk shaming her family’s good name or lose her home.

Held by Anne Michaels | 26th September | £9.99

1917. John lies on the battlefield in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. 1920. John has returned from war to North Yorkshire – alive, but not still whole. Reunited with Helena, an artist, he reopens his photography business and endeavours to keep on living. But the past erupts insistently into the present, as ghosts begin to surface in his pictures. So begins a narrative that spans four generations, moments of connection and consequence igniting and re-igniting as the century unfolds.

Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk | 26th September | £12.99

In September 1913, Mieczysław Wojnicz, a student suffering from tuberculosis, arrives at Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for Gentlemen, a health resort in what is now western Poland. Every day, its residents gather in the dining room to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur and to discuss the great issues of the day. Meanwhile, disturbing things are beginning to happen in the guesthouse and its surroundings.  A century after the publication of The Magic Mountain, Olga Tokarczuk revisits Thomas Mann territory and lays claim to it, blending horror story, comedy, folklore and feminist parable with brilliant storytelling.

Spring of Love by Celia Dale | 26th September | £9.99

What price would you pay for love? Esther Williams is thirty and single. She has been nowhere, done nothing, loved no one except her recently deceased grandfather. That is, until she meets Raymond Banks and their budding love is soon cemented with a proposal. For the first time ever, she feels truly alive. But marriage to Raymond brings a different kind of order, one of increasing control and possession. An unsettling portrait of love in all its guises, A Spring of Love asks the most sinister question of all – can we ever truly know anyone?

NON- FICTION

Normal Women by Phillipa Gregory | 26th September | £10.99

In this ambitious and ground-breaking book, Gregory tells the story of our nation over 900 years, but for the very first time women – some fifty per cent of the population – are no longer invisible in this history of England, but are at its beating heart. Using research skills honed in her work as one of our foremost historical novelists, she trawled through court records to find highway women, beggars and shepherdesses, through newspapers and diaries to find murderers and brides, housewives and pirates, female husbands and hermits. They are there in the archives – if you look – and they made our history.

Soldiers Don’t Go Mad by Charles Glass | 5th September | £10.99

Soldiers Don’t Go Mad tells for the first time the story of the soldiers and doctors who struggled with the effects of industrial warfare on the psyche. As he investigates the roots of what we now know as PTSD, Glass brings historical bearing to how we must consider war’s ravaging effects on mental health, and the ways in which creative work helps us come to terms with even the darkest of times.

Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials by Marion Gibson | 26th September | £10.99

Professor Marion Gibson uses thirteen significant trials to tell the global history of witchcraft and witch-hunts. Once a tool invented by demonologists to hurt and silence their enemies, witch trials have been twisted and transformed over the course of history and the lines between witch and witch-hunter blurred. For the fortunate, a witch-hunt is just a metaphor, but, as this book makes clear, witches are truly still on trial.

Recognising the Stranger by Isabella Hammad | 26th September | £9.99

Isabella Hammad delivered the Edward W. Said Lecture at Columbia University nine days before 7 October 2023. The text of Hammad’s seminal speech and her afterword written in the early weeks of 2024 together make up a searing appraisal of the war on Palestine during what feels like a turning point in the narrative of human history. Moving and erudite, Hammad writes from within the moment, shedding light on the Palestinian struggle for freedom. Recognising the Stranger is a brilliant melding of literary and cultural analysis.

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