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Here you will find my own personal reviews of purchased books, gifted books, and advanced reader copies. I cover all genres of fiction books, plus non-fiction, classics and poetry.

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Little Darlings – Hannah King

Published By: No Exit PressPages: 352Released On: 15/09/2026 January 2023. Cara’s great-aunt Audrey has died, and her husband Tony needs her presence at the funeral. It will be a stretch for Cara, whose every day is an emotional challenge, a challenge which is getting harder as her daughter’s tenth birthday approaches. But with her family…

Do You See What I See? – Peter Swanson

Published By: FaberPages: 160Released On: 24/09/2026 Welcome to Christmas at Grey Gables, where everyone’s a suspect 🎄 Struggling mystery writer Nicholas Child is commissioned to help another writer finish the overdue follow up to his breakout bestseller. Travelling to Grey Gables, the writer’s Cape Cod home, in the week before Christmas, he discovers a house…

Craftland: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Arts and Vanishing Trades – James Fox

Published By: VintagePages: 368Released On: 03/09/2026 (Paperback) From the Isles of Scilly to the Scottish Highlands, James Fox travels the length of Britain to seek out the country’s last great craftspeople. Stepping inside the workshops of blacksmiths and wheelwrights, cutlers and coopers, bellfounders and watchmakers, we glimpse not only our past but another way of…

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