Hello everyone! I was planning just to write a short post to say a massive thank you to everyone who voted for me in the Annual Bloggers’ Bash awards – if you haven’t heard (maybe your wifi has been on the blink?!) I was so delighted to win the Best Pal award yesterday for the… Read More »
I’m really so excited about this book! Miss Moonshine’s Emporium of Happy Endings – an anthology by nine Northern romance authors – was published on 18th May, available in print and as an ebook, and it looks like one I’m really going to enjoy. And featuring it today is so much more of a pleasure… Read More »
A deep and luminous story of late love and second chances – an enduring novel of ideas about life, love and the surprises it throws at us. How’s that for a description? Totally impossible for me to resist, and I’m really delighted to be joining the blog tour and sharing my review of Meet Me… Read More »
It’s sadly impossible to read every book that catches your eye, but I’m delighted today to join the blog tour for The Dissent of Annie Lang by Ros Franey, published in April (kindle and paperback) by Muswell Press. See if it appeals to you as much as it did to me… ‘My story starts and ends at railway… Read More »
Although I love blogging about books, there are times when it can be so very frustrating. There are sometimes difficult decisions to make, those books I just can’t manage to fit into my reading diary – and that’s particularly painful when it means leaving out an author who’s given me such a lot of personal… Read More »
It’s a real delight today to be joining the blog tour and sharing my review of Meeting Lydia by Linda MacDonald – a second edition, which has reworked the early chapters of the first edition, making for a pacy and shorter version more in line with the audiobook that received such excellent reviews on its recent… Read More »
It’s a real pleasure today to be joining the blog tour for Bluethroat Morning by Jacqui Lofthouse, published in digital format by Blackbird Digital Books on 22nd May, and currently available at the special digital preorder price of 99p. I know I’ve told you before about Blackbird, a relatively new independent publisher with an unerring eye… Read More »
It’s a real pleasure today to join the blog tour for The Development, the third in the Cora Baxter Mysteries series from Jackie Kabler, published on 10th May for kindle and in paperback by Accent Press. I still haven’t managed to catch up on this lovely looking series – but the cover endorsement from Linda’s… Read More »
It’s two years now since I read, reviewed and loved Sewing The Shadows Together by Alison Baillie (review here). You might remember that I won a signed copy of the book in the #TBConFB charity auction for Cancer Research UK, together with the opportunity to be a named character in her next book. And that book is now… Read More »
After joining in for the cover reveal for The Things We Need to Say by Rachel Burton, I’d already decided I really wanted to read this lovely looking book. Publication day today (congratulations, Rachel!), and just a spotlight from me – but I will be reading, and sharing my review on 7th June. Sometimes the… Read More »
It was such a pleasure to welcome author Carolyn Hughes as my guest here on Being Anne back in September, talking about what makes an historical novel seem “authentic” (do read the post again here). That post focused on Fortune’s Wheel, the first of the Meonbridge Chronicles, and made me decide I’d really like to try… Read More »
It’s always good to be able to work with a new-to-me small publisher, and I was delighted when Lauren at Blue Crow Books introduced me to author Katie Rose Guest Pryal. Katie’s latest book, Fallout Girl: A Hollywood Lights Novel was published on 7th May, available from Amazon in the US and UK. She calls herself… Read More »
I’ve revealed covers, and enjoyed one of her novellas (you can read my review of How to Get Hitched here) – but I’m delighted that joining one of Rachel’s blog blitzes has given me the opportunity, at long last, to read one of Samantha Tonge’s novels. One Summer in Rome is published for kindle today… Read More »
I might not have been able to read it in time for the blog tour, but I must say that The Girl’s Book of Priesthood by Louise Rowland – published in March by Muswell Press, available in paperback and for kindle – looks just wonderful, and was an immediate addition to my “must read” list.… Read More »
Those lovely people at Choc Lit publish such wonderful books that – every now and then – I reluctantly have to accept that I just can’t read them all by publication date. The Truth Lies Buried by Morton S. Gray – the second in the Borteen Secrets Series – was published on all e-book platforms… Read More »