⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] “He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monsterAnd when you gaze long into an abyss then the abyss also gazes into you”. With those words from philosopher Nietzsche, we get a glimpse into the soul of Detective Sergeant…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] “The Five Things” is an evocative, gentle book that wraps you up and pulls you into its beguiling world. We first meet Wendy, the main protagonist and our narrator, when she is a young child, aged around nine, living in the South of England in a small…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] What could be better than to be by the sea, the beaches with “long swathes of golden looking pebbles”, a glass of chilled wine, freshly baked “burek”, and the shimmer of the evening ahead of you - on holiday on the lovely Croatian island of Brac. Or…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] The third installment in the “Sam Applewhite” series, this madly manic romp has Sam, - once again inadvertently enmeshed in a labyrinth of criminal activity - fighting for her life, scouting out stolen antiques and staring down Hugh, a rangy elderly tiger. All of this mayhem takes…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] Even more uproarious than Sealfinger, the first in the Sam Applewhite series, the follow-up novel Doggerland is full-on chuckle-out-loud delightful - think P.G Wodehouse populated with homicidal maniacs, woolly mammoths, Viking misfits, and British pensioners; cavorting over the ancient lands of Doggerland, buried deep within the wintry…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2 [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] “Sealfinger”, the first in the “Sam Applewhite” series is a one-of-a-kind smorgasbord of crime that is laugh-out-loud hilarious, totally engaging, and incredibly horrific (in a funny way). Based in the seasonal mayhem of Skegness, Lincolnshire, Sam Applewhite, is a tough, level-headed wonder who works for a…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2 [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] What fun! The stories in this wonderful book are all “backstories” - they tell the tale of someone we know; someone who is famous, (or infamous), for some talent they have, or something they may have accomplished, or in some cases, something that was done to…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] I had no idea what to expect on approaching this book - and ended up being totally blown away by it. A collection of eight stories created by the unique voices of a set of authors on the spectrum for autism, this book represents an exciting foray…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2 [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] Like sinking down on a pillowy featherbed, from the very first pages this book enveloped me. Layered with richly textured characters, (and reminiscent to me of reading Joanna Trollope, or even Kate Atkinson) this lovely book reminds us of the power of emotional connection to heal…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] An intimate and emotional character-driven saga that works it’s way deep inside your heart - “What we carry” is a heart-wrenching story of grief, of loss, and of the patterns we learn early in life to manage our pain that can distort and warp our line-of-sight to…