With the new series Midnight, Texas launching on Syfy in the UK this Thursday it feels like a good time to get to grips with the books behind the show. It took me a while to get round to reading this one. I’d been a little disappointed with more recent […]
Many thanks to the good people at Hodder & Stoughton for including “Angelnet Reviews” on their blog tour around the release date for Dandy Gilver’s latest outing. As usual I’ve done my normal trick of picking up a book far along in a series! This is book twelve in McPherson’s […]
When Hunting Lila was first published in 2011 Sarah Alderson was an unknown writer trying to pay the bills in Bali. Now she is a screenwriter and successful author living in California and Hunting Lila is heading for the big screen this year. Lila is seventeen and there are two […]
Famous for her unique wit and her ability to put into very funny words what she is quite sure no-one else is thinking, Caitlin Moran presents her latest book. Moranifesto is a collection of her magazine and newspaper columns as well as some new diatribes just for this publication. Although […]
I rarely enjoy short story collections. You just start to get engaged with the characters and the story ends. I find them frustrating and generally best avoided. But when Jojo Moyes puts out an anthology I have to make an exception and I’m so glad that I did. Although this […]
Sometimes you pick up a book and just know that you are going to love it. Flora Banks is seventeen. She lives in a Cornish seaside town and her best friend is Paige – who she has known since she started school. Flora has memory issues, anterograde amnesia. Not just […]
I never read celebrity biographies. NEVER. Every Christmas there is a table in my local bookstore full of the latest asinine self congratulatory books, ghost written for people that don’t really deserve to be called celebrities. Honestly I was nervous picking up Scrappy Little Nobody. Anna Kendrick is only 31 […]
A Winter break in Prague is proving to be a challenging situation for Megan. Ollie is her best friend and she is keen to keep him at arms length and to keep their relationship on a strictly platonic level. Ollie however has other ideas and Megan is determined that this […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
