Month: Dec 2019
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The Winter’s Sleep by Monica Cafferky – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Spooky and compelling – a great debut’ Peter James A fast-paced thriller with a supernatural twist, The Winter’s Sleep takes the reader on a breathtaking ride from Leeds to the Yorkshire coast in a tale of ghosts, betrayal and fraud. A handsome husband. A beautiful home. A job she loves. Yet Brigid Raven…
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With Her Fists by Henry Roi – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Clarice “Shocker” Ares retired from a sensational pro-boxing career to focus on her family and growing mechanic business. In an instant, everything she has worked for is shattered, when the police find a shipment of drugs in their shop, and wrongfully send Clarice and her husband to prison. Incarcerated and desperate after court…
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A Christmas Crime by Tara Lyons – Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A Christmas Crime From the bestselling author of The Paramedic’s Daughter and The DI Hamilton Series, comes a criminally festive delight to thrill you on a cold winter’s night. With snow falling in a quaint Surrey Village, it’s the perfect setting for Holly and Christopher’s dream Christmas wedding. But instead of enjoying mince…
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Death At Eden’s End By Jo Allen – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A brand new DCI Jude Satterthwaite crime mystery from the best selling Jo Allen. When one-hundred-year-old Violet Ross is found dead at Eden’s End, a luxury care home hidden in a secluded nook of the Lake District’s Eden Valley it’s tragic, of course, but not unexpected. Except for the instantly recognisable look in her…
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* COVER REVEAL * for Bella by R.M. Francis
Welcome to the COVER REVEAL for Bella by RM Francis. But first a little about the book…. PUBLISHERS BLURB A spectre has haunted Netherton for generations. Everyone has a theory, no one has an answer. The woods that frame the housing estate uncover a series of heinous acts, drawing onlookers in to a space…
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The Vagabond King by Jodie Bond – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Threon, the Vagabond King, is torn from a life in the palace by raiders and forced to scrape a living on the streets of a foreign land. Meeting a witch from distant mountains, a rebel soldier and a woman cursed by a god, he seeks retribution through a quest to reclaim his home…
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Something To Tell You by David Edwards – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Something to Tell You follows the two families of Bert Leinster and his best friend Sam Murray, as the earth comes under bombardment by a Higgs Boson particle storm. The Central Control of the World council insists that survival depends on living underground, protected by The Envelope. As CCOW persuades humankind to hide…
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First In The Fight by Helen Antrobus and Andrew Simcock – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Emmeline Pankhurst stands proudly in St Peter’s Square, but she stands for so many more… First in the Fight tells the compelling stories of the twenty women featured on the Our Emmeline statue long-list. Author Helen Antrobus brings to life the achievements of these radical Manchester women alongside beautiful illustrations by the Women…
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Leo And The Lightning Dragons by Gill White – Children’s Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Gill White wrote this book for her son Leo, who was born with Ohtahara Syndrome, an extremely rare form of epilepsy. Fifty percent of children diagnosed with Ohtahara Syndrome do not live past their second birthday. Leo is now three and still battling in the face of adversity. Gill wrote the story before…
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All The Wrong Places by Joy Fielding – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB You always know who you’re meeting online . . . don’t you? Four women decide to explore online dating, downloading an app that promises they will swipe their way to love and happiness. But not everyone is who they seem online. Hidden behind a perfect smile and charming humour, one man appears to…
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The Blood Acre by RJ Mitchell – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Fresh from his exploits in The Shift, Constable Angus Thoroughgood finds himself assigned to Community Policing in the crime-ridden Briarknock area of Glasgow – an area known for its horrific drugs problem, violent petty crime, and unemployment. It’s also home to The Creepers, a notorious team of housebreakers whose reign of terror must…
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Poetry For Christmas And Other Beginnings chosen by Orna Ross – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The mid-winter holiday provides the perfect space to indulge the pleasure of poetry and in this pamphlet, you’ll find a poem for each of the twelve days of that holiday season. All these Christmas poems circle around the story we’ve been telling for 2000 years about what happened in Bethlehem on a certain…
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Deathly Affair by Leigh Russell – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Four dead bodies. But who is guilty in this deadly web of secrecy and lies? When a homeless man is murdered, Detective Sergeant Geraldine Steel is disturbed by the coldblooded nature of the crime. With the discovery of a second victim, the police hunt for a killer whose motive is as elusive as…
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Murder At The Dolphin Hotel by Helena Dixon – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A room with a view… to murder June 1933. Independent young Kitty Underhay has been left in charge of her family’s hotel, The Dolphin, on the tranquil English coast. She’s expecting her days at the bustling resort to be filled with comfortable chatter with chambermaids as they polish the mahogany desk and glittering…
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You Can Change The World by Margaret Rooke – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB **Joint Gold Winner of the Moonbeam Multicultural Non-Fiction Award 2019** This inspirational book tells the stories of more than 50 of today’s teenagers who’ve dared to change the world they live in. It’s been written to show other teens they can do the same. Bestselling author Margaret Rooke asks teens about their experiences…
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Shadow by James Swallow – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB From the Sunday Times bestselling author of NOMAD and EXILE, things are about to go viral for Marc Dane in his most dangerous adventure yet . . . Marc Dane is Britain’s answer to Jason Bourne, and it is about to go viral in his most thrilling and dangerous adventure yet. . .…
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Gone by Leona Deakin – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Four strangers are missing. Left at their last-known locations are birthday cards that read: YOUR GIFT IS THE GAME DARE TO PLAY? The police aren’t worried – it’s just a game. But the families are frantic, and psychologist and private detective Dr Augusta Bloom is persuaded to investigate. As she delves into the…
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Pax by John Harvey – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB When artist Stephen Bloodsmith creates a series of images inspired by Rubens’ trip to London in 1629, he enters a historical world of suspicion and intrigue. But will the manipulations he portrays in art spill over into the real world? When he practises deception inside his own marriage, falling in love with his…
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Dark Hollows by Steve Frech – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Your past is catching up with you. Jacob Reese enjoys the quiet life, running a coffee shop and renting out his cottage in The Hollows, Vermont. But the calm is shattered when a woman who looks eerily similar to his ex-girlfriend Laura turns up to stay in the cottage, and leaves a mysterious…
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Christmas Wreath
My first attempt at a homemade Christmas Wreath……now on the hunt for holly with berries!
White Tulip Resin 