Book review: 'Travel to 1835 London'

If you loved Charlie Macksey’s ‘The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse’ you are going to melt at this beautiful gift book. Perfect for anyone who has ever felt lost in the dark, for those learning to let go, to begin again, or simply to keep going.

Through the moon's phases the fox meets all the emotions life throws at us. Loss and grief, as our nights get darker. Fear, that the light might never return. Hope and joy, as the moon waxes and the light comes back. And finally, the courage to know that, even on the darkest nights of all, we can find the light within us and continue.

With gorgeous colour illustrations throughout, this is a deep heartfelt hug of a book.

Step back into the world of Lucinda Riley’s internationally bestselling Seven Sisters series.

Co-author of the Story of Pa Salt, Harry Whittaker, picks up the story with this epic mystery.

The year is 2009, Kent. Eccentric antiquarian bookseller Orlando Forbes is at his happiest working alongside Star D’Aplièse.

But a mysterious visitor’s request for a copy of A Christmas Carol sets in motion a long-buried literary mystery that the pair cannot resist investigating.

Who is orchestrating the trail of clues from the shadows? What explosive secret is hidden within the pages of the rare first edition?

Travel to 1835, London and the world of writer Eliza Wetherill who finds herself swept up by Charles Dickens.

As Orlando races to piece together the truth hidden within the book’s pages, he and Star realise there are still many of her family’s secrets left to uncover.

Both titles are available at The Bridge Bookshops in Port Erin and Douglas.