Category: blog tour
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People Of Abandoned Character by Clare Whitfield – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB What would you do if you thought you had married a murderer? He is my husband. To honour and obey. Until murder do us part. London, 1888: Tormented by the death of her secret lover, Nurse Susannah Chapman rushes into marriage to a doctor. While attracted to her adoring, younger husband, she is…
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Sword In The Storm by David Gemmell – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Born in the storm that doomed his father, Connavar grows to manhood among the mist-covered mountains of Caer Druagh, where the Rigante tribe dwell in harmony with the land and its gods. But beyond the border, across the water, an evil force is gathering strength, an unstoppable force that will change the world…
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Even If We Break by Marieke Nijkamp – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB From #1 New York Times bestselling author Marieke Nijkamp comes a shocking new thriller about a group of friends tied together by a game and the deadly weekend that tears them apart. FIVE friends go to a cabin. FOUR of them are hiding secrets. THREE years of history bind them. TWO are doomed…
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Secrets In The Dark by Darcy Coates – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Winterbourne Hall is not safe. Even as Clare and Dorran scramble to secure the ancient building against ravenous hollow ones, they face something far worse: Clare’s sister has made contact, but she’s trapped, and her oxygen is running out. Hundreds of miles separate Clare from Beth. The land between them is infested with…
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The Seven Doors by Agnes Ravatn – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB One of Norway’s most distinguished voices, Agnes Ravatn’s first novel to be published in the UK was The Bird Tribunal. It won an English PEN Translation Award, was shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and the Petrona Award, and was adapted for a BBC Book at Bedtime. She returns now with a dark,…
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Thursday Night Widows by Claudia Piñeiro – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB “An agile novel written in a language perfectly pitched for the subject matter, a ruthless dissection of a fast decaying society”—José Saramago Three bodies lie at the bottom of a swimming pool in a gated country estate near Buenos Aires. It’s Thursday night at the magnificent Scaglia house. Behind the locked gates, shielded…
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Orfeia by Joanne M. Harris – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB When you can find me an acre of land, Every sage grows merry in time, Between the ocean and the sand Then will you be united again. So begins a beautiful and tragic quest as a heartbroken mother sets out to save her lost daughter, through the realms of the real, of dream,…
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The Trials Of Koli by M. R. Carey – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Koli is looking for lost London. In a world where a journey of two miles is an odyssey, he’s going to walk two hundred. Spinner just wants peace and safety, but when her village of Mythen Rood is shaken by plague and violence she chooses a different path. Ursala from Elsewhere needs to…
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Squadron Airborne by Elleston Trevor – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB In the summer of 1940, the Battle of Britain rages in the skies over southern England. Nineteen-year-old Pilot Officer Peter Stuyckes arrives at RAF Westhill and is immediately put to the test. Based on the author’s own service as an RAF Flight Engineer,Squadron Airborne takes place over one unforgettable week that summer, depicting…
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In Sat Nav We Trust by Jack Barrow – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The book takes the form of a journey through one English county a day. Rather than having a plan, other than a rough anticlockwise direction of travel, the trip was largely spontaneous. This unplanned nature is what drives the narrative, similar to the way a MacGuffin drives a story, and opens the possibility…
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Don’t Worry, Everything Is Going To Be Amazing by Billy Moran – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Chris Pringle: simpleton, casualty or local hero? Propped up by friends, benefits and a baffling faith in his plan, he lives in a world where every day is obsessively the same: wedged in his recliner, watching murder mysteries, taking notes. Until the day a serious and peculiar crime stumps the local police –…
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A Song Of Isolation by Michael J. Malone – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Film star Amelie Hart is the darling of the silver screen, appearing on the front pages of every newspaper. But at the peak of her fame she throws it all away for a regular guy with an ordinary job. The gossip columns are aghast: what happened to the woman who turned heads wherever…
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The Interpreter From Java by Alfred Birney – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Arto Nolan is the father’s name; his son Alan strives to overcome his loathing and comprehend the man who abused him and beat his mother. His father spent his evenings typing on his Remington. Later, Alan discovers his father had been working on his memoirs. He reads about Arto’s ruthless work as an…
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Fearless by Allen Stroud – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB AD 2118. Humanity has colonised the Moon, Mars, Ceres and Europa. Captain Ellisa Shann commands Khidr, a search and rescue ship with a crew of twenty-five, tasked to assist the vast commercial freighters that supply the different solar system colonies. Shann has no legs and has taken to life in zero-g partly as…
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The Watcher by Kate Medina – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB If you see him it’s already too late… ‘A brilliant and believable female lead’ Good Housekeeping Some secrets can’t be hidden. The Fullers are the picture-perfect family, a wealthy couple with a grand home in the middle of remote woodland. But even they have something to hide – and it will prove fatal.…
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You Can Trust Me by Emma Rowley – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB If you like Clare Mackintosh, Fiona Barton, Rachel Abbott or Lisa Jewell then you will be utterly gripped by this psychological thriller with a massive twist you won’t see coming. You can trust me. But can I trust you? Olivia is the domestic goddess who has won millions of followers by sharing her…
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The Heatwave by Kate Riordan – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Under the scorching French sun, a tense homecoming unearths a long-buried family secret in this deliciously propulsive beach read of a mother’s greatest fear brought to life. Elodie was beautiful. Elodie was smart. Elodie was manipulative. Elodie is dead. When Sylvie Durand receives a letter calling her back to her crumbling family home…
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The Sentient by Nadia Afifi – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Amira Valdez is a brilliant neuroscientist trying to put her past on a religious compound behind her. But when she’s assigned to a controversial cloning project, her dreams of working in space are placed in jeopardy. Using her talents as a reader of memories, Amira uncovers a conspiracy to stop the creation of…
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The Heights by Parker Bilal – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB What starts with the gruesome discovery of a severed head on the Tube soon becomes personal for former DI Cal Drake. After one betrayal too many, Drake has abandoned the police force to become a private detective. He’s teamed up with enigmatic forensic pathologist Dr Rayhana Crane and it’s not long before the…
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Truth Be Told by Kia Abdullah – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB ARE YOU READY TO START THIS CONVERSATION? Kamran Hadid feels invincible. He attends Hampton school, an elite all-boys boarding school in London, he comes from a wealthy family, and he has a place at Oxford next year. The world is at his feet. And then a night of revelry leads to a drunken…
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