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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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Into Thin Air – S. E. Durrant

Published By: Nosy CrowPages: 256Released On: 13/08/2026Reading Age: 9-12 11-year-old Luna dreams of becoming an astronaut and astronauts need to remain calm in a crisis… She knows for certain that the International Space Station will be over their house in ten days, so Dad will definitely be home by then. Won’t he? But Dad left…

Hiroshima, 8:15 – Kiyoshi Tanimoto

Published By: Ebury PressPages: 256Released On: 06/08/2026 The whole city was covered with dark clouds, and conflagrations were breaking out in various directions. Could all of this have happened at once? It was then that black drops of rain, as big as blackberries, began to fall – rain caused by the atomic bomb. I wondered…

No Light but the Stars – Lindsay Jayne Ashford

Published By: Lake UnionPages: 253Released On: 01/08/2026 In 1941, Violet Rookwood and her mother flee war-torn London for a Cornwall farm owned by their family. There, under the floorboards of her bedroom, Violet finds a journal written by a Catholic woman more than three hundred years ago, confessing to a forbidden love. In 1606, on…

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