For the Love of Books
While everyone has been wrapped up in Halloween this month, we decided that it’s time to move house. It’s a scary prospect when I realise just how much there is that needs to be done. In just one month moving day will be upon me. I am proud to say that I have managed to […]
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Title: ON THE EDGE Author: Jane Jesmond ISBN: 9780857308177 Publisher: Verve Books Pages: 320 Source: Review copy from the publisher Blog Tour organised by Random Things Tours Jen Shaw’s love of danger is the only thing keeping her safe. Jen Shaw has climbed all her life: daring ascents of sheer rock faces, crumbling buildings, cranes
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Title: THE IMAGE OF HER Author: Sonia Velton ISBN: 978 1 52940 652 8 Publisher: Quercus Pages: 369 Source: Review Copy from Jonathan Ball Publishers STELLA and CONNIE are strangers, brought together by two traumatic events – cruel twists of fate that happen thousands of miles apart. Stella lives with her mother, a smothering narcissist.
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Wow, I cannot believe it! Today, one year ago, my blog went live with my first review post. After losing my job in the travel industry due to COVID I found I had way too much time on my hands. When I started the blog, the idea was to fill my day. I never expected
Title: THE GIRL, THE CROW, THE WRITER AND THE FIGHTER Author: George Paterson ISBN: 978-1-9163112-2-0 Publisher: Into Books Pages: 396 Source: Review copy from the publisher Tour Organised by Random Things Tours It’s 1965 and provocative author Henry Miller is taken incognito to an infamous title fight. In the turbulent aftermath of the bout, Miller
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Title: THE KILLER NEXT DOOR Author: Alex Marwood ISBN: 9780751550696 Publisher: Sphere Pages: 387 Source: Private Copy No. 23 has a secret. In this bedsit-riddled south London wreck, lorded over by a lecherous landlord, something waits to be discovered. Yet all six residents have something to hide. Collette and Cher are on the run; Thomas is
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Title: FOR YOUR OWN GOOD Author: Samantha Downing ISBN: 9780241446898 Publisher: Penguin Random House UK Pages: 393 Source: Review copy from Penguin Random House South Africa Teddy Crutcher has won Teacher of the Year at the esteemed Belmont Academy, home to the best and brightest. He says his wife couldn’t be more proud—though no one
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Title: THIS MUCH HUXLEY KNOWS Author: Gail Aldwin ISBN: 9781684337316 Publisher: Black Rose Writing Pages: 217 Source: Review Copy from the Author I’m seven years old and I’ve never had a best mate. Trouble is, no one gets my jokes. And Breaks-it isn’t helping. Ha! You get it, don’t you? Brexit means everyone’s falling out
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