institutional barriers faced by disabled people, and looks at how organisations and leaders can become more inclusive, to welcome in the millions of disabled people excluded for so long. This is a leadership manual for real change.
everything it evokes, in different times and to different people.
Crime & thriller
Christopher R Smit Wheelchair Bloomsbury, 22nd June, £9.99, pb, 9781501341984 What does the wheelchair symbolise, and to whom? Does it mean freedom, mobility and agency, or isolation, sickness and dependency? In this addition to the Object Lessons series, Smit considers the wheelchair as an object, and
Nell Pattison Hide Avon, 9th December, £7.99, pb, 9780008468026 A Boxing Day hike for a nature club isn’t quite the bonding exercise it’s planned to be. Emily loses her cochlear implant in the snowy dark—can she keep hidden from the killer? Pattison, who describes herself as a “bit Deaf”, is known for her Silent series featuring a Deaf protagonist.
Vikki Pattis Return to
Blackwater House Hodder & Stoughton, 6th January, £20.99, hb, 9781529394542 When Rebecca Bray moves back to her home town in Cornwall, the perfect life she has built for herself begins to crumble. When her stepdaughter Ava goes missing on New Year’s Eve, she knows she must finally confront the ghosts of her past. Features disabled characters, drawing on lived experience.
Victoria Hawthorne The House at Helygen Quercus, 14th April, £20.99, hb, 9781529419153 Helygen House has always been passed down to the eldest male heir. When the current owner Henry Fox is found in the grounds, shot to death, it sparks his pregnant wife Josie to uncover secrets going back centuries, as a parallel narration in the 1800s sets the mystery in motion.
Louise Jensen All for You HQ, 20th January, £8.99, pb, 9780008330163 Lucy and Aidan Walsh and their son Connor all have secrets, but which are worth dying—or killing—for? Who is protecting who, and why? A fast-paced psychological thriller from bestselling author Jensen, who lives with mobility problems following a car crash.
Helen Sedgwick What Doesn’t Break You Point Blank, July, £12.99, pb, 9780861541942 A peculiar drug, taken with fresh blood; rituals, deaths and threats. There is evil lurking in the village of Burrowhead, and DI Georgie Strachan is determined to uproot it and cut it out. The third in the series from Sedgwick, whose chronic illness seeps into her work obliquely.
Carys Jones We Are All Liars Orion, 9th December, £7.99, pb, 9781409196013 Allie, Stacie, Diana, Emily and Gail have been friends forever (the “Fierce Five”), but when five go into the mountains in a snowstorm, and one is found dead, who can be trusted? They know they are all liars. A pacey, innovative thriller told through transcripts, interviews and flashbacks.
Laura Laakso The Doves in the Dining Room Louise Walters Books, £7.99, 4th November, pb, 9781916112360 Someone is trying to sabotage the wedding of Yannia’s friend Jessika, and she is tasked with finding out who, with the help of the groom (a wheelchair-using detective fiction fan), and her hearth-spirit Wisheart. This paranor- mal crime novella
continues on from Laakso’s Barbellion- longlisted third novel Roots of Corruption.
Cookery
Lydia Wilkins; 21andSensory (illus) The Autism Friendly Cookbook Jessica Kingsley, Jan 2023, pb, £12.99, 9781839970825 A specialised cookbook aiming to make the kitchen more accessible, with particular attention to sensory issues affecting autistic people. Written in clear language with easy-to-follow recipes and illustrations, this aims to make cooking fun and make living independently easier.
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