My apologies for not having posted for a while – in the run-up to Christmas, life has just taken over a little. I’ve read some wonderful books though, and I can’t wait to tell you about them. First there was The Emergence of Judy Taylor by Angela Jackson, which I really loved – I have… Read More »
I must start by saying how much I loved this book – you’ll see how much I loved it when you read my review. But I have to be honest and say that it wasn’t what I expected at all. Maybe it’s my fault for having expectations based solely on the title and the cover… Read More »
Meet the Bird Family. All four children have an idyllic childhood: a picture-book cottage in a country village, a warm, cosy kitchen filled with love and laughter, sun-drenched afternoons in a rambling garden. But one Easter weekend a tragedy strikes the Bird family that is so devastating that, almost imperceptibly, it begins to tear them… Read More »
It’s ages since I read this one, and I’m so thrilled people are now posting reviews because I was bursting to tell you about it! Every now and then, a book comes along that is so absolutely perfect that it stops you in your tracks and you think you’ll never read anything so perfect ever… Read More »
It’s been a bit of a grey and miserable weekend, so I decided to give it a little sparkle by reading some of the new Christmas short reads that are starting to pile up on my Kindle. I’m not always a big fan of short reads – sometimes it’s frustrating to spend such a short… Read More »
A whirlwind romance. A perfect marriage. Hannah Reilly has seized her chance at happiness. Until the day her husband fails to come home . . . The more questions Hannah asks, the fewer answers she finds. But are the secrets that Mark has been keeping designed to protect him or protect her? And can you… Read More »
From Amazon Eamonn Lynch stares at the letter announcing the imminent arrival of his father, Dermot. His first thought is: I’ll make an excuse, I’ll put him off. But it is too late. Dermot is already here, in southern Spain, and soon he’ll discover that Eamonn lives in an unfinished building site; that Laura’s left… Read More »
From Amazon When a young Finnish student Kaisa is invited to the British Embassy cocktail party in Helsinki to celebrate a Royal Navy visit to Finland, she’s not looking for romance. After all, her future has been carefully planned: she’s to complete her degree, marry her respectable, well-to-do Finnish fiancé Matti, and live happily ever… Read More »
When Alex Munro learns that the love of her life is getting married to another girl, all she wants is to be alone – and as far away from Edinburgh as possible. Moving to a Cornish cottage, which comes complete with the world’s scruffiest dog, Alex finds that her new neighbours are determined to involve… Read More »
From Amazon: With its flower-filled gardens, splashing fountains and sundrenched pool, Magnolia Park is an idyllic holiday complex in Fuengirola on the Spanish Costa del Sol. Into this stunning setting comes Amy Crawford and her partner Sam Benson, one of the most sought-after men in Dublin before Amy hooked him. But their relationship is heading… Read More »
Catherine the Great muses on her life, her relentless battle between love and power, the country she brought into the glorious new century, and the bodies left in her wake. By the end of her life, she had accomplished more than virtually any other woman in history. She built and grew the Romanov empire, amassed… Read More »
In 2011, The Alan Titchmarsh Show launched a competition to find a new novelist. The 1000+ entries, competing for a deal with Harper Collins, were whittled down to a final four. Jane Cable’s excellent The Cheesemaker’s House won the suspense and crime category. But the overall winner was Madeleine Reiss for Someone to Watch Over… Read More »
I learned a lesson when I did my September reading round-up – don’t promise what you might not actually deliver! October has been an excellent reading month – with a few exceptions – but the books I’ve read weren’t all the ones I’d planned at all (I have no discipline at all…) and I STILL… Read More »
I’ve always been a massive fan of Rachel Hore’s books – her style is immensely readable, and the dual time aspect of all her books is always something I enjoy. I first discovered her writing with lovely The Memory Garden, and I loved almost all the others too – The Glass Painter’s Daughter, The Dream… Read More »
Every so often, I really like to step a little outside my reading comfort zone. I did it with Wool by Hugh Howey, again with The Coincidence Authority by JW Ironmonger, and loved them both. This was another book that I really wanted to try as soon as I’d read the description: When Mae is… Read More »