Great reads

Zoe West shares her favourite picks for the week

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House of Splinters by Laura Purcell (£16.99, HB, Bloomsbury) Thrilled by her new life as lady of the manor, Belinda Bainbridge moves her family to her husband's remote ancestral home. But the house is not all it seems, plagued by financial issues and whispers of a mysterious death. As her young son becomes fixated on eerie wooden figures called 'silent companions', and her lively brother-in-law shares a very different account of the family's history, Belinda begins to question everything. Are her children safe here?