Now who doesn’t enjoy a book about finding love at Christmas? I’m a little sad too though – today I’m finally reviewing Christmas at the Café at the End of the Pier by Helen Rolfe, and I’m going to really miss my visits to Jo’s café in Salthaven-on-Sea and finding out what’s been going on… Read More »

It’s an absolute delight today to be joining the blog tour for Mavis and Dot by Angela Petch, now available for kindle and in paperback. Angela’s Tuscan novels (more details below) have been on my “want to read” list for some time, but this novel is something of a departure from her usual writing –… Read More »

I’ve been waiting quite a long time to share my review of The Slow Death of Maxwell Carrick, the latest book by Jan Harvey, published by Matador, and now available as an e-book (for kindle via Amazon, and via iBooks) and in paperback (with signed and dedicated copies available via the author’s website). You might… Read More »

A little late in the day again, but it’s such a pleasure today to be featuring another book from one of my favourite publishers, Choc Lit – with thanks for my advance reading e-copy. Christmas at Borteen Bay, a rather lovely novella from Morton S. Gray, is published today (13th November), available from Amazon for kindle… Read More »

Sincere apologies for being so late in the day with this blog tour review – life’s just a tad unpredictable at the moment, but I was determined not to miss my chance to tell everyone how very much I enjoyed A Village Affair by Julie Houston. It was published by Aria on 6th November –… Read More »

It’s a real pleasure today to be joining the blog tour for Picking Up The Pieces by Jo Worgan, published by Urbane Publications on 8th November, available as an ebook and in paperback. It’s not the first time I’ve featured the author here on Being Anne: Jo was my guest in October 2016 – you’ll… Read More »

It’s a real pleasure to be joining the blog tour today for the latest book from T.A. Williams, Dreaming of Christmas, published by Canelo on 27th August. My sincere apologies to both Trevor and the publishers – I’d planned to read and review this one, but with my mum moving to a care home on… Read More »

It’s such a pleasure today to welcome author Anne Stormont as my guest here on Being Anne. To my shame, I still haven’t read one of her books – although I have an absolute conviction that I’d love her writing, knowing from her reviews that we’re often in perfect accord over the books we enjoy.… Read More »

There’s a difficult mixture of sadness and joy in joining the blog tour and sharing my review of Miss Marley, the novella published in hardback on 1st November by HQ, and also available for kindle and as an audiobook. The first nine chapters were written by the late Vanessa Lafaye: when Vanessa died earlier this… Read More »

It’s a pleasure today to be joining the blog tour for The Word for Freedom, the short story collection published by Retreat West on 1st November, available in paperback and for kindle. These 24 short stories celebrate women’s suffrage, and the collection was produced to raise money for Hestia, who support adults and children in… Read More »

It’s a real pleasure today to be joining the first day of the blog tour and sharing my review of The Promise of Tomorrow by AnneMarie Brear – available for kindle and in paperback via Amazon in the UK and US. Having met AnneMarie several times now, I’ve been meaning to read one of her… Read More »

When I heard that Linda MacDonald was arranging a blog tour for two of her books – A Meeting of a Different Kind and The Alone Alternative – with Random Things Tours, I was absolutely delighted. I loved her fourth book, The Man in the Needlecord Jacket, so very much – you’ll find my review… Read More »

It’s such a pleasure to share my review of One Magical Christmas, the new novella by Berni Stevens, published today by Choc Lit, available from Amazon for kindle and as an audiobook, and also available on all other major e-book platforms. And if I wasn’t feeling particularly sparkly and tinselly before – it is still… Read More »

I’m delighted today to be joining the blog tour and sharing my review of Cottage on a Cornish Cliff by Kate Ryder: published on 16th October by Aria Fiction, it’s available in paperback and on all major e-book platforms (kindle, Kobo, iBooks, Google). I thoroughly enjoyed the author’s first book for Aria, Summer in a… Read More »

It’s such a pleasure today to be joining the blog tour for A Christmas Gift by Sue Moorcroft, published as an ebook by Avon Books on 4th October, with the hardback and audiobook to follow on 1st November. My thanks to the publishers for my advance reading e-copy – and for the hardback copy now… Read More »