Reviews

  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 […]

  I like the idea of long walks and have seen a few I fancy doing, although realistically this won’t be until after I retire. So, for the time being, I read about them. This walker/author has written about his journey on the Camino de Santiago from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port across the Pyrenees and on to Santiago […]

  I chose to read this book as a member of Rosie Amber’s Book Review Team and received a copy from the author, but that doesn’t alter my review in any way. Timothy Badger and Benjamin Watson are partners in a detecting agency along the lines of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. They live in […]

Libby, mother of Bridget and Robert, was once the lead singer of a band, Liberty. Something she has never spoken to her children about. When Bridget looks for a new direction for her life and considers going back to college, she meets Dean and is encouraged by him to use Libby’s musical past in her […]