A small community in Bristol, Melville Heights, is the very epitome of British village life. Although it is part of a larger metropolitan area it feels like a small enclave where everyone knows everyone else. It’s a well to do neighborhood with lawyers and doctors and more recently the elite […]
When you are following a smash hit debut novel it could be a bit daunting for a new author. I loved Nijkamp’s first book (This is Where it Ends) and I must admit that I was a bit nervous picking up this one. How could it possibly compare with the […]
Something a little bit different this time. The new book by Tom Winter is a sweet story and one that strikes a chord especially with the current focus on mental illness. Alice and Ben have a chance meeting in Grosvenor Square in London and don’t realise that the encounter will […]
Tracy Chevalier’s new book is the latest in the Hogarth Shakespeare series of modern day retellings of classic Shakespeare plays. Telling the story of Othello in a more contemporary setting, New Boy was always going to be a bit edgier than some of the others that have preceded it. It […]
I’ve always been attracted to the idea of the large extended Italian family. That idealised Dolmio advert group of people sitting down around a huge table to noisily eat pasta and share their lives. Maggie finds herself joining that dynamic when she marries widower Nico. Life on the council estate […]
It always makes me think twice about a book when I see that the title on Amazon feels like it has to try to convince you to read the book. In this case it is: The Sister: A psychological thriller with a brilliant twist you won’t see coming Cast aside […]
One of the books that I was most excited by earlier this year was “The Girl in the Ice” which was the debut detective novel from Robert Bryndza and the first book in the Detective Erika Foster series. While you can read The Night Stalker as a stand-alone story I […]
Honestly I chose this book because I loved the cover and I’ve always been a bit of a True Crime buff. It turns out to be a pretty amazing coming of age book and a fantastic debut novel by author Alison Umminger. It would be quite easy to dismiss it […]
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 […]
UK Publication Date: 5 May 2016. 400 pages. If you are looking for a gripping suspenseful read that is perfect for the side of the pool this summer then look no further than The Swimming Pool. As the school holidays are about to begin teacher Natalie notices that the local […]
UK Publishing Date: 25 Feb 2016. 400 pages. “Hello. I hope somebody is listening…” It had been a pretty poor week for YA books for me or at least it was until I picked up Radio Silence by Alice Oseman. It left me grinning like the Cheshire Cat. The book […]
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