Category Archives: Fiction

No-One Saw a Thing – Andrea Mara

Published By: Random HousePages: 400Released On: 11/05/2023 No one saw it happen.You stand on a crowded tube platform in London. Your two little girls jump on the train ahead of you. As you try to join them, the doors slide shut and the train moves away, leaving you behind.Everyone is lying.By the time you getContinue reading “No-One Saw a Thing – Andrea Mara”

One Moment – Becky Hunter

Published By: CorvusPages: 352Released On: 02/03/2023 The day Scarlett dies should have been one of the most important of her life. It doesn’t feel fair that she’ll never have the chance to fulfil her dreams. And now, she’s still … here – wherever here is – watching the ripple effect of her death on the lives of those sheContinue reading “One Moment – Becky Hunter”

Summer Nights at the Starfish Café – Jessica Redland

Published By: BoldwoodPages: 408Released On: 06/04/2023 As her summer wedding to Jake approaches, Hollie is excited for their new beginning as a family. But when some unexpected news threatens the future she and Jake had hoped for, Hollie will need to find the strength to overcome heartache once more.A fragile heart….Single mum, Kerry, loves herContinue reading “Summer Nights at the Starfish Café – Jessica Redland”

*UPDATED* The Sweetpea Series – CJ Skuse

SweetpeaPublished By: HQPages: 384Released On: 20/04/2017 In BloomPublished By: HQPages: 384Released On: 09/08/2018 Dead HeadPublished By: HQPages: 480Released On: 18/02/2021 I wasn’t planning on reviewing these books as they were just books for me to read, rather than books set out to be reviewed. But they are just too splendid not to shout about. JustContinue reading “*UPDATED* The Sweetpea Series – CJ Skuse”

In The Lives of Puppets – TJ Klune

Published By: Pan MacmillanPages: 432Released On: 25/04/2023 In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots–fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They’re a family, hidden and safe. Continue reading “In The Lives of Puppets – TJ Klune”

The Woolworths Girl’s Promise – Elaine Everest

Published By: Pan MacmillanPage: 368Released On: 16/03/2023 After losing her beloved fiancé at Ypres in 1917, seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Billington faces a lonely future estranged from her upper-class parents due to her association with Charlie Sayers and his working-class family. No longer able to live under her parent’s roof she is taken in by Charlie’s father,Continue reading “The Woolworths Girl’s Promise – Elaine Everest”

The Lost Whale – Hannah Gold

Published By: HarperCollins ChildrenPages: 320Released On: 31/03/2022 What if you could communicate with a whale? Rio has been sent to live with a grandmother he barely knows in California, while his mum is in hospital back home. Alone and adrift, the only thing that makes him smile is joining his new friend Marina on herContinue reading “The Lost Whale – Hannah Gold”

The Last Bear – Hannah Gold

Published By: HarperCollinsPages: 288Released On: 02/02/2021 There are no polar bears left on Bear Island. At least, that’s what April’s father tells her when his scientific research takes them to this remote Arctic outpost for six months. But one endless summer night, April meets one. He is starving, lonely and a long way from home.Continue reading “The Last Bear – Hannah Gold”

Looking Glass Sound – Catriona Ward

Published By: ViperPages: 352Released On: 20/04/2023 Writers are monsters. We eat everything we see… In a windswept cottage overlooking the sea, Wilder Harlow begins the last book he will ever write. It is the story of his childhood companions and the shadowy figure of the Daggerman, who stalked the New England town where they spentContinue reading “Looking Glass Sound – Catriona Ward”