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Review: Luminous brings Kristy Fairlamb’s YA thriller series to a heart-stopping end

13 Saturday Jun 2020

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Lucy Piper is both cursed and blessed with a wonderful gift – she possesses the horrifying ability to resurrect real-life tragic events in her nightmares, reliving over and over, as if she were there, the last few moments before the victim takes their final breath.

But, crucially, she can change the ending – so theplane crash never happens, the swimmer doesn’t drown and the car accident is averted.

But Lucy is living death by night and fearing sleep – and her dreams – by day.

It’s a hard burden for a teen and only her grandmother seems to understand what she’s going through. Continue reading →

Review: Cloth of Grace brings Rachel J Bonner’s Choices and Consequences series to a cozy end.

28 Friday Feb 2020

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Is there such a thing as a cozy romantic thriller?

Daft question.

Because Weave of Love and Cloth of Grace, books three and four in Rachel Bonner’s Choices and Consequences series, definitely fall into that category.

And, though the coziness might not be to everyone’s taste, others will certainly enjoy a smooth-as-chocolate read.

Both are set in a post-apocalyptic world and Continue reading →

Review: Sparkling writing from Zoe May in pacey rom-com When Polly Met Olly

25 Tuesday Feb 2020

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Oh dear! When I realised Polly, twenty-something heroine of Zoe May’s rom-com When Polly Met Olly, was falling for forty-plus Olly, I just wanted to scream: ‘Run, Polly. Run.’

Because, sorry, and I know love has no age limits, AND, there are lots of very happy real-life cross generational relationships, AND, yes, I’m being ageist, but, for me, there’s something slightly ‘off’ about dating someone old enough to be your father.

Or young enough to be your child. Continue reading →

News: Make a date and meet the authors at Bourne Old Town Hall

10 Monday Feb 2020

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Authors Sue Featherstone and Susan Pape are hoping for multiple dates with new readers when they take part in a Read Dating event at The Old Town Hall in Bourne on February 15th.

Based on the popular speed dating format, the session features a get-together of around ten authors. Readers will spend ten minutes with each writer, finding out about their books, their writing and their inspirations.

The event, which is organised by the team behind Deepings Literary Festival, takes place between 4pm and 5.30pm.

Other authors who’ll be attending include: Graeme Cumming, Ross Greenwood, Lizzie Lamb and Tracey Scott-Townsend.

If you happen to be in the area, please come and say hello. Tickets are only £2.50 and include a cup of tea or coffee.

Click here for tickets.

Review: MA Comley delivers a nail-biting finish in Criminal Actions, new addition to the Hero crime series

19 Sunday Jan 2020

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Surprise is the word that best sums up my reaction to Criminal Actions, fifth book in the DI Hero Nelson crime series by NY Times and USA Today best-selling author MA Comley.

It was altogether darker and more twisted and nastier than expected.

Does that matter?

That’s a toughie.

A crime novel is, by definition, about horrible things happening to people. And I’ve read lots of other thrillers where the body count and the violence ratio has been much higher.

Somehow, though, based on reviews I’ve read elsewhere about other books by Comley, I’d expected something a little more cozy – not a description that, in any shape or form, could be applied to Criminal Actions, which explores some very dark themes. Continue reading →

Review: Julie Butterfield cooks up a heart-warming rom-com with Eve’s Christmas

08 Sunday Dec 2019

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It’s the time of year when even the most uncommitted Earth-Mother type begins to feel a bit stressed about making sure everything is nice for Christmas.

But few of us would go to the lengths of Eve Crowther, title character of Julie Butterfield’s seasonal romantic comedy Eve’s Christmas, who’s decided she needs to inject a little sparkle into the family’s usual laid back and slightly shabby holiday.

Of course, it’s no coincidence Eve’s change of heart coincides with a visit from husband Richard’s oldest friend, Abby, who, newly single, has decided to spend ALL twelve days of Christmas with the Crowthers. Continue reading →

Review: Lucy Mathers Goes Back to Work is a chuckle-filled page turner

22 Friday Nov 2019

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It’s not often you meet a book character and think: ‘Oh, I’ve walked in your shoes.’

Well, not the sky-high ones favoured by Lucy Mathers, in Julie Butterfield’s delightful romantic comedy Lucy Mathers Goes Back to Work.

But, in all other respects, Lucy – her separation anxiety, her professional insecurities and general just-about-coping-ness – could have been me.

And, probably, every other woman returning to work after children.

Poor old Lucy doesn’t even want to go back to her old job at Simcock & Bright, where she was once the golden girl.

She’s perfectly happy being a stay-at-home mum and doesn’t regret swapping her Louboutins and high profile clients for rabbit slippers and spending her day making crustless sandwiches for her two adorable children.

But, when her when her husband is suddenly made redundant, there’s panic in the Mathers’ household.

With a mortgage the size of the national debt and a credit card balance that’s in danger of toppling, Lucy reluctantly decides she must return to work. Continue reading →

Meet  the author: Outreach author Shelly Berry shares a guilty secret…

16 Saturday Nov 2019

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Find out why author Shelly Berry is grateful she never acted on an office crush and how the experience inspired the plot of her new novel Outreach.

Also learn why her days as a girl guide mean she always likes to ‘Be Prepared’ and why she’s worrying about moving house.

And don’t miss out on a chance (UK entrants only) to win a paperback copy of Outreach. Continue reading →

Review: The Honeysuckle Dream by Kate Frost takes readers on a heart-warming trip

10 Sunday Nov 2019

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I’ve been spending a lot of time in Norfolk recently – the new go-to county for authors.

And I’m enjoying my little trips – including the most recent one, courtesy of Kate Frost, and her novel The Honeysuckle Dream, which also includes stop-offs in Bristol, Sheffield, Pembrokeshire and Cephalonia (where the weather was warmer than at all the other destinations).

Did I say enjoying?

Actually, by chapter two I was fizzing with fury on behalf of poor betrayed, pregnant nineteen-year-old Leila, whose mother tells her the much older, Continue reading →

Review: Weave of Love, a tale of post-apocalyptic choices and consequences from Rachel J. Bonner

27 Sunday Oct 2019

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In a futuristic world, ripped apart by a devastating war, Leonie hovers on the brink of death after harnessing her extra-ordinary mental powers to save the victims of a horrible explosion.

Husband Perry, a former monk, who showed Leonie how to harness those powers, is wracked with guilt.

And, though, he knows she is receiving the best possible care from his former brothers at the monastery of the House of St Peter, he is tortured with thoughts of ‘what if?’

Meanwhile, his mentor, and Leonie’s adopted Continue reading →

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