Sunday Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Long Bright River
The Eighties are back!
And now there’s the added environmental kudos... save on a mountain
of plastic bottles by making
your own fizzy water and adding
your own flavours. This comes
with a refillable and recyclable
60-litre gas cylinder and
a reusable, BPA-free bottle.
In sleek navy.
Kim Chakanetsa speaks to two women who specialise in funding female-led startups about why investing in women is the smart choice. Marta Krupinska is Google’s UK Startups chief, Anu Duggal is an innovation guru.
Liz Moore
Hutchinson. Out now
Growing up with their emotionally cold grandmother, two sisters became each other’s world. But as adults in a tough district of Philadelphia, Kacey has succumbed to the opioid epidemic and is living rough and working as a prostitute, while single mum Mickey is in the police. But when a killer targets local sex workers, Mickey risks her job in a bid to find her lost sister. Not only a taut murder mystery, this powerful book is also a portrait of the family ties that bind. With brilliantly drawn characters, especially the complex, brittle narrator Mickey, it’s as gripping as it is moving. DEIRDRE O’BRIEN
Sam, a law student with Bohemian leanings, travels to Paris where he falls in love with older, married Isabelle. Their passionate affair shapes the course of his life in this very atmospheric – if occasionally rather melodramatic – romance.
A stolen girl, an impresario who tries to reanimate the dead and a travelling circus of bizarre sideshows. A feast of Victorian gothic is served with relish in this dark tale, which follows the fortunes of Lily Bell as she battles for her survival.