Title: Breastrokes Author: Margaux Vailleron Genre: Literary Fiction Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publication Date: 9th May 2024 Rating: 4/5 Cover: Summary: A novel on consent told in five acts over the course of one weekend. Cloe and Gertrude and the Jenkins-Bell sisters, Mathilde and Sarah, have never met. They are strangers who share a city.It is … Continue reading Breaststrokes by Margaux Vailleron – Blog Tour Review
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Hold Back the Night by Jessica Moor – Blog Tour Review
Title: Hold Back the Night Author: Jessica Moor Genre: Literary Fiction Publisher: Manilla Press Publication Date: 9th May 2024 Rating: 5/5 Cover: Book Summary: From the Observer debut novelist of the year, comes a blistering, heart-wrenching new novel of complicity and atonement, delving into one nurse's experience of the little-known history of conversion therapy and the heart-breaking … Continue reading Hold Back the Night by Jessica Moor – Blog Tour Review
What Everyone Knows About Britain* (*Except the British) by Michael Peel – Blog Tour Review
Title: What Everyone Knows About Britain* (*Except the British) Author: Michael Peel Genre: Nonfiction Publisher: Monoray / Octopus Publication Date: 25th April 2024 Rating: 4/5 Cover: Summary: How do you see Britain? That might depend on your point of view, and as long time British foreign correspondent, Michael Peel has come to understand, it can … Continue reading What Everyone Knows About Britain* (*Except the British) by Michael Peel – Blog Tour Review
One of Us Knows by Alyssa Cole – Blog Tour Review
Title: One of Us Knows Author: Alyssa Cole Genre: Thriller Publisher: William Morrow / Harper360 Publication Date: 25th April 2024 Rating: 4/5 Cover: Summary: From the critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling author of When No One Is Watching comes a riveting thriller about the new caretaker of a historic estate who finds herself trapped on an island with … Continue reading One of Us Knows by Alyssa Cole – Blog Tour Review
Last Witness by Lucie Whitehouse – Book Review
Title: Last Witness Author: Lucie Whitehouse Genre: Crime/Thriller Publisher: Orion Publication Date: 25th April 2024 Rating: 5/5 Cover: Book Summary: One murder, three families destroyedAnd a detective guilty of a crime of her own When 18-year-old Ben Renshaw is found dead in city woodland, DCI Robin Lyons is plunged into one of Birmingham's most controversial … Continue reading Last Witness by Lucie Whitehouse – Book Review
Clickbait by L. C. North – Blog Tour Review
Title: Clickbait Author: L. C. North Genre: Thriller Publisher: Bantam Publication Date: 11th April 2024 Rating: 4/5 Cover: Book Summary: 'We're not famous anymore. We're notorious.' For over a decade, the Lancasters were celebrity royalty, with millions tuning in every week to watch their reality show, Living with the Lancasters. But then an old video emerges … Continue reading Clickbait by L. C. North – Blog Tour Review
Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang – Book Review
Title: Yellowface Author: Rebecca F. Kuang Genre: Thriller Publisher: The Borough Press Rating: 5/5 Cover: Book Summary: THIS IS ONE HELL OF A STORY. IT’S JUST NOT HERS TO TELL. When failed writer June Hayward witnesses her rival Athena Liu die in a freak accident, she sees her opportunity… and takes it. So what if … Continue reading Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang – Book Review
The Divorcées by Rowan Beaird – Blog Tour Review
Title: The Divorcées Author: Rowan Beaird Genre: Literary Fiction Publisher: Manilla Press Publication Date: 28th March 2024 Rating: 4/5 Cover: Summary: Lois Saunders thought that marrying the right man would finally cure her loneliness. But as picture-perfect as her husband is, she is suffocating in their loveless marriage. In 1951, though, unhappiness is hardly grounds … Continue reading The Divorcées by Rowan Beaird – Blog Tour Review
Clara Reads Proust by Stéphane Carlier, translated by Polly Mackintosh – Blog Tour Review
Title: Clara Reads Proust Author: Stéphane Carlier Translator: Polly Mackintosh Genre: Fiction Publisher: Gallic Books Rating: 4.5/5 Cover: Summary: A tender and witty coming-of-age story about the power of literature to inspire new beginnings, peppered with a cast of quirky characters and a unique heroine. Clara is a hairdresser at Cindy Coiffure, a sleepy French … Continue reading Clara Reads Proust by Stéphane Carlier, translated by Polly Mackintosh – Blog Tour Review
Hotel Arcadia by Sunny Singh – Blog Tour Review
Title: Hotel Arcadia Author: Sunny Singh Genre: Thriller Publisher: Magpie, Point Blank Crime Publication Date: 21st March 2024 Rating: 4/5 Cover: Summary: A high octane thriller, capturing the extraordinary capacity of humans to retain compassion in extreme circumstances Sam is a war photographer, famous for her hauntingly beautiful pictures of the dead. After a particularly … Continue reading Hotel Arcadia by Sunny Singh – Blog Tour Review
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