When I saw that Susi Osborne had asked Rachel to organise a blog tour for Angelica Stone, I just had to be part of it. I really enjoyed this book – I called it “a dark and delicious surprise” – and it’s a real pleasure to share my review again. If you’d like to find… Read More »
It’s such a pleasure today to be joining the blog tour for The Cold Cold Sea by Linda Huber, republished on 21st August with a glorious new cover. I’ve wanted to read Linda Huber’s books for such a long time – everything she’s ever written is on my kindle, such was my conviction that I’d… Read More »
It’s a real pleasure today to join the blog tour for The Wedding Shop on Wexley Street – the third in the Westfield village series – by Rachel Dove, published on 10th August by HQ Digital. I’m sorry I don’t have a review to share, but I just couldn’t fit in the reading – I really… Read More »
So Anne, why have you been reading a Christmas book, published last year and already a bestseller, during the hottest August in living memory? There is a story to tell. It’s a few years now since I met Jules Wake at Romance at the Court – I liked her immediately, we spent a while putting… Read More »
It’s always such a pleasure to feature a new release from Ruby Fiction – the new imprint from Choc Lit – on publication day. Today it’s a delight to share my review of Evie’s Little Black Book by Hannah Pearl, published today (21st August) on all major e-book platforms and as an audio book. My thanks… Read More »
I’m not a big historical fiction reader, but I am a bit of a fan of timeslip – so I couldn’t resist the fun of joining the blog blitz for The Last Plantagenet? by Jennifer C Wilson. The fireplace hadn’t looked like a time-portal. All Kate had wanted was a fun, relaxing day out, watching the knights… Read More »
When I read and reviewed The Good Sister by Maggie Christensen – you’ll find my review here – I knew I’d found an author whose writing I could love. And I’ve now had the real pleasure of reading the sequel, Isobel’s Promise, published on 2nd August (my thanks to the author for my review e-copy) –… Read More »
It was such a pleasure to welcome Helena Fairfax as my guest on Being Anne back in May (you’ll find the post here), telling us about Miss Moonshine’s Emporium of Happy Endings – an anthology by nine Northern romance authors who call themselves Authors on the Edge – published on 18th May, and available in print… Read More »
Goodness, was it really March when Terry Lynn Thomas joined me here on Being Anne? You can read her guest post again here. It might have taken me rather longer than I intended to get round to reading The Silent Woman – published by HQ Digital in April – but it was most definitely well… Read More »
One of my most popular posts last month was the one I put together with help from Jessie Cahalin – going back to the seventies, meeting Pearl from her recently released novel You Can’t Go It Alone. If you missed it, you’ll find it again here. With the book available via Amazon in the UK… Read More »
Fanny Blake unfailingly produces the kind of books I love to read, and it’s a real pleasure today to share my review of her latest, An Italian Summer. Published on 26th July by Orion, available for kindle, in paperback and audio, my thanks to netgalley and the publishers for my advance reading e-copy. A compelling… Read More »
It was a real pleasure to welcome Val Portelli as my guest last month – if you missed her wonderful post on how to be a blogging author, you can read it again here. Weird and Peculiar Tales, written in conjunction with Paula Harmon, was published for kindle in May (UK/US), and is now also available in paperback… Read More »
A real pleasure today to be joining the blog tour for If You Love Me, I’m Yours by Lizzie Chantree – published by Crooked Cat Books on 9th July, and available for kindle and in paperback. And having read some of the reviews for this one, I’m rather kicking myself that I wasn’t able to… Read More »
Should you be searching for reviews of other books from Kirsty Ferry, you’ll find plenty here on Being Anne – she unfailingly produces books I enjoy. Her latest novella, Summer at Carrick Park, is published today (1st August) by Choc Lit, available on all major e-book platforms, and I was delighted to receive an advance… Read More »
Being Anne is now just over five years old, but there are those books I read in the very early days that will always have a special place in my heart. I reviewed The Cheesemaker’s House by Jane Cable way back in September 2013, and remember it as well as if I’d read and enjoyed… Read More »