Struggling to find a Spring read? Take our quiz and find your new favourite book!
Looking for your next 5-star March release? We’ve got you covered! Complete the quiz below and note down your most used letters. Then check which book we recommend below!
What genre do you like best?
A - Thriller
B - Domestic thriller
C - Historical fiction
D - Romance
E - Non fictionWhich animal is your favourite?
A - Bird
B - Cat
C - Dog
D - Horse
E - LionWhat’s your favourite colour?
A - Black
B - Blue
C - Gold
D - Pink
E - OrangeWhich of these characters sounds the most intriguing?
A - A doctor with a secret
B - Sisters who would do anything for one another
C - A world famous opera singer
D - A cowboy looking for love
E - A woman questioning her relationshipWhich of these reviews intrigues you the most?
A - “Unique and compelling”
B - “I loved this twisty novel”
C - “An extraordinary, vivid, and skilful re-imagining of a modern Greek legend
D - “Opposites attract with truly combustible chemistry”
E - “Shattering, riveting and impossible to put down”
Ready for your new favourite read?
Mostly A’s- We recommend Moral Injuries by Christie Watson
This twisty medical thriller follows best friends with a secret. Will their friendship survive when the past seems to be repeating itself?
You're trained to save the lives of others. How far would you go to protect your own?
Ruthlessly ambitious Olivia, anxious perfectionist Laura and free-spirited risk-taker Anjali couldn't be more different. Yet their friendship, which began on the first day of medical school, has kept them inseparable for twenty-five years. As wild all-nighters and exam pressures gave way to the struggles and joys of new motherhood and intense jobs, their bond remained unbreakable. Years ago they promised that nothing would come between them and that they'd do anything for one another, including burying one night they have never spoken about: a drug-fuelled university party that forced them to make a deadly choice that could still destroy them.
When an eerily similar tragedy strikes involving their teenage children, everything the three women have built threatens to shatter around them. And they are left asking: just how far can you stretch a friendship before it snaps?
Mostly B’s- We recommend the Wrong Sister by Claire Douglas
This domestic thriller follows sisters when a tragedy threatens to rock their lives.
You’ve known her all your life…Or have you?
Tasha and her older sister Alice might look alike, but they couldn’t be more different.Tasha’s married with two children and still living in her home town near Bristol, while Alice is a high-flying scientist travelling the world with her equally successful husband. But each would trust the other with their life.
So when Tasha and husband Aaron want a break and Alice offers to stay in their home with the kids, Tasha knows they’re in safe hands. But she couldn’t be more wrong.
The call from home is unexpected: Alice and her husband Kyle have been attacked. Alice is in intensive care. Kyle is dead. Rushing to Alice’s bedside, Tasha finds the police trying to piece events together. She can’t think why anyone would attack her sister.
Then the note arrives, addressed to Tasha:
It was supposed to be you . . .
Mostly C’s- We recommend Diva by Daisy Goodwin
This historical fiction follows a world famous opera star through heartbreak, love and loss. Check out the cards!
In the glittering and ruthlessly competitive world of opera, Maria Callas is known simply as la divina: the divine one. With her glorious voice, instinctive flair for the dramatic and striking beauty, she's the toast of the grandest opera houses in the world. Yet her fame has been hard won: raised in Nazi-occupied Greece by a mother who mercilessly exploited her, Maria learned early in life how to protect herself.
When she meets the fabulously rich shipping magnate, Aristotle Onassis, her isolation melts away. For the first time in her life, she believes she's found a man who sees the woman rather than the legendary soprano. Desperately in love, Onassis introduces her to a life of unbelievable luxury, mixing with celebrities like Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.
And then, suddenly, it's over. The international press announce that Onassis will marry the most famous woman in the world, former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, leaving Maria to pick up the pieces.
In this remarkable novel, Daisy Goodwin brings to life a woman whose extraordinary talent, unremitting drive and natural chic made her a legend. But it was only in confronting the heartbreak of losing the man she loved that Maria Callas found her true voice.
Mostly D’s - We recommend Swift and Saddled by Lyla Sage
This cowboy romance is full of sizzling tension, opposite attracts and a swoonworthy romance. Check out the cards here!
She's the city girl who refuses to be saddled with a man. He's the cowboy who wants her anyway.
The last thing Ada Hart needs is a man to take care of her. Not anymore. After failing out of her interior design program and the disaster that was her short-lived marriage, Ada clawed her way up from her rock bottom. Now, the only person she trusts is herself, and that has gotten her further than ever before. She has her own business, and one of the largest ranches in Wyoming just hired her for the most important project of her career.
When Ada arrives in Meadowlark, she finds herself in a dive bar where she can't seem to shake the eyes of a handsome cowboy. When she leads him to the back of the bar, he leaves her with a kiss that most people can only fantasize about. She almost regrets that she'll never see him again...except it turns out he's her new boss.
Weston Ryder is a happy guy. Even happier now that the mystery woman from the bar is the interior designer for his dream project on his family's ranch. He feels like he hit the jackpot. Too bad she wants absolutely nothing to do with him outside of work. Ada is convinced the pull she feels toward Wes will go away, but Wes can't stop thinking about her. Even though walls are coming down around Rebel Blue, Ada's walls are firmly in place.
Can they make it through this project without giving in? Or will they both put their dreams on the line for a chance at love?
Mostly E’s- we recommend The Chain by Chimene Suleyman
This powerful memoir discusses misogyny and women supporting women.
In January 2017, Chimene Suleyman was on her way to an abortion clinic in Queens, New York with her boyfriend, the father of her nascent child. It was the last day they would spend together. In an extraordinary sequence of events, Chimene was to discover the truth of her boyfriend's life: that she and many other women had been subtly, patiently and painfully betrayed.
In this spellbinding memoir, she exposes one man's control over many women and the trauma he left behind, and celebrates the sisterhood that formed in his wake despite - and in spite of - him. Exploring how women are duped every day by individuals, she interrogates how society itself continually allows this to happen. She demonstrates that, no matter how intelligent, educated or self-aware they might be, over time a woman can be played into performing the age-old role of giver and nurturer: self-sacrificing and subordinate.
Both a devastating personal testimony and a searing indictment of persistent misogyny, The Chain is a book for any woman who has questioned her relationship and buried her doubts, for any woman who can't quite identify the source of her unease and for any woman who has been sheltered by the fierce protection of her female friends.