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Out Today: Legends and Lattes Graphic novel

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The graphic novel version of Legends and Lattes is out in the UK today. I will admit that I didn’t know that this was a think until the start of the month, but now I know it is – I want it! I’m not always the most visual reader (if that makes sense) so I’m excited to see what it looks like in this format. I’ve really enjoyed the Legends and Lattes books as you may remember and this is actually the second Travis Baldree release in as many weeks – last week we had Tales from the Territory, which is a collection of five short stories in the world and which I also need to get my hands on, but as it’s hardcover only at the moment that may not be as soon as I can get my hands on the graphic novel.

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Series I Love Redux: Thursday Next

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The final Thursday Next book is finally out in the wild! It’s twenty five years since The Eyre Affair brought Thursday into the literary world – and thirteen years since she burst into my life and it’s been a long, long wait to see what the last chapter of Thursday’s story has in store – because book seven was already out by the time I started the series. I both can’t wait to read it and have a sense of trepidation about reading it in case it doesn’t live up to my hopes. I pre-ordered my copy more than a year ago – and hopefully it will have turned up by the time you read this. Anyway – if you’re still waiting for your copy do go back and read my original posts about the series.

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Out this Week: Clover Lake book 3

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Take A Chance, Sasha Sinclair has filmmaker Sasha trying to make the documentary film her late parents dreamed of – about the life of Alice Bishop. Alice’s descendant Margot doesn’t want to be making the film, even though her family’s businesses really need the boost it could give them, but as she spends more time with Sasha… I know it’s the first of the month today and so it probably should be the stats post, but given that the first in this series, Dream On, Ramona Riley, was BotW back in June when I mentioned that a third book was on the way, it’s only fair that I circle back around today and say that this came out on Tuesday. I’m looking forward to reading this when I can get my hands on it – maybe this is the excuse I need to head to a romance bookshop or Gay’s the Word in the near future?

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Out Today: We Solve Murders sequel

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Cover of We Chase Shadows

Happy Thursday everyone and today it’s the release day for what I suspect is goig to be one of the biggest sellers of the autumn releases this year: Richard Osman’s follow-up to We Solve Murders, We Chase Shadows. According to the blue Steve, Rosie and Amy are back. There’s a body on the steps of an Italian Villa and finding the killer will see them in Italy, Palm Springs and Barcelona. It’s going to be absolutely everywhere in the shops and is going to be my airport purchase the next time I go somewhere because I really enjoyed the action adventure fun of the first book and I’m interested to see what Osman does next with the characters.

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Out This Week: Philippa Flynn’s Year of Panic and Piracy

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We’re in September and we’ve started to get the first of the autumn releases so I actually had some choices for my new book pick this week but I’ve suddenly been seeing this everywhere and although I can’t quite work out why it sounds like a lot of fun and so I’ve picked it for this week. According to the blurb, history professor Philippa ups sticks to the seaside house she inherited from her grandmother after life gives her a wake up call in the form of a sinkhole. Her grandmother was a writer of romance novels and she’s going to be sharing the house with a reclusive writer who also turns out to have been a romance novel cover model. I’m not eve sure I need to write any more about the plot because I think you can already tell why I picked this one. I just hope it lives up to the promise of the blurb when I read it!

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New Noodle shop mystery

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You may remember that in my haul from Red Lion Books back in May was a Noodle Shop mystery – number 12, Crime Rangoon. Well the next book in the series is out this week – it’s called And Then There Were Bun. this one has a murder in the aftermath of a surprise party for Lana that sees her boyfriend in the frame as the main suspect. As I said back in May, these are har to get hold of in the UK – the Kindle prices are too rich for my blood and the paperbacks only used to turn up if you’ve got somewhere that’s importing some paperbacks from the US – and we all know what’s going on with Mass Markets at the moment. But still, the cover is pretty, I know some of you reading this are in the States and so here I am.

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Out today: Hot Type

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It’s not often that I do a non-fiction book for this post but I was really glad when this popped up on the new release lists because not only is it right up my street but I’d been struggling to find anything on the fiction lists for this week that I wanted to write about! Anyway, Hot Type is the story of the Linotype machine, which was the invention that replaced Gutenberg’s moveable type. It was at least three times faster than hand setting type for printing and led to the boom in newspaper, magazine and periodical publishing in the late 19th century. The blurb for Jeff Jarvis’s book promises the stories of the characters that were involved – from the inventors, to the media moguls, the machine operators and the journalists. My book backlog is large as you know, but I’m putting this on the acquisitions list!

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Out This Week: Meg Langslow 39

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It’s the first week of August which apparently means that it’s new Meg Langslow day – and this time it’s book 39 with the amazing punny title of Probably Caws. In great news for long-time fans, this one sees Meg back at some blacksmithing when she’s called in to help with a huge influx of horses at Ragnar’s estate after a horse rescue organisation lost its premises and of course murder ensues. I am currently two books behind the latest in the series because I am trying to pace myself and be sensible, but I do find Ragnar’s menage hilarious so who knows if that resolution will hold!

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Out This Week: Magic and Mystery series

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This is another series of Amazon short stories/novellas from different authors centered around a theme and this time it’s fantasy authors turning to crime, which sound exactly up my street. There are seven authors in the series most of which I haven’t read before so I’m hoping that I will discover some new people to try because the two that I have read are Travis Baldree (Legends and Lattes) and Heather Fawcett (Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter) who I have very much enjoyed. As always with these, they’re free if you have Kindle Unlimited or £1.99 each if you’re not. I will endeavour to report back if/when I read them.

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Out This Week: Third Novel Detectives

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The third in Ellie Alexander’s Novel Detectives series came out on Tuesday so having already mentioned Glow Job which was out on Monday in yesterday’s post I thought I’d mention this one today. As you may remember this is the continuation series that has spun off Alexander’s earlier and completed Secret Bookcase series featuring the same main character and her new detective agency. This third in the new series has a reclusive heiress who has disappeared from her mansion and Annie and Fletcher are called in to investigate. I love a fancy house mystery so I’m optimistic for this one, although the murder rate around Redwood Grove where this series is based is frankly alarming at this point!