After a run of pretty intense books it was nice to snuggle up this weekend with some pure escapism from Tracy Wolff. Flawed is the fourth book in the Ethan Frost series and while it includes characters that have had their own stories told elsewhere this tale features trust fund […]
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The Affair is the latest book by Amanda Brooke, an author renowned for her “human” stories. This one centres around florist Nina and her family. Newly remarried to Bryn she has been trying to settle him in to family life with her two teenage kids. Liam, at seventeen, is practically […]
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Set in London in the mid-1960s. Theatre land has welcomed American actress Iolanthe Green as the leading lady in a new play at the Galaxy Theatre. As the book opens Lanny has gone missing and a media storm has ensued. She said goodbye to her dresser Anna Treadwell at the […]
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This is the second book in the Fort Worth Wranglers series and continues straight on from Lyric and Lingerie. It could be read as a standalone but you would get more out of the story if you’ve read from the beginning. All of your favourite characters are back but this […]
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Chaos is the latest book from Patricia Cornwell featuring the forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta and the dishevelled detective Pete Marino. This is the twenty fourth novel in the series so if you’ve picked up the book in the first place you are likely to be a fan of our intrepid […]
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Fran wakes up in the night because the baby is crying. She realises that husband Nathan isn’t in bed so she checks on the baby and then goes in search of him. When he’d come in from the pub earlier he had snuggled up with her and they’d had sex […]
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Charlie is stuck in a bit of a rut. She is approaching forty and has little of significance in her life. Losing daughter Amy five years ago in a car accident turned her life upside down. Her relationship with her husband was never the same again and they parted on […]
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Rosie Tipcott has lived in the seaside town of Woolacombe her entire life. She has thought about travelling and leaving her roots but never found a good enough reason to carry it out. She’s happy enough in her little cottage with husband Phil and their two little daughters Leona and […]
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‘Another year and I still don’t like old people. Me? I am 83 years old.’ Hendrik Groen lives in an old people’s home in the Netherlands and this is the diary of his 83rd year. He suffers from a number of age related ailments and has a bladder weakness but […]
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“Wanting it All” is the second book in Barth’s Naked Men series. The naked men in question here are a bunch of old school friends who bare their souls in a syndicated Podcast that has a large following online. I’ll be honest and say that I didn’t actually finish the […]
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This is a new psychological thriller from the author of The Ice Twins. Rachel is blissfully happy. Just married to a handsome older man and beginning to become accustomed to all the trappings of wealth that comes with marriage to a successful City lawyer. David spends the week living in […]
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This was my first book by Liane Moriarty and there were times when I felt like giving up on this weighty tome. It requires quite a considerable injection of your time as it rocks up at a mighty 480 pages. Honestly I only persevered with it because two authors that […]
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Hester leads a solitary life. Living alone with only her little dog for company she always finds herself on the side-lines looking in. She has no real friends and keeps her distance from the others in her adult learning class. Her only real friend was Melissa who lives next door, […]
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Originally published in 2013 this book has just been republished by St Martin’s Press. It was the debut novel from Giovanna Fletcher. Giovanna has her own unique insight into the acting world having graduated from the Rose Bruford acting school. The McFly song “All About You” was written for Giovanna […]
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Like many New Adult books this one begins with a break up. Presley is kicked out of the band that she co-founded because the other members are jealous that all the media and record company attention is on her. When one of these band members is also her boyfriend of […]
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I wasn’t sure what to expect when I read that MaryJanice Davidson had written a romance novel. More famous for her Undead supernatural and paranormal series about vampires this was a fairly new departure for Davidson. It has been over 24 hours since I finished the book – not always […]
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UK Publication Date: 24 May 2016. 274 pages. Up till this point my only experience of Lara Adrian has been through her Midnight Breed series of paranormal romances. “For 100 Days” is a bit of a departure from the world of vampire warriors and we are transported to modern day […]
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UK Publication Date: 21 Apr 2016. 416 pages. Different Class is a follow up story to Gentlemen and Players. Set in a private boys grammar school in Yorkshire called St Oswald’s this is a complex tale of tradition and conflict, of bullying and the struggle to fit in. Unlike Chocolat […]
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UK Publication Date: 10 May 2016. 368 pages. Unrivalled is the latest book from Alyson Noel aimed at a Young Adult audience. Set in the glitzy club world of Hollywood it has a feel of Pretty Little Liars meets Mean Girls. The story centres on three main characters, all wannabees […]
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UK Publication Date: 24 Mar 2016. 400 pages. Considering that I read quite a lot of crime fiction I’ve never actually read a Harlan Coben novel before. I always felt like I should but never actually got round to it. Saying that I started this novel three times before I […]
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