Best friends tell you everything; about their kitchen renovation; about their little girl’s schooling. How one of them is leaving the other for a younger model.Best friends don’t tell lies. They don’t take up residence on your couch for weeks. They don’t call lawyers. They don’t make you choose sides.Best friends don’t keep secrets about… Read More »
Just to get away from the book reviews for a moment…I have a lovely friend called Marie – we’ve never actually met, but we know each other well through our mutual love of books. Marie has the most perfect little boy called Oliver who runs her ragged, but when she lost her very closest friend… Read More »
Fay Merryweather runs her cake shop from her beautiful garden. She whips up airy sponges and scrumptious scones, while her customers enjoy the lovely blossoms and gorgeous blooms. Looking after the cake shop, the garden and her cantankerous mother means Fay is always busy but she accepts her responsibilities because if she doesn’t do all this, who… Read More »
Can a mother’s secret past provide the answers for a daughter’s future? Celebrity photographer Grace Buchanan has always known that, one day, she’d swap her manic day job for the peace and quiet of her beloved childhood cottage, St Christopher’s – she just didn’t expect it to be so soon. At the reading of her mother’s will,… Read More »
When I decided on my 2014 books of the year, I found it quite impossible to include just one book by Lucinda Riley. She’s one of my all-time favourite authors, and you might like to take a look at last year’s reviews of The Midnight Rose and The Italian Girl – so highly recommended. Last year I was also… Read More »
I should be writing some reviews today – or failing that I really should be reading – but I can’t let the moment pass without drawing attention to some of the wonderful books being released today, either for the first time or as paperback editions. So this is just a little reminder of some of… Read More »
What if you had said yes? The moments that change everything…The Versions Of Us is a love story told three ways. A man is walking down a country lane. A woman, cycling towards him, swerves to avoid a dog. On that moment, their future hinges. There are three possible outcomes, three small decisions that could… Read More »
Five footprints are the only sign that Daniel Buck was ever here. And now they are all his mother has left. Every day, Anna Buck guards the little prints in the cement. Polishing them to a shine. Keeping them safe. Spiralling towards insanity.When a psychic offers hope, Anna grasps it. Who wouldn’t? Maybe he can tell her what… Read More »
What if you realized the book you were reading was all about you? When an intriguing novel appears on Catherine’s bedside table, she curls up in bed and begins to read.But as she turns the pages she is sickened to realize the story will reveal her darkest secret. A secret she thought no one else knew… I’m… Read More »
A tragic accident. It all happened so quickly. She couldn’t have prevented it. Could she?In a split second, Jenna Gray’s world descends into a nightmare. Her only hope of moving on is to walk away from everything she knows to start afresh. Desperate to escape, Jenna moves to a remote cottage on the Welsh coast,… Read More »
Phnom Penh, Cambodia; the rainy season. When a French man, Hugo Quercy, is found brutally murdered, Commandant Serge Morel finds his holiday drawn to an abrupt halt. Quercy – dynamic, well-connected – was the magnetic head of a humanitarian organisation which looked after the area’s neglected youth.Opening his investigation, the Parisian detective soon finds himself… Read More »
What would you do if the body and brain you rely on suddenly let you down – and would it change the person you are inside? Joe O’Brien is a Boston cop; his physical stamina and methodical mind have seen him through decades policing the city streets, while raising a family with his wife Rosie.… Read More »
1943, in the ruins of Blitzed London… Stella Thorne and Dan Rosinski meet by chance and fall in love by accident. Theirs is a reluctant, unstoppable affair in which all the odds are stacked against them: she is newly married, and he is an American bomber pilot whose chance of survival is just one in… Read More »
I’ve always been a bit of a fan of Lucy Robinson. I’ve followed her on Twitter for ages, love her website, and think she’s really lovely – I admire her way with words, her ability to choose exactly the ones that capture what you’re thinking, with perfect humour, always just on the polite side of… Read More »
He lives on your street, in a nice house with a tidy garden. He shops at your local supermarket. He drives beside you, waving to let you into the lane ahead of him. He also has an elaborate cage in a secret basement under his garage. The food he’s carefully shopping for is to feed… Read More »