Apart from a few less warm days last week (when the schools here broke up), summer has landed! This is my time of year .. days spent in the garden with my kindle to hand. My skin is beginning to get that sun-kissed glow about it – not always easy to achieve in Scotland. A few months of this would be my preference but it’s … Continue reading June 2021
Marcie never wanted to feel this way about her grandfather. Uneasy, resentful, afraid. She’s always been his favourite, his Bird — the helpless little thing who stole his heart at birth. Now he is dying and Marcie can’t stand to be around him. Day and night, he raves of Rebekkah, a raven-haired beauty who never leaves his side. She is not his wife.She is not … Continue reading The Other Woman by Jane Adams #BookReview #JoffeBooks #4*
AN ADDICTIVE MUST-READ WHODUNNIT FROM THE NEWEST TALENT IN CRIME FICTION A new life. A new town. A dead body. Andrea “Andi” Silvers needs a fresh start. Once a star reporter, she’s been dumped by her lover and by the paper they both worked at. Andi moves to the tiny fishing village of Coffin Cove, on the Vancouver coast, where she lands a job at … Continue reading Coffin Cove by Jackie Elliott #BookReview #CoffinCove1 #JoffeBooks #4.5*
The Island – where everyone knows everyone, and secrets are impossible to keep… ‘Be careful, you don’t know them as well as you think. Remember – anyone can kill.’ Juliet has returned to the Isle of Wight from years abroad to visit her sick father and to be reunited with her three sisters – Cassie, a professional musician who seems to have lost her way … Continue reading The Island by Mary Grand #BookReview #BlogTour #BoldwoodBooks #Rachel’sRandomResources #NetGalley #4*
Shortlisted for Choc Lit’s 2019 Search for a Star competition Perdita Riley is facing the greatest dilemma of her life. Why had she taken Violet Freestone’s advice on how to make herself look more alluring? It led her into the arms of a womaniser. And now Perdita has to deal with a huge setback. Actually, Setback Number One isn’t huge yet, but it won’t be … Continue reading Love & Pollination by Mari Jane Law #BookReview #DebutNovel #DuBois #4.5*
No man is an island…. but in Dublin an inner-city lane can be just that. Welcome to Clementine Lane, where everyone knows everyone’s business and respectfully keeps it to themselves and everyone else. A drugs rehabilitation centre is set for development on the lane, prompting the locals and their snobbish neighbours from the next road over, to unite in protest. This fragile alliance is forced … Continue reading Clementine Lane by Eoghan Brunkard #BookReview #IndieAuthor #4.5*
A MESMERIZING BREAK-OUT CRIME THRILLER FULL OF BREATHTAKING TWISTS Nic always hated clubbing. She only went out that night because she’d promised a friend. She wakes up, naked and bound in an abandoned cottage in the middle of nowhere. Dappled light comes in through a dirty window. Her body is covered in cuts. Across the room her friend groans in pain. A shadow passes the … Continue reading Knife Edge by Kerry Buchanan #BookReview #DetectivesHarvey&Birch1 #JoffeBooks #3.5*
Nothing will stop the The Tobacco Girls not even war… BRISTOL 1940. The Tobacco Girls cling together as they realise that the clouds of war are turning dark, the world is becoming more dangerous and their lives more unpredictable. Bridget Milligan’s big, happy family fragments when her siblings are evacuated to North Devon, then a letter from America further fills her with dismay. Maisie Miles safe haven … Continue reading Dark Days for the Tobacco Girls by Lizzie Lane #BookReview #TobaccoGirls2 #BlogTour #BoldwoodBooks #Rachel’sRandomResources #NetGalley #4.5*
AN UNFORGETTABLE PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER SET IN THE DARK, GOTHIC HEART OF RURAL AUSTRALIA The moment he dies, the room explodes with life. Joy Henderson returns to the family farm to nurse her dying father. To the outside world, George is a pillar of the community, but to Joy and her siblings, he’s a monster. As children, they lived in constant fear of the punishments he … Continue reading The Silent Listener by Lyn Yeowart #BookReview #Joffe Books #5*
From the author of Sunday Times Bestseller, Dear Mrs Bird, comes a much hoped-for follow up. Charming, hilarious and inspiring, Yours Cheerfully is just the tonic we’ve all been waiting for. London, September, 1941. Following the departure of the formidable Editor, Henrietta Bird, from Woman’s Friend magazine, things are looking up for Emmeline Lake as she takes on the challenge of becoming a young wartime advice columnist. Her relationship with boyfriend Charles … Continue reading Yours Cheerfully by A. J. Pearce #BookReview #EmmyLakeChronicles2 #Picador #NetGalley #5*
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