From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Last Letter Home, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick, comes a thrilling novel about a woman with an extraordinary life, based on a true story. ‘Fantastic… Exciting, impeccably researched and full of powerful period atmosphere’ Daily Mail Minnie Gray is an ordinary young woman.She is also a spy for the British government. It all began in the summer of 1928… Minnie is supposed … Continue reading A Beautiful Spy by Rachel Hore #BookReview #SimonandSchusterUK #NetGalley #5*

“Your problem is you have a Russian soul,” Anna’s mother tells her. In 1980, Anna is a naïve UConn senior studying abroad in Moscow at the height of the Cold War—and a second-generation Russian Jew raised on a calamitous family history of abandonment, Czarist-era pogroms, and Soviet-style terror. As Anna dodges date rapists, KGB agents, and smooth-talking black marketeers while navigating an alien culture for … Continue reading Forget Russia by L. Bordetsky-Williams #BookReview #TailwindsPress #4.5*

“a wonderfully crafted novel” Continue reading In the Realm of Ash and Sorrow by Kenneth W. Harmon #BookReview #EiledonPress #NetGalley #5*