All the Missing Girls is Megan Miranda’s first book aimed at an adult audience. It is a tense psychological thriller with a difference. As it opens it sets the scene with a précis of events. Ten years ago an eighteen year old called Corinne vanished without a trace. Nicolette Farrell […]
In my youth I was a big fan of Mike Gayle. He wrote fantastic stories for and about women and managed to do it without being smug and pretentious. Check out his early books Mr Commitment and My Legendary Girlfriend to see what I mean. Mike was writing Chick Lit […]
In 2013, Laurelin Paige self‐published her first novel. Her husband was just laid off, she had three kids, one with special needs, and they had just filed for bankruptcy so she needed this novel to work. Less than 1 year later, her debut novel, Fixed on You, was at the […]
The blurb for this book sounded like just the kind of book that I enjoy reading. “Margot Lewis is the agony aunt for The Cambridge Examiner. Her advice column, Dear Amy, gets all kinds of letters – but none like the one she’s just received: Dear Amy, I don’t know […]
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: 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 Publication Date: 3 Mar 2016. 288 pages. Thin Ice is the fifth book in the Icelandic detective series featuring Officer Gunnhildur although it does work quite well as a standalone story if you haven’t read any of the others. This was my first Quentin Bates book and I’ll definitely […]
UK Publication Date: 21 Apr 2016. 320 pages. It is an interesting angle for a story. Two twelve year old girls are abducted from their respective homes in small-town America. Carly May is a junior beauty queen attending pageants and winning titles. Lois is a Spelling Bee Champion and a […]
UK Publishing Date: 1 Apr 2016. 330 pages. This is a tale of two extraordinary women separated by eighty years but both bound together by the Royal Sussex Hospital in Brighton. In 1938 Grace Kemp starts at the hospital as a trainee nurse. Abused by her father’s friend she found […]
UK Publication Date: 3 May 2016. 320 pages. This debut novel from Mary Waters-Sayer is full of colour and sensation. A literary novel with depth and substance. Kat is mother to Will and wife to entrepreneur Jonathan. They have a very comfortable life in Kensington, with a large house next […]
UK Publishing Date: 5 Apr 2016. 368 pages. Over the last couple of years there has been a resurgence of classic books being rewritten in a modern or futuristic setting. Tell the Wind and Fire doesn’t hide where it gets its inspiration from as it opens with: “It was the […]
UK Publication Date: 7 Apr 2016. 368 pages. Lucy Worsley has written a number of serious historical tomes for adult readers but this is her first book for younger readers. That said, although this is marketed as a children’s book with illustrations, I would be inclined to say that it […]
UK Publishing Date: 21 Apr 2016. 384 pages. The story begins in London in 1970. At the age of twenty seven Audrey Bailey is alone in the world. Her father has died leaving her an orphan. At the urging of her friend Janet she boards a ship and travels half […]
UK Publishing Date: 14 Apr 2016. 464 pages The Obsession is the latest of Nora Roberts’ standalone novels. Although marketed as a romantic suspense novel it is a tough one to describe. Think Criminal Minds meets Grand Designs set in Twilight country. I did warn you. It’s complicated. Naomi Bowes […]
UK Publication Date: 21 Apr 2016 (PB). 384 pages. If you’ve been following the exploits of the Chocolate Lovers Club you’ll have been waiting with bated breath for this the fourth book in their series. Picking up pretty much where the Chocolate Lovers’ Christmas finished up our intrepid friends are […]
UK Publishing Date: 7 Jun 2016. 216 pages. Interference is the third book in Sophia Henry’s Pilot Hockey series. It is a very short read at 216 pages and more of a novella – however this is reflected in the price. If you come to this book expecting a full […]
UK Publishing Date: 25 Feb 2016. 528 pages. Did I love this or hate it? I’m still not entirely sure. In Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl the main character is a girl called Cath who writes fan fiction. Specifically Harry Potter fan fiction featuring an orphan wizard called Simon and a vampire […]
UK Publishing Date: 24 Mar 2016 416 pages When I heard that Cecelia Ahern had written a YA book I was intrigued. She’s a writer that I’ve read many times and I have spent days lounging by a pool on holiday reading her contemporary chic lit stories. Perhaps that is […]
UK Publishing Date: 11 Feb 2016 336 pages Beautiful Broken Things will resonate with any woman who had a best friend to share their secrets with during their teenage years. Marketed as a YA book this debut by Sara Bernard explores the relationship and friendships between three sixteen year old […]
UK Publishing Date: 7 Jan 2016 (Paperback due 5 May 2016). 384 pages. It was a struggle remembering to exhale as I reached the climax of Holly Seddon’s debut novel Try Not to Breathe. Alex Dale is a lot of things. An ex-wife. An ex-journalist. A pretty good high functioning […]
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