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Read an extract: Christmas Miracles at the Little Log Cabin by Helen J Rolfe

14 Friday Dec 2018

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Do you believe in Christmas Miracles?

We’ve a delicious extract for you to read from Helen J Rolfe’s heart-warming festive romance, Christmas Miracles at the Little Log Cabin.

Here’s what the blurb has to say about the book:

Holly is looking for a change and even though not everyone agrees with her career choices, she’s determined there’s more to this life than the long hours she works as an editor in New York City.

What she doesn’t expect is to meet Mitch, a recluse who’s hiding more than she realises.

Mitch does all he can to avoid human contact, spending his days in the little log cabin out in the woods behind Inglenook Falls where he owns a Christmas tree farm, so when Holly falls into his life, he’s not sure how to react.

All he knows is that something needs to change if he ever wants to get his life back on track. Continue reading →

Review: Hope and Christmas Spirit galore in Susan Buchanan’s seasonal story

10 Monday Dec 2018

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Everyone needs the right mix of Hope and Christmas Spirit and the mysterious Natalie Hope has both in abundance.

She’s a woman on a mission: every December she has just 24 days to make sure four unhappy people have a Christmas to remember.

This year she’s landed in the small town of Winstanton, twenty miles north of Glasgow, and, in next to no time, she’s working her magic: re-uniting families, bringing lovers together and generally stirring things up.

It’s all a bit clichéd but who cares? Continue reading →

Review: Isa Ritchie’s Fishing with Māui is a multi-layered, multi-voiced delight

07 Wednesday Nov 2018

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Fishing for Maui - Front - (RGB) (002)Every so often you get to the end of a book and think: ‘I’d better read that again.’

Fishing with Māui, by Wellington-based author Isa Ritchie, is one such book.

I turned the last page a couple of days ago and I’m still not sure I’ve picked up on all the nuances or that I’ve properly understood what Ritchie was trying to say about the importance of family and tradition; the place of religion (or not!); and the difficulties of being comfortable in your own skin. Continue reading →

Review: Corruption! marks a twisty end to Elizabeth Dulcie’s  Suzanne Jones series

05 Friday Oct 2018

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CORRUPTION_FRONT_CMYK (002)The phrase ‘O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive…’ might have been coined especially for Elizabeth Dulcie’s new thriller Corruption!

It wasn’t, of course, the quote is a line from Sir Walter Scott’s 1808 poem, Marmion, but it does provide a perfect summary of the plot of this third, and final instalment, of Dulcie’s Suzanne Jones series.

Corruption! is a more-ish deliciously twisty tangle of deception and false trails and crooks masquerading as caring family men. Continue reading →

Review: Join Isabella May on a cheery trip to the sunshine coast of Costa del Churros

23 Sunday Sep 2018

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Costa Del Churros Cover (002)David Bowie certainly knew what he was talking about when he penned the line: ‘Put on your red shoes and dance…’

Because as beleaguered ex-pat Brits Belinda, Julia, Laura and Georgina discover in Isabella May’s sunny third novel Costa del Churros, it really is possible to dance your troubles away.

Or, at least, in the case of the four friends, confidence on the dance floor translates into an ability to face head on the issues that are making their lives a misery.

And, boy, despite the happy faces they try and present to the world, all four women are seriously unhappy. Continue reading →

Review: Jackie Carreira’s frontline women NOT Sleeping Through War

09 Sunday Sep 2018

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Book coverIt is a truth NEVER universally acknowledged but women are ALWAYS in the frontline of war.

Whether it’s a war on terror or poverty or internal or external wars against those with differing political, ideological or religious beliefs, women are always dodging bullets fired by men.

And Sleeping Through War is a moving tribute by author Jackie Carreira to the women’s stories that are forgotten in the history books.

It is 1968 and three women are fighting to survive their own personal battleground. Continue reading →

Meet the author: introducing Paula Houseman and Odyssey in a Teacup

27 Monday Aug 2018

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Paula HousemanAuthor Paula Houseman was once a graphic designer.

But when the temptation to include ‘the finger’ as part of a logo for a forward-moving women’s company proved too much, she knew it was time to give up design.

Instead, she took up writing.

Her love of satire, combined with a fondness for double entendres, means her novels – earthy chick lit and romantic comedy – are a tad Monty Pythonesque.

‘But,’ says Houseman, whose Ruth Roth series features a humourless schoolmarm with Continue reading →

Review: Megan Mayfair packs a summer treat with romantic comedy The Things We Leave Unsaid

22 Wednesday Aug 2018

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Cover (002)There are some things that can’t be left unsaid. If you’re still looking for a last-minute summer holiday read, get yourself a copy of Megan Mayfair’s romance The Things We Leave Unsaid.

On one level, it’s a light, sparky read, peppered with wry asides.

Take this example: Clare, one of the two women at the heart of the story, was a virgin when she married her husband Pete.

Her boss, and new best friend, Tessa, who’s had lots of boyfriends but never been in love, prefers ‘to try before she buys, but then again, she didn’t think she would ever buy – so, sort of try before she leased? Illegal sub-let?’

Okay, not laugh-out-loud funny but it tickled my funny-bone. Continue reading →

Read an extract: An essential guide to London – global epicentre of Bespokist consciousness, community and culture

09 Thursday Aug 2018

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The_Bespokist_Society_Guide_to_London_COVER Large (002)And now for something completely different: The Bespokist Society Guide to…London

“sparse… some glaring omissions” FoodPorn London

“only page 23 is of mild interest” http://www.londonpetlover.com

“Wow!!! A genuinely bespoke city guide!!!” Tommy Sponge, chairman, The Bespokist Society

You have in your hands one of the most curated city guides ever created. As the first travel book produced by Continue reading →

Review: Audrey Davies wraps up Hattie Hastings trilogy with a frothy flourish

30 Monday Jul 2018

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CoverIf you’ve already read the first two parts in the wickedly funny Hattie Hastings trilogy by Audrey Davis, you don’t need me to tell you The Haunting of Hattie Hastings Part Three is an equal delight.

And, if you haven’t read the series openers, why not?

You’re missing a treat.

Because, despite what can only be described as an ever so slightly bonkers plot – Hattie’s dead husband, Gary keeps popping back from the after-life to ensure his Continue reading →

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