08/06/2026
Oooooh, which would you pick from these two? Very different but I really can't decide. Well, I can, I'll have both! That *is* the joy of a library after all 🥳
Recently acquired Fastbacks so we've loads of copies of these, pop in or you can reserve a copy here:
Gull's Nest 👉https://tinyurl.com/4cc72xfe
Radium 👉https://tinyurl.com/mrx98hpe
Gull's Nest
'Nora Breen arrives inconspicuously in the seaside town of Gore-on-Sea, and takes a room at the Gulls Nest guest house. Supper is at 6 o'clock sharp, and there will be no admittance after 9 - a routine Nora likes, as it reminds her of her former life as a nun. As she settles in, she is careful not to reveal too much about herself to the other guests. Instinct tells her it's better to watch and listen. Because Nora is not here on a whim. She has a disappearance to investigate. Before long, Nora realises that she may not be the only resident hiding something at Gulls Nest. To untangle the web of secrets and deceit, she'll need to do more than just observe. Does she have what it takes to stop a killer?'
Children of Radium
'Joe Dunthorne had always wanted to write about his great-grandfather, Siegfried: an eccentric scientist who invented radioactive toothpaste and a Jewish refugee from the N***s who returned to Germany under cover of the Berlin Olympics to pull off a heist on his own home. The only problem was that Siegfried had already written the book of his life - an unpublished, two-thousand page memoir so dry and rambling that none of his living descendants had managed to read it. And, as it turned out when Joe finally read the manuscript himself, it told a very different story from the one he thought he knew. Thus begins a mystery which stretches across the twentieth century and around the world, from Berlin to Ankara, New York, Glasgow and eventually London - a mystery about the production of something much more sinister than toothpaste.'
