Cuckoo in the Nest by Fran Hill @FranHill123 @Legend_Times #CuckoointheNest #FranHill #TheClqrt #BookReview #BookBlog #RecommendedReads

Legend Press 26th April 2023 Book Description It's the heatwave summer of 1976 and 14-year-old would-be poet Jackie is newly fostered by the Walls. She desperately needs stability, but their insecure, jealous teenage daughter isn't happy about the cuckoo in the nest and sets about ousting her. When her attempts to do so lead to…

I’m Sorry You Feel That Way by Rebecca Wait @AnaBooks @QuercusBooks @riverrunbooks #ImSorryYouFeelThatWay #RebeccaWait #BookReview #TheClqrt #FictionBooks #BookBlog

Riverrun Books March 23 (Paperback) Book Description For Alice and Hanna, saint and sinner, growing up is a trial. There is their mother, who takes a divide and conquer approach to child-rearing, and their father, who takes an absent one. There is also their older brother Michael, whose disapproval is a force to be reckoned…

The List by Yomi Adegoke @yomiadegoke @NaomiMantin @4thEstateBooks #TheList #YomiAdegoke #BookReview #TheClqrt #BookBlogger #FictionReads

4th Estate Books 20th July 2023 Book Description Ola Olajide, a high profile journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is marrying the love of her life in one month's time. Young, beautiful, successful, she and her fiance are the 'couple goals' of their social networks and seem to have it all. That is, until one morning, when…

No Place to Hide by J S Monroe @AriesFiction @HoZ_Books @soph_ransompr #NoPlaceToHide #JSMonroe #BookReview #BookBlog #TheClqrt #BookRecommendation

Head of Zeus April 2023 Book Description You might be paranoid, but that doesn't mean they're not watching you. Adam lives a picture-perfect life: happy marriage, two young children, and a flourishing career as a doctor. But Adam also lives with a secret. Hospital CCTV, strangers My Thoughts Thank you to the team at Head…

Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson @VikingBooksUk @CalebANelson #OpenWater #CalebAzumahNelson #BookReview #TheClqrt #OwnVoices

Viking Books Book Description Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong, both are now artists - he a photographer, she a dancer - trying to make their mark in a city that by turns celebrates and…

Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo @Carmellalowkis @vintagebooks #Glory #NoVioletBulawayo #TheClqrt #BookReview #BookBlog

Vintage Books March 2022 Book Description An energy burst, an exhilarating joyride and an animal nation trapped in a cycle as old as time. Narrated by a vivid chorus of animal voices that unveils the tyranny and ruthlessness required to uphold absolute power, Glory is the tale of an uprising and a country's implosion. And…

Ithaca by Claire North @ClaireNorth42 @orbitbooks @LittleBrownUK #Ithaca #TheClqrt #ClaireNorth #GreekMythology #BookReview #BookBlog

Orbit Books September 2022 Book Description Seventeen years ago, King Odysseus sailed to war with Troy, taking with him every man of fighting age from the isle of Ithaca. None of them has returned, and the women of Ithaca have been left behind to run the kingdom. Penelope was barely into womanhood when she wed…

Oh, Sister by Jodie Chapman @jodiechapman @Ells85 @MichaelJBooks #OhSister #JodieChapman #BookReview #TheClqrt #RecommendedReads #AprilBooks

Michael Joseph Books April 2023 Book Description Three women. Three lives. One chance to find themselves. Jen. My body is not my own. Others make life and death decisions on my behalf. Isobel. My place is to be secondary to the man in my life. Zelda. If I break the rules I will be sorry.…

Go As A River by Shelley Read @alisonbarrow #recommendedreads @DoubleDayUk #GoAsARiver #ShelleyRead #TheClqrt #BookReview #PublicationDay #BookBlog

Doubleday Books April 13th 2023 Book Description Nested in the foothills of the Elk Mountains and surrounded by sprawling forests, wandering bears and porcupine, the Gunnison River rushes by the tiny town of Iola. On a cool autumn morning, seventeen year old Victoria Nash heads into her village pulling a rickety wagon filled with late-season…

Atalanta by Jennifer Saint @jennysaint @Wildfirebks @headlinepg @bookywookydooda #Atalanta #JenniferSaint #BookReview #GreekMythology #TheClqrt #BookRecommendation

Wildfire Books April 13th 2023 Book Description Exposed on a mountainside, the defenceless infant Atalanta is left to the mercy of a passing mother bear and raised alongside her cubs under the protective eye of the goddess Artemis. Swearing that she will prove her worth alongside the famed heroes of Greece, Atalanta leaves her forest…