Reviews

  I know this is completely out of season but I’m playing catch up with all my reviews so we are where we are. A Christmas Carol is compulsory viewing in our house on Christmas Eve. The Patrick Stewart version, naturally. However, I’d never read the book, until this year. I actually started it after […]

  I was so envious of Maisie when I read this wonderful story. Moving back home after university she had the chance, and challenge, to start up a smallholding and as a huge fan of The Good Life I can’t imagine any better way of life. How to Breed Sheep, Geese and English Eccentrics is […]

  This is a detective story with many differences and as well as the usual hunt for a killer a romance is blended into the tale, and it’s no ordinary love story either. Detective David Mallory is going through something in his personal life that I won’t divulge here but which is all encompassing. He […]

I am part of this author’s street team and received a copy of Summer Song which is a short story. This does not alter my review in any way. After a tragedy ten-year-old Melody is returned to the house of her grandmother, who she didn’t know existed. But then she also didn’t know she was […]

  I offered to read and review The Solo Squid because it covers a subject close to my heart. I have been running my own one-person business for over 23 years now, and not always happily, so I was keen to find out what this author had to say on the subject. I received a […]

  I bought this short story a while ago because I like Jeanne Felfe’s writing but also because the profits from this are going to what I believe is a worthwhile fundraising campaign. Jeanne has extended this fundraising period to cover the first quarter of this year and I’ve copied below the information she gave […]

I chose to read A Sickness in the Soul as a member of Rosie Amber’s Book Review Team and received a copy from the author but this does not influence my review in any way. A Sickness in the Soul is part of The Ashmole Foxe Georgian Mysteries, a series of British historical mysteries set […]

I don’t read poetry much; I keep saying that yet keep getting drawn to it. As with this book, Party Glass, which I chose to read from the submissions made to Rosie Ambers Book Review Team. I received a copy from the author but that doesn’t change my review in any way. I read this […]

Right from the start of this story you know you’re off on an interesting journey with a colourful family. The tale is told from the daughter, Mary’s, point of view. She has an older sister called Sally who she doesn’t think too much of because of her promiscuous behaviour. A drunken gambler for a father […]

In Crime and PUNKishment the writers show in words and photos the time when punk burst into the public consciousness and how it affected them. There is an awful lot of good stuff in this book and if you are into punk, or grew up in that scene you will enjoy this read – there’s […]