Here are our recommendations – and yours – of what to enjoy reading this fortnight

The past 12 months have seen some fabulous releases. Prima ’s books editor Nina Pottell looks back at her favourites and the ones you may have missed…

These Spectred Isles

by Ross Montgomery(£16.99, HB, Penguin) Cornwall, 1910. Convinced that Halley’s comet will bring about the apocalypse, the pompous Viscount of Tithe Hall seals his home off from the outside world – on

The lives of Clara and Nancy are worlds apart – but is it time for them to finally live out their dream?

Bluemoose Books won this year’s Small Press Northern Publisher of the year award at the British Book Awards, and several of the company’s titles have won or been shortlisted for major literary awards,