I love Christmas! The best thing about the evenings drawing in for Winter is the large number of Christmassy books that land on my Kindle. Some from authors that I know and love, and others – like this one – from writers that I haven’t read before. And honestly looking […]
After Paris begins like an episode of Gossip Girl. Teenage sons and daughters of the great and good have descended upon Paris for the grandest Debutante event in Europe. And this is how Alice, Nina and Jules met. The start of an unlikely friendship that has lasted for 20 years. […]
I loved Bella Osborne’s last book – The Library – so when I was asked to take part in the blog tour for her new book I jumped at the chance. Older readers may remember a 1980s US sitcom about a bunch of more mature women called The Golden Girls. […]
Christmas seems to have started much earlier this year. Some of my neighbours have had Christmas decorations up for about three weeks already in an attempt to alleviate some of the gloom of the Winter lockdown in England. So if you’re looking for a little festive escapism this could well […]
Keeley Andrews has had a pretty rough year. Her life has been turned upside down and now she’s very much under the gaze of her over-protective mother and feeling a little lost. When an email arrives out of the blue inviting her to spend an all expenses fortnight in Paris […]
The queen of the RomCom, Kelk returns with the story of Ros. She has spent three years working away in Washington and now that she has returned she wants to pick up her old life in London just where she left it. Unfortunately her family and friends have other ideas […]
When Anna meets Adam she’s on her “honeymoon” with her best friend Nell having just broken up with her fiance in the weeks before the wedding. Romance or love are the last things on her mind and she’s happy to spend some time in the sun having a few drinks […]
Sarah started her writing career with an online travel blog when she moved her family to Bali and from there branched into Young Adult fiction. Her most recent books have been quite intense gut wrenching thrillers that you simply can’t put down and The Weekend Away continues in this vein. […]
After seven weeks in lockdown it is looking more and more likely that the only Greek sunshine I’m going to get this year is vicariously through the pages of a book. Alice Clark is delighted when boyfriend Max suddenly proposes to her in a little restaurant in Crete. Her life […]
Over a Curly Wurly wrapper three eight year old Welsh schoolgirls swear an oath to be friends for life. Lana, Judith and Catrin will be friends whatever else might happen in their lives. At eight it feels like such an uncomplicated truth but little do they know what fate will […]
Painter has created a wonderful supernaturally infused underworld in London that rivals Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London series. Here the central character is Lydia Crow, heir apparent to one of the four magical family dynasties. Working as a private detective from the family cafe she tries to stay clear of the […]
If you’ve ever had nightmare neighbours you can sympathise with the residents of Lowland Way. It’s a pretty well to do street in an area of South London that has become gentrified. Waitrose shoppers aspiring to send their well heeled offspring to good schools and to have the best start […]
Just when you think that Caroline Mitchell can’t surprise you she comes up with The Perfect Mother. Roz is just about scraping by in a job that she hates in Dublin. When she realises that she is pregnant after an ill advised one night stand things are pretty desperate. She […]
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 […]
I love a good book cover and shamelessly I will admit that it is often the difference between picking up a book in the store or not. This latest book from Isabelle Broom has the most gorgeous cover art and it captured me right from the start. Alice lives with […]
For Father’s Day I’ve chosen a book from a series that might appeal more to Dads out there. The Pope of Palm Beach is the latest in Dorsey’s Serge Storms series. Set in Florida, Serge and his sidekick Coleman are travelling through the state on a Literary tour. Irreverent and […]
This past week we had our “once every decade” deluge of snow. The country ground to a halt and I curled up in the warm with Ailsa Rae. There are some books that you really don’t want to end and The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae definitely falls into that […]
I don’t really go in for the kind of book that makes you weep. I find them too saccharine, just too artificial. So it came as a surprise when I realised that sitting reading this wonderful story about Frank and his music shop my cheeks were wet and that I […]
Not the most obvious choice of book for me. I’ll admit that I was drawn in the authors – James Patterson co-writing with Gabrielle Charbonnet. Crazy House is set in yet another dystopian future with downtrodden communities ruled by tyrants. Bizarrely I enjoyed this one. Seventeen year old Becca Greenfield […]
Eleanor Oliphant is a creature of habit. Aged thirty she is still working as an Accounts Assistant at the firm that she joined straight after her degree. She has the same meal deal for lunch every day and passes the time doing the Daily Telegraph crossword. She wears the same […]
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