March is here, and we couldn’t be happier to see that the sun has come out. And we’re hoping it’s here to stay.
So while we’ll be spending more time outdoors, that doesn’t mean that we won’t have time to get some reading in.
Here are seven books to sink your teeth into this March!
All Them Dogs – Djamel White
Things are different since Tony Ward landed back in town.
After five years abroad, when the opportunity arises to work side by side with Darren ‘Flute’ Walsh, a top enforcer of notorious crime boss Angus Lavelle, it feels like a no brainer.
With retribution from his past actions always close, the protection offered by Flute is crucial. But how safe is Tony when a mutual attraction starts to complicate matters?
Out 26th March
Hooked – Asako Yuzuki, Polly Barton
Eriko’s life appears perfect – devoted parents, spotless apartment and a job in the seafood division of one of Japan’s largest trading companies. Her latest project, to reintroduce the controversial Nile perch fish into the Japanese market, is characteristically ambitious. But beneath her flawless surface she is wracked by loneliness.
Eriko becomes fascinated with a popular blog written by a housewife, Shoko. Shoko’s posts about eating convenience store food and her untidy home are the opposite of the typical Japanese housewife’s manicured lifestyle. When Eriko tracks Shoko down at her favourite restaurant and befriends her, Shoko is at first charmed by her new companion.
But as Eriko’s obsession with Shoko deepens, her increasingly possessive behaviour starts to raise suspicion. As Eriko’s carefully laid plans begin to unravel, how far will she go to hold on to the best friend that she’s ever had?
Out 12th March
This Story Might Save Your Life – Tiffany Crum
Benny and Joy are best friends and co-hosts of a globally successful ‘comedy survival’ podcast, gleefully finding life-affirming humour in near-death experiences.
Inspired by Joy’s own experience of narcolepsy, they ponder what they would do in life-altering situations. Then Joy and her husband Xander (also the duo’s shrewd business manager) go missing, leaving behind nothing but an empty house and shattered glass.
Before long, Benny becomes the main suspect in this missing persons case and the media storm is relentless. To clear his name, he must dig up secrets that even their most devoted podcast fans would never guess… Will he be able to solve their own survival story? This is a book about love and friendship, power and money and deeply complex relationships.
Out 10th March
The Perfect Match – Adiba Jaigirdar
An enemies-to-lovers and angsty queer Bend it like Beckham meets Cross the Line, jampacked with quirky side characters who cannot help but interfere in their feuding coaches’ lives. Dina is done.
She’s burnt out after years in corporate London and is now working in her family’s struggling Bangladeshi restaurant. The last thing she expects is to be roped into coaching a football team of disadvantaged amateur players – or to say yes. Maya is back. She could have had a brilliant career, but it all went…well, wrong.
Now she’s back home, back in her childhood bedroom. Her only escape is agreeing to coach her old secondary school’s team. It doesn’t take long for them to bump into each other again and for as long as anyone can remember, Dina and Maya were rivals. But will the very game that tore them apart bring them back together?
Out 19th March
Starside – Alex Aster
Hundreds of years ago, a brutal war split a land in two. Starside is the realm of magic and immortals—the descendants of the gods, living in a power-rich paradise. Stormside is where mortals fight for scraps of that magic.
Every fifty years, the gates between them open, and fifty challengers are allowed to journey across Starside on a deadly quest to access a pool of magic that can heal, grant wealth, or extend life.
Everyone has their reasons for entering, but Aris has only vengeance. As a child, a goddess set fire to her village, killing her family. Aris isn’t after the gods’ magic—she’s going to kill them.
Out 31st March
The Truth About Ruby Cooper – Liz Nugent
Ruby Cooper and her sister, Erin, live an idyllic life in their close-knit church community in Boston. But when Ruby is sixteen, she is involved in an incident that causes her family’s world to implode.
Across decades, the fallout leaves a wake of destruction behind Ruby in Dublin and Erin in Boston.
Not that Ruby wants to think about the past. But it can’t stay a secret forever.
Out 12th March
The Last Witch on the Knock – Aimée MacDonald
In need of a fresh start, Thomasin leaves her toxic boyfriend, absent father and empty friendships to spend the summer in the Scottish Highlands with her eccentric Aunt Agnes and stern little cousin, Nina. But amidst the sprawling fields and ragged hills thrums a secret that has cursed the land for generations.
Three hundred years earlier, Kate McNiven labours in The Big House by the Knock hill, wishing for a brighter future far away from the lecherous clutches of her master, the Laird.
When she is exiled as a witch for refusing to succumb to his advances, Kate finds the escape she so desperately seeks in Thomasin, whose vulnerable body becomes her unwilling host.
Out 12th March