Category: Book reviews
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Pocket Hugs – For Sale -UK only though
I started a new hobby that i can do with one hand….(the melanoma has now advanced to the extent my left arm no longer works at all) and so i took up resin work. This is the result….. I make small batches and they sell out almost immediately so i may need to make bigger…
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My new hobby
Being stuck at home due to my ongoing health (stage 4 melanoma, stage T3N1 rectal cancer and neuropathy) I needed to find a hobby i could do with one hand as the other is pretty much useless now. I found epoxy resin! I can now make pretty and useful things again. I miss crochet and…
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My new hobby….
I have a new hobby, something I can do with just one hand ( the other now doesn’t work properly due to nerve damage…..caused by either, surgery, radiotherapy, treatment or my cancer pressing on nerves..doctors don’t know, and as I am trying to deal with the pain are not looking into it any further yet.…
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A big change – The Bookwormery retires.
Due to my immunotherapy treatment for my stage 4 malignant melanoma, plus 2 surgeries in the same spot and radiotherapy, again in the same place, I now have nerve damage and neuropathy. This means constant numbness, pins and needles and horrible pains which range from deep aches in my shoulder, elbow and left hand. Plus…
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The Runner by P.R. Black – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB You can’t escape him. He abducts lone joggers and forces them to run for their lives. When he catches them, he pulls out his blade… Now he’s locked away and will be in prison for years. They call him a psychopath, a murderer, the ‘Woodcutter Killer’. But what if you just found out…
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The Beresford by Will Carver – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB There’s a routine at The Beresford. For Mrs May, every day’s the same: a cup of cold, black coffee in the morning, pruning roses, checking on her tenants, wine, prayer and an afternoon nap. She never leaves the building. Abe Schwartz also lives at The Beresford. His housemate Smythe no longer does. Because…
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The Crossing by Manjeet Mann – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A trailblazing new novel about two teenagers from opposite worlds; The Crossing is a profound story of hope, grief, and the very real tragedies of the refugee crisis. Natalie’s world is falling apart. She’s just lost her mum and her brother marches the streets of Dover full of hate and anger. Swimming is…
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Girls Who Lie by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB When single mother Maríanna disappears from her home, leaving an apologetic note on the kitchen table, it is assumed that she’s taken her own life – until her body is found on the Grábrók lava fields seven months later, clearly the victim of murder. Her neglected fifteen-year-old daughter Hekla has been placed in…
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The Lies We Tell by Jane Corry – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB WHAT IF YOUR SON HAD MURDERED SOMEONE? Sarah always thought of herself and her husband, Tom, as good people. But that was before their son Freddy came home saying he’d done something terrible. Begging them not to tell the police. Soon Sarah and Tom must find out just how far they are willing…
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Mirrorland by Carole Johnstone – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB With the startling twists of Gone Girl and the haunting emotional power of Room, Mirrorland is a thrilling work of psychological suspense about twin sisters, the man they both love, and the dark childhood they can’t leave behind. Cat lives in Los Angeles, far away from 36 Westeryk Road, the imposing gothic house…
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One Last Time by Helga Flatland – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Anne’s life is rushing to an unexpected and untimely end. But her diagnosis of terminal cancer isn’t just a shock for her – and for her daughter Sigrid and granddaughter Mia – it shines a spotlight onto their fractured and uncomfortable relationships. A spur-of-the moment trip to France acts as a catalyst for…
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Preacher Boy by GWYN GB – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB IT’S TIME FOR A NEW CRIME MYSTERY HERO Dr Harrison Lane is everything you wouldn’t expect from a man with a psychology doctorate. For victims, he’s everything they need. As Head of the Metropolitan Police’s Ritualistic Behavioural Crime Unit, Dr Harrison Lane knows his Voodoo from his Aum Shinrikyo and a Satanist from…
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Falling by TJ Newman – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die. The only way the family will survive is if…
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Fresh Water For Flowers by Valérie Perrin – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Her daily life is lived to the rhythms of the hilarious and touching confidences of random visitors and her colleagues—three gravediggers, three groundskeepers, and a priest. Violette’s routine is disrupted one day by the arrival of police chief Julien…
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This is How We Are Human by Louise Beech – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Sebastian James Murphy is twenty years, six months and two days old. He loves swimming, fried eggs and Billy Ocean. Sebastian is autistic. And lonely. Veronica wants her son Sebastian to be happy, and she wants the world to accept him for who he is. She is also thinking about paying a professional…
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No Going Back by Robert Crouch – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB What you don’t do will torment you. When journalist Harry Lawson is pulled from a private swimming pool, his drowning looks like a tragic accident, but for one small detail – he knew someone was going to kill him. The three text messages he fired off to an old flame the night before…
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Everything Happens For A Reason by Katie Allen – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Mum-to-be Rachel did everything right, but it all went wrong. Her son, Luke, was stillborn and she finds herself on maternity leave without a baby, trying to make sense of her loss. When a misguided well-wisher tells her that ‘everything happens for a reason’, she becomes obsessed with finding that reason, driven by…
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Echoes Of Home by M. L. Rayner – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB After accepting a generous opportunity to start afresh, Leslie Wills, a young man from Stoke-on-Trent, eagerly begins his long-distance journey to the Scottish Highlands of Elphin, a settled village that sits huddled amongst the dominating mountains. Its people are welcoming, and the beauty of the land is great. But deep within its Highland…
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Matilda Windsor is Coming Home by Anne Goodwin – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB In the dying days of the old asylums, three paths intersect. Henry was only a boy when he waved goodbye to his glamorous grown-up sister; approaching sixty, his life is still on hold as he awaits her return. As a high-society hostess renowned for her recitals, Matty’s burden weighs heavily upon her, but…
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Soy Wax Melts
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White Tulip Resin 