Reviews

  I’ll start this review by saying that the short stories that feature in The Emporium are a delight to read from start to finish. Told by the unnamed owner of a particularly intriguing shop, they are tales you know but told in a way that is refreshing and entertaining. I should add that these […]

  Amanda in Ireland: The Body in the Bog is book 11 in the series of stories about adventurous Canadian twelve-year-old Amanda Ross. Amanda has travelled to Ireland to be a bridesmaid at her cousin, Taylor’s, wedding. He is marrying Roisin, and Amanda soon meets her and many more of Roisin’s family. Roisin also owns […]

  Served Cold is the first book, made up of two novellas, in a new series from Terry Tyler on the subject of revenge. The series is certainly off to a good start with these stories too, and they are very different from each other. The first story is called The Steal and features Jodie […]

  I chose to read The Secret Life of Jasper Scragg as a member of Rosie’s Book Review Team and received a copy from the author, but that makes no difference to the review I write for it. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this entertaining novel. I’ll try not to give any spoilers, but suffice to […]

  I reviewed the first part of this trilogy HERE, and the second part HERE, if you want to get up to speed with what I’ve thought about the series so far. I finished the third part of this trilogy in the early hours. It really is one of those un-put-down-able novels where need to […]

I reviewed the first part of this trilogy HERE if you want to get up to speed with what I’ve thought about the series so far. The second part of this thrilling trilogy is sort of focused on the search for Sophie. Tiffany, owner of a small private investigation firm, sends one member of her […]

When you love an author’s work, you want to read everything they have written. At least I do. This is how I feel about Lorraine Devon Wilke’s writing. One easy way to ensure you haven’t missed anything is to check out their Amazon Author page. I did that for Wilke and was delighted to find […]

  I have to say from the start that I love big books. I remember reading and relishing all those by Jackie Collins, Shirley Conran, Wilbur Smith, Judith Krantz and many more, way back when I had considerably more time to read. There is such a richness to big books, such an indulgence. The writer […]

I recently finished reading Bitter Almond, and it was an absolute eye-opener on the care system, if you can call it that, of the early 1960s. In 1963 there was The Great Freeze, where parts of Britain were deep in snow and frozen solid for around three months. This affected many people, and in the […]

Anyone who knows me knows I don’t read poetry, but occasionally I make an exception, and this new book out from Jean Fairbairn is one of them. I have read and enjoyed her work before and bought this one as soon as it was released. Which tells you something. I think the thing I love […]