⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [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”] Ever since I read my first novel by Rosamund Pilcher, decades ago now, I have been in love with books based in Cornwall. This book is no exception. Introducing Tilly Barwise, one of the most endearingly original “battle maidens” of WWII, and our first protagonist. Tilly’s story…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] Right to Kill is an intense, intelligent, and totally absorbing British police procedural - one of the very best I’ve read in a long while. From the first pages of this book we are dropped into a situation that quickly unleashes a horrifying and deeply chilling homicide,…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] My stop today on the #RandomThingsTours blog tour for #AstralTravel by @ElizabethBaines Stories. Within Stories. Within other stories. This brilliant book is about the stories we tell ourselves, how we learn to handle the realities we cannot escape from, and exactly how much of our truest selves…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] Prepare to greet “Jane Austen meets Agatha Christie” in the delightful novel “Murder at Rosings”, by Annette Purdey Pugh, which was published by Honno on 17 June 2021. Taking off where Pride and Prejudice left off, it doesn’t take long for us to be drawn right back…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] My stop today on the @RandomThingsTour #BlogTour for #TheMaidens Just, wow! Another home run from the Master of the crazy-twist-ending-out-of-nowhere, I admit I did not see this one coming (although I did get part of the way there…) A wonderful mixture of character-driven psychology, gruesome Greek mythology,…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Today am on the HQ Book tour, reviewing the book “Out of Sight” by Paul Gitsham which was just released on June 4, 2021 and is Book 7 in the DCI Warren Jones series. (Note: This is the first book I read in this series, and I enjoyed it…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Stephen Connor is a cop, a man who feels himself to be often misunderstood, and yet does his best to do the right thing, as he is, at the end of the day, including mistakes and all the messiness around them, “an honorable man, in a difficult job”. In…