Ooh, yes, the photo worked!
Anyway. Hello!
I was out with my mother yesterday and we went nowhere special, just to the supermarket, which is actually a pretty good place to go if you don't want to spend too much on a book and you're not too bothered about things such as their popularity. As you can see, I didn't get many. Only three! Aren't their covers gorgeous!?
I'll add a closer look on them in the future when I edit back to these posts, but for now, let me just discuss them from to the top downwards, yay!
"Marina" by Carlos Ruiz Zafron.
(Funky name you have there, sir)
A gothic tale for all ages.
In May 1980, fifteen-year-old Oscar Drai vanishes from his boarding school in Barcelona. For seven days and nights, no one knows his whereabouts . . .
His story begins when he meets the mysterious Marina. She takes him to a graveyard where they witness a macabre ritual. On the last Sunday of every month, a coach appears. A woman shrouded in black descends, holding a single red rose. She walks over to a gravestone that bears no name, only the emblem of a black butterfly . . .
When Oscar and Marina follow her, they begin a journey that takes them to the heart of a forgotten, post-war Barcelona. Beneath the streets, a dark secret lies waiting . . .
"The Hourglass Factory" by Lucy Ribchester.
Meet Ebony Diamond: trapeze artist, tiger-tamer, suffragette. Where there is trouble, she is never far away. But now she's the one in trouble, and she's up to her neck in it.
Enter Frankie George: tomboy, cub reporter, chippy upstart. She's determined to make her name on the London Evening Gazette, if only someone will give her a chance.
Then Ebony disappears during a performance at the London Coliseum, and Frankie jumps at then chance to find out what happened. How did Ebony vanish, who was she afraid of, and what goes on behind the doors of the mysterious Hourglass Factory?
From the newsrooms of Fleet Street to the suffragette headquarters, Frankie enters a world of society columnists, corset fetishists and cicus freaks on the trail of a murderous villian with a plot more deadly then anyone could have imagined . . .
"The Miniaturist" by Jessie Burton.
There is nothing that will not be revealed . . .
On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman arrives at a grand house in Amsterdam to begin her new life as the wife of a wealthy merchant Johannes Brandt. Though curiosily distant, he presents her with an extraordinary wedding gift: a cabinet-sized replica of their home. It is to be furnished by an elusive miniaturist, whose tiny creations ring eerily true.
As Nella uncovers the secrets of her new household she realizes the escalating dangers they face. The miniaturist seems to hold their fate in her hands - but does she plan to save them or destroy them?
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