‘Colter Shaw is searching for the answer to his father’s final, posthumous riddle. It will lead him to evidence that will topple the secretive espionage company, BlackBridge’– The Final Twist [ About the Book ] Just hours after the harrowing events of The Never Game and The Goodbye Man, Colter Shaw finds himself in San Francisco, where he…
‘I once had a forbidden friend.He was funny and brave, had scabbed knees and grubby shorts,a gleeful grin and fathomless eyes. My co-conspirator and hero.He called himself Emmet.’– Emmet and Me [ About the Book ] Summer 1966. Claire and her brothers are packed off to Granny Connemara when their mother runs away. Granny’s rural…
‘Retired internet slang interspersed with earnest remarks about how the light falls on my face.Compared to the inscrutable advances of younger men, it is a relief’– Luster [ About the Book ] Edie is just trying to survive. She’s messing up in her dead-end admin job in her all-white office, is sleeping with all the…
‘They don’t know this is the beginning, before everything else, and no one imagines death on their doorstep’– In The Dark [ About the Book ] Teruel, north-east Spain, winter, 1937. The civil war is raging, pitting neighbour against neighbour, tearing families apart. Franco’s Nationalist rebels have surrounded the devastated, Republican-held city. The people are…
She thought their life was perfect But it was all built onTHE PERFECT LIE [ About the Book ] He jumped to his death in front of witnesses. Now his wife is charged with murder. Five years ago, Erin Kennedy moved to New York following a family tragedy. She now lives happily with her detective…
‘A sinister story of fear and isolation told with imaginative flair. Mesmerising.’ -Michael RidpathSILENCED [ About the Book ] As a police team is called in to investigate a woman’s suicide at the Hólmsheiði prison outside Reykjavík, to detective Guðgeir Fransson it looks like a tragic but straightforward case. It’s only afterwards that the pieces…
‘Some bonds can never be broken’– The Promise [ About the Book ] One terrible moment changes everything for Irish teenagersKate and David. Brought together during the darkest of times, a spark of hope is ignitedbetween them – a handheld in the darkness, a promise whispered. Neither of them will everforget those moments. It’s another…
‘I want to write storylines that dig deep into a reader’s emotions, with characters that we talk about and relate to as if they were real.‘– Stuart Hobrow It is a pleasure to welcome my guest Stuart Hobrow to Swirl and Thread today. Stuart published his debut novel Happy to Have Nothing in November 2020,…
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION AND A RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK– Because Of You [ About the Book ] Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock . . . midnight. As the old millennium turns into the new, two very different women give birth to two very similar daughters. Hope leaves with a beautiful baby girl.Anna leaves…
‘What happens when a virus is gender specific and 90% of the male population has died?’– The End of Men [ About the Book ] Glasgow 2025Dr Amanda Maclean is called to treat a young man with a mild fever. Within three hours he dies. This is how it begins.The mysterious illness sweeps through the…