The Place of Shells Paula Sutton Renegade Books FFJ|FFS Hardback 2025 and relationships from a charismatic

and relationships from a charismatic tortoiseshell cat who interprets his guests' astrological chart

A reporter embarks on an investigation of a string of unconnected suicides-which then leads into an exploration of the phenomenon of suicide itself-in this elegant existential novel

Those dark memories could hold the key to the mystery the friends now find themselves in - and whether they will survive until morning

Helen has already learned some hard truths about her city

an outsider like her grandmother

The Place of Shells Paula Sutton Renegade Books FFJ|FFS Hardback 2025 and relationships from a charismaticIn the summer of 2020, as Germany slowly emerges from lockdown, a young Japanese woman studying in Gttingen waits at the train station to meet an old friend. Nomiya died a decade earlier in the Tohoku tsunami, but he has suddenly returned without any explanation. The reunited friends share a past that's a world away from the tranquillity of Gttingen. Yet Nomiya's spectral presence destabilises something in the city: mysterious guests appear, eerie