Book Review

Darling by India Knight, paperback £9.99 (published 4th May)

In a sprawling farmhouse in Norfolk, teenage Linda Radlett feels herself destined for greater things. She longs for love, but how will she ever find it? She can’t even get a signal on her mobile phone. Linda’s strict, former rock star father terrifies any potential suitors away, while her bohemian mother, wafting around in silver jewellery, answers Linda’s urgent questions about love with upsettingly vivid allusions to animal husbandry. Eventually Linda does find her way out from the bosom of her deeply eccentric extended family, and she escapes to London. She knows she doesn’t want to marry ‘a man who looks like a pudding’, as her good and dull sister Louisa has done, and marries the flashy, handsome son of a UKIP peer instead. But this is only the beginning of Linda’s pursuit of love, a journey that will be wilder, more surprising and more complicated than she could ever have imagined. A razor-sharp, laugh-outloud novel that re-imagines the cast of Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love for a modern age.

The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight, paperback £9.99

What if you had a vision that something terrible was going to happen? A train crash, a department store fire, an assassination. What if you could share your vision, and prevent a disaster? In 1966, John Barker, a British psychiatrist working in an outdated British mental hospital, established the Premonitions Bureau to investigate this very idea. He would find a network of curious correspondents, and among them two highly gifted ‘percipients’. Together, they predicted calamities and international incidents with uncanny accuracy. And then, they gave Barker their most disturbing warning: that he was about to die…

Bear and Bird: The Picnic and Other Stories by Jarvis, hardback £9.99.

For Pre-School and Reception age children.

Bear didn’t really like the painting. I mean, look at it. But he liked Bird a lot, and it would remind him of her...

Bear and Bird are best friends. And while they don’t always understand each other, they both agree that all they want is to make the other happy. So, when Bear forgets to pack for a picnic (but pretends that he didn’t), Bird doesn’t let on that she knew all along. And when Bird discovers that Bear has more of a certain talent than she does, Bear finds a touching way to make her feel better. Full of funny mix-ups and comic misunderstandings, as well as genuine warmth and affection, these four stories will gently teach younger children the power of tact, kindness and friendship.

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