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By Wendy Holden 22:05 30 Nov 2023, updated 22:05 30 Nov 2023

Everybody Knows

by Jordan Harper (Faber & Faber £8.99, 416pp)

I devoured this Hollywood thriller, whose heroine Mae is in ‘black bag’ PR. She cleans up bad celebrity stories, and boy are they terrible. Teen actor deaths, bent politicians, sex, drugs, murder. Mae never judges — until someone she loves is killed. I turned the pages so fast my hands were a blur.

Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper (Faber & Faber £8.99, 416pp)

My Husband

by Maud Ventura (Hutchinson Heinemann £16.99, 272pp)

You've got to love a novel about posh French people. The unnamed heroine is obsessed with her alpha-male husband. She even has affairs to attract his attention. But there’s something not quite right about him: what’s going on? This glamorous, suspenseful, sexy page-turner is full of super-chic Parisian lifestyle detail.

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by Michiko Aoyama (Doubleday £12.99, 256pp)

It’s been a rotten year, so spark joy with this. Each character in these linked short stories has a problem. A young shop assistant feels imprisoned in her job: a shy, workless man is stuck at home with his mother; the career of a highflying editor is ruined by parenthood — but their local librarian has lifechanging suggestions

My Husband by Maud Ventura (Hutchinson Heinemann £16.99, 272pp)

What You Are Looking For is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama (Doubleday £12.99, 256pp)