Now that September is drawing to a close I have been looking at the books due to be published in October, starting with The Edge of Normal by Carla Norton. This one looks seriously scary perfect for a cold evening in front of the fire.

10 Oct 2013
Blurb
Reeve LeClaire was abducted when she was twelve years old and held in captivity for four years. Now, in her twenties, she has a fragile stability but with the help of her psychiatrist, she has started to build a life of independence. But she will never shake off the terror and memory of the monster she believes is behind bars. When Tilly Cavanaugh is rescued from a basement having suffered a similar experience, her parents call Reeve to ask for her help in helping their daughter rediscover a ‘normal’ life. But it is only when two other girls go missing that the police confirm the link and that there is a serial abductor in their midst. Reeve knows that she alone has the knowledge which will help to find the perpetrator – but can she overcome her demons to discover the truth? Amazon
I really hope Helen Fielding is still able to make me smile with Bridget Jones, Mad About The Boy

10 Oct 2013
Blurb
With her hotly anticipated third instalment, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, Fielding introduces us to a whole new enticing phase of Bridget’s life set in contemporary London, including the challenges of maintaining sex appeal as the years roll by and the nightmare of drunken texting, the skinny jean, the disastrous email cc, total lack of twitter followers, and TVs that need 90 buttons and three remotes to simply turn on. Amazon
Secrets from the past are always intriguing so Postcards From The Past by Marcia Willets looks like a must!

10 Oct 2013
Blurb
Can you ever escape your family ties?
Siblings Billa and Ed share their beautiful, grand old childhood home in rural Cornwall. Their lives are uncomplicated. With family and friends nearby and their free and easy living arrangements, life seems as content as can be.
But when postcards start arriving from a sinister figure they thought belonged well and truly in their pasts, old memories are stirred. Why is he contacting them now? And what has he been hiding all these years?Amazon
I’m looking forward to seeing what Elizabeth Haynes will serve up in her fourth book, Under a Silent Moon but the blurb has meant that this one is on pre-order!

15 Oct 2013
In the crisp early morning hours, the police are called to a suspected murder at a farm outside a small English village. A beautiful young woman has been found dead, blood all over the cottage she lived in. At the same time, police respond to a reported female suicide, where a car has fallen into a local quarry.
As DCI Louisa Smith and her team gather the evidence, they discover a link between these two women, a link which has sealed their dreadful fate one cold night, under a silent moon.
Told in a unique way, using source documents that allow readers to interpret the evidence alongside DCI Louisa Smith and her team, Under a Silent Moon is an unsettling and compulsively readable novel that will keep you gripped until the very last page. Amazon
I am also buying for the non-fiction Inconvenient People by Sarah Wise in paperback as this will go onto my bookshelf so that I can read all about the Victorian Lunatic Asylums.

Gaslight tales of rooftop escapes, men and women snatched in broad daylight, patients shut in coffins, a fanatical cult known as the Abode of Love.
The nineteenth century saw repeated panics about sane individuals being locked away in lunatic asylums. With the rise of the ‘mad-doctor’ profession, English liberty seemed to be threatened by a new generation of medical men willing to incarcerate difficult family members in return for the high fees paid by an unscrupulous spouse or friend.
Sarah Wise uncovers twelve shocking stories, untold for over a century and reveals the darker side of the Victorian upper and middle classes – their sexuality, fears of inherited madness, financial greed and fraudulence – and chillingly evoke the black motives at the heart of the phenomenon of the ‘inconvenient person’.Amazon
To read my review on Bellman & Black by Diane Setterfield, click on the book cover.
Bellman & Black is due to be published on 10 October 2013 by Orion.
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Love the sound of The Edge of Normal, and I can’t believe Haynes has another one out so soon. Only just got Human Remains this week! Enjoy!
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Thank you. I loved Human Remains, I hope you enjoy it. It looks like this one could be the start of a series 🙂
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Some interesting ones there. I’ll be interested in your review of Inconvenient People. And the blurb of The Edge of Normal sounds so like The Never List by Koethi Zan – did you read that one?
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When I read that I thought the title sounded familiar… sure enough it’s on my Amazon WISH list but not purchased. Maybe I need to do a compare and contrast and buy both?
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Well, I thought The Never List was great – so I’ll be interested to see what you think of The Edge of Normal – I’ll wait for your review before deciding whether it goes on the TBR, I think.
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Hmm… seems even more reason why I need both 🙂 thanks for the recommendation…
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Inconvenient People sounds fascinating! Will you be reviewing that one?
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Yes I will – it is on order as a physical book cos it’s non-fiction. I’ve got my fingers crossed for a riveting read 😉
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You sure don’t need to justify your book purchases to me, of all people! (…Said the woman who is trying to figure out how to fit yet another bookcase into her house)
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I’m not allowed another bookcase 😦 but there are some books that deserve more than sitting on my kindle and this is how I justify those purchases to myself 🙂
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Oh, I do hope to enjoy another Bridget Jones book! Thanks for a peek into what is ahead for readers. Enjoy!
Here’s MY WEEKLY SUNDAY/MONDAY UPDATES
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I’m looking forward to Bridget Jones, although having carefully avoided a spoiler when composing my post I read it by accident today duh…. 😦
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