Rose Interrupted – Patrice Lawrence
Patrice Lawrence has created a masterpiece of emotional storytelling that breaks your heart, ignites your fury and offers hope in Rose Interrupted that kept me up to the early hours for ‘just one more...
View ArticleThe Summer Of No Regrets- Kate Mallinder
There is so much to love about this book, it’s like a more down to Earth Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants set on the Devon coast, a tale of friendship, heartbreak, taking risks and grasping moments...
View ArticleSix for Sunday- Perfect Poolside Reads
#SixforSunday is hosted by Steph at A Little But A Lot. Every week there is a bookish-themed prompt to inspire 6 choices. This month focuses on Books and Holidays and this week the prompt is Perfect...
View ArticlePausing for WWW Wednesday 07/08
WWW Wednesday is a meme hosted by Taking on a World Of Words that simply asks three questions. Huge reading week!!!! What are you currently reading? The Ingo Chronicles: Ingo by Helen Dunmore (Harper...
View Article#20BooksOfSummer 20: The Exact Opposite Of Okay- Laura Steven
#20BooksOfSummer is an annual event hosted by Cathy Brown of 746 Books and runs from 3rd June until 3rd September With the aim to clearing a target of 5, 10 or 20 books from your TBR but with very...
View ArticleChinglish- Sue Cheung
My goodness, this is such a different and interesting teen book, perfectly placed in that awkward inbetweeny years of not really knowing oneself but hoping for meaning. Taking the diary format as an...
View ArticleTop Ten Tuesday: Books That Seem To Stay On The Shelf
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly book blogging initiative hosted by The Artsy Reader Girl with new themes each week. This weeks theme is Books On My TBR I’m Avoiding Reading and Why (maybe you’re scared of...
View ArticleEvent: Sophie Anderson in Conversation with Candy Gourlay- Blackwells Oxford.
Ok last weekend I was absolutely in tatters, I was in a quandary, in Oxford one of my favourite authors was going to be in conversation with another author whose work I have been very interested in....
View ArticleTop Ten Tuesday- My Autumn Mini-break TBR
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly book blogging initiative hosted by The Artsy Reader Girl with new themes each week. This weeks theme is Books On My Fall 2019 TBRNow I wasn't going to do this weeks prompt...
View ArticleJelly- Clare Rees
Wow this is such a boldly interesting story from Clare Rees exploring the struggles of living on a jellyfish-like creature after an apocalyptic event. It’s not quite a traditional Young Adult book even...
View ArticleRules For Vanishing – Kate Alice Marshall
Ok, I like to think that I’m actually pretty good with horror, I admittedly don’t enjoy zombie or those possessed doll/orphan/foster child type films but vampires/monsters, psychological horror, ghost...
View ArticleTop Ten Tuesday- Friends-Style Book Descriptions
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly book blogging initiative hosted by The Artsy Reader Girl with new themes each week. This weeks theme is supposed to be Books I’d Give Different Titles To but you may have...
View ArticleThrills and Scares for Halloween!
Ok there’s no shortage of horror books out there but these are just a few from MG to YA I have enjoyed and are deliciously creepy or in a few cases scare your knickers off terrifying. For someone who...
View ArticleTop Ten Tuesday – Anticipated 5-star Reads
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly book blogging initiative hosted by The Artsy Reader Girl with new themes each week. This weeks theme is Books On My TBR I Predict Will Be 5-Star Reads Ok so I’ve limited...
View ArticleThe Good Hawk- Joseph Elliott
Joseph Elliott has been delighting young children for years as an entertainer particularly beloved as Cook on CBeebies Swashbuckle and taking part in many CBeebies Pantos too, in fact if you are around...
View ArticleBlog Tour: Guest Post by Lou Abercombie author of Fig Swims the World
I am delighted to be kicking off the blog tour for Fig Swims the World by Lou Abercrombie which is a tale about a 15 year old girl who sets herself a New Year challenge of swimming around the world...
View ArticleVenom- Bex Hogan
Viper was a YA Fantasy highlight of 2019 for me, and it was an ache to wait a whole year for the follow up after seeing Marianne come into her power, take back her autonomy and seize the title of Viper...
View ArticleBlog Tour: Guest Post by Bex Hogan -Creation Stories of the Isles of Storm...
I am delighted to be taking part in the Blog Tour for Bex Hogan's Venom, the follow up to Viper and second book in the Isles of Storm and Sorrow Trilogy. Venom is deeper, darker, faster, harder and...
View ArticleBlog Tour: Asking For A Friend – Kate Mallinder
I am so delighted to be taking part in Kate Mallinder’s blog tour for her second teen/YA book Asking for a Friend. Kaye’s debut Summer of No Regrets was a highlight of my reading last year with its...
View ArticleHold Back The Tide- Melinda Salisbury
OH MY GOODNESS , no strike that OH MY GODFATHERS! Hold Back The Tide is intensely brilliant, absolutely extraordinary, compelling and captivating and it’s an absolute crime that it launched amidst the...
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