Her Wicked Roots by Tanya Pell

Her Wicked Roots by Tanya PellIn this queer retelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne classic gothic story, Rappaccinis Daughter, a young woman is lured to a lush estate owned by a botanist who might be hiding dark secrets. Cordelia Beecher is on the run. In search of her missing brother Edward, she has fled the oppressive charity school she was raised in, desperate to find the only family she knows. Using clues from his past letters, she sets off for the sleepy town of Farrow but everyone

This is the power of music

Tails and the whole squad for a jam-packed sticker adventure

but as Antoinette Savill says in her Introduction ‘Simple homely comforts are always needed but treats and indulgences can also have a place in our weekly menus

With heartbreaking honesty

Nigel loves swimming

EVAN RYDER: A SINGULAR HERO FOR OUR TIME

sunny and tragic

and getting up close to comical puffins on a boat trip from Mull or Iona to Staffa

Hard work and rural peace seem to make this a happy bachelor life

Catch up on the rest of the series set in the charming Tokyo cafe Funiculi Funicula

What happens next is entirely everyone else's fault

noir and a deliciously ironic sense of humour’ Vaseem Khan     Henri Koskinen