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
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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 Shadow Key by Susan Stokes-Chapman – Book Review
Title: The Shadow Key Author: Susan Stokes-Chapman Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Harvill Secker Publication Date: 18th April 2024 Rating: 5/5 Cover: Summary: There's something mysterious about the village of Penhelyg. Will unlocking its truth bring light or darkness?Meirionydd, 1783. Dr Henry Talbot has been dismissed from his post in London. The only job he can … Continue reading The Shadow Key by Susan Stokes-Chapman – Book Review
The Women of Troy by Pat Barker – Book Review
Title: The Women of Troy Author: Pat Barker Genre: Mythology, Literary Fiction Publisher: Penguin Rating: 4/5 Cover: Summary: Troy has fallen. The Greeks have won their bitter war. They can return home as victors - all they need is a good wind to lift their sails. But the wind has vanished, the seas becalmed by … Continue reading The Women of Troy by Pat Barker – Book Review
The Hunter by Tana French – Book Review
Title: The Hunter Author: Tana French Genre: Thriller/Suspense Publisher: Viking Publication Date: 7th March 2024 Rating: 5/5 Cover: Summary: It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in the village. They’re coming for gold. What they bring is trouble.Cal Hooper was a Chicago detective, till he moved to the West of Ireland looking for peace. … Continue reading The Hunter by Tana French – Book 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
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