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”

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 “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”

Don’t Believe the Hype – Natalie Lewis

Published By: Hodder and StoughtonPages: 352Released On: 13/04/2023 The world of fashion is supposed to be glamorous . . . isn’t it? Meet Frankie Marks: the world’s least likely fashion PR. She got the job by fluke, she doesn’t know the first thing about designers, she’s always hungry, and she struggles to think before sheContinue reading “Don’t Believe the Hype – Natalie Lewis”

Something New at the Borrow a Bookshop – Kiley Dunbar

Published By: HeraPages: 336Released On: 23/03/2023 The Borrow-a-Bookshop is recovering, seven months on from the winter flood that destroyed all its stock, and the latest temporary bookseller, Joy Foley, arrives in Clove Lore with her daughter, five-year-old Radia Pearl. As a tech expert, she’ll be working on dragging the Bookshop into the twenty-first century. ButContinue reading “Something New at the Borrow a Bookshop – Kiley Dunbar”

Death and the Conjuror – Tom Mead

Published By: Head of ZeusPages: 272Released On: 02/02/2023 1936, London. A celebrity psychiatrist is discovered dead in his locked study. There seems to be no way a killer could have escaped unseen. There are no clues, no witnesses, and no evidence of the murder weapon. Stumped by the confounding scene, Inspector Flint, the Scotland YardContinue reading “Death and the Conjuror – Tom Mead”