In the second part of this series we really get embedded with the inhabitants of Innishmahon and I love the characters Vaughan builds. My favourite, Miss Macready. Marianne has become part of the community and Vaughan has a brilliant way of writing so you can hear the Irish lilt as it’s spoken around her […]
Several years ago I was at a writing event in Leicester and met the lovely Adrienne Vaughan. She gave me a beautiful paperback of the third part of this series and it has been waiting for me to get to it ever since. Now, because I’m not completely crazy I obviously had to start […]
I don’t often read non-fiction memoir but was intrigued to understand what had happened to cause Nikki Rodwell to break her back and also I wanted to read her story of hopeful recovery. It is very clear from the outset how shocking this injury was for Nikki and her family, and how they couldn’t […]
Entrepreneurs are busy, hard-working people who need to schedule self-care time as a fundamental business responsibility. As the leader of your organization, if you get run down or burned out, your business suffers, so consider self-care to be just as important as other aspects of operating your business. Even taking time to relax with an […]
Anyone who knows me knows that my favourite place, in fact the place I would run too, should I ever be expelled from the UK, you never know, it might just happen, would be Malta. Well, Gozo to be precise, but the Maltese islands as a whole. So, imagine my delight at seeing a book […]
I hope you are well. This is a quick email to remind you that Parallel Lies, my fourth novel, has been discounted to 99p/99c (or the equivalent in your country) on Amazon only for the next few days. It is appearing on Hello Books, which you might want to check out as a future source of […]
I chose to read Writing Success as a member of Rosie Amber’s Book Review Team and received a copy from the author. This does not change my review in any way. Writing Success is, as it says on the front cover, a book filled with inspiring stories of success, with hints and tips for […]
I thoroughly enjoyed getting back to the slower pace of life on the canal network around the UK, and catching up with a few old friends from Union Clues, plus some new faces, in the second part of this trilogy, Broken Lock. I loved Nathan, freshly released from prison he is the character you […]
I chose to read this book as a proud member of Rosie’s Book Review Team and received a copy from the author. This has not affected my review in any way. Backstories is a great idea. Take famous people from history, ancient or more recent, and write a short backstory about them allowing the […]
No More Mulberries is the beautifully written story of Miriam and Iqbal, and of their family and working life in the rural village of Sang-i-Sia, Afghanistan. Miriam is a midwife who was born in Scotland, but wholeheartedly takes on the traditions and culture of her life in Afghanistan. Iqbal, her husband, is a doctor […]
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