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I’m delighted today to be helping launch the blog tour for An Italian Island Secret by Victoria Springfield, and sharing my publication day review: published today (21st January) by Boldwood Books, it’s now available as an ebook (free via Kindle Unlimited), in paperback, and as an audiobook. My thanks to Rachel at Rachel’s Random Resources… Read More »

It’s such a pleasure today to be helping launch the blog tour for the latest book from Celia Anderson, Onwards and Upwards, and sharing my publication day review: published today (20th January) by Boldwood Books, it’s now available as an e-book (free via Kindle Unlimited), in paperback, and as an audiobook. My thanks (as always)… Read More »

I’m delighted today to be helping launch the blog tour for Something in the Air by Helen Rolfe, the third book in her Skylarks series, and sharing my publication day review: published today (17th January) by Boldwood Books, it’s now available as an ebook (free via Kindle Unlimited), in paperback, and as an audiobook. My… Read More »

Apologies, a little later in the day than usual, but it’s a delight today to share my publication day review of the latest book from Jill Mansell, An Almost Perfect Summer. Published today (16th January) by Headline Review, it’s now available in hardcover, on all major e-book platforms, and as an audiobook, with the paperback… Read More »

I’m delighted today to be launching the blog tour for The Storyteller’s Daughter, the latest book by Victoria Scott, and sharing my publication day review. Published today (15th January) by Boldwood Books, it’s now available as an ebook (free via Kindle Unlimited), in paperback, and as an audiobook. Many thanks, as always, to Rachel at… Read More »

It’s a real pleasure today to be helping launch the blog tour and sharing my publication day review of the latest book from Gillian Harvey, Midnight in Paris: published today (14th January) by Boldwood Books, it’s now available as an ebook (free via Kindle Unlimited), as an audiobook, and in paperback. My thanks to Rachel… Read More »

Apologies, I’ve been slacking a bit – still reading (of course – it’s like breathing!) but sorting out holidays, making sure my finances are in good order, filling the freezer with batch cooking, even some housework and ironing (I hardly know myself!). But I did promise to tell you about these books, didn’t I? I… Read More »

The reviews I write – and share – are always books I’ve read on my kindle, but it’s become a bit of a tradition to produce an annual round-up of the audiobooks I’ve listened to over the previous year. If you’ve read any of my previous audiobook posts (two for 2022 – here and here… Read More »

I always really enjoy pulling together my list of Books of the Year – looking back over the year, remembering the many hours of such enjoyable reading, reading again the many reviews. It took a while – I’ve read 165 books this year. But that did include 15 audiobooks (I’ll be producing a separate post… Read More »

My last review of the year, and I’m really delighted to share my publication day review of The Earl’s Marriage Dilemma by Sarah Mallory. Published today (19th December) by Mills & Boon/Harlequin Historical, it’s now available via Amazon in the UK and US for kindle and in paperback, on other major e-book platforms, and also… Read More »

Just a quickie today! As I’ve now completed all my Christmas reads, I just thought you might like to know what I’ll be reading over Christmas and New Year. Throughout the year, most of my reading is for blog tours – it’s something that works really well for me, keeping to a strict schedule, knowing… Read More »

When I start to review Christmas books in August, I’m always very aware that there will be many who really aren’t too interested in such things until we reach December. I thoroughly enjoy every single one, but with no more Christmassy reviews to come (although there are many more books that have caught my eye,… Read More »

My second review of the day, and I’m delighted to share my review of Murder in Bloom by Liz Fielding, the third of her Maybridge murder mysteries: published by Joffe Books on 30th July, it’s now available for kindle (just 99p, or free via Kindle Unlimited), in paperback, and as an audiobook. The e-copy I… Read More »

Two reviews today, both a tad shorter than my usual – I’m desperate to catch up a little before my Christmas break! And it’s a real pleasure to share my first, a review of The Stranger in My House, the latest book from Judith Barrow. Published in paperback by Honno Welsh Women’s Press on 14th… Read More »

And my final Christmas review of the year? It’s Mix-Up under the Mistletoe by Margaret Amatt, independently published on 23rd November, and now available for kindle (free via Kindle Unlimited) and in paperback too (and what a lovely cover!). It was a bit of a wildcard really, but I’d read some reviews from the blog tour… Read More »