Review: Lady MacBethad by Isabelle Schuler

Publication date 2 March 2023 Standalone or series Standalone First time reading this author? Yes Why I picked this I’ve always felt Lady Macbeth was vilified for ambition that in a man of her time would have been seen as a positive, so I was interested in reading a different take on her story. Review

Review: The Space Between Us by Doug Johnstone

Publication date 2 March 2023 Standalone or series Standalone First time reading this author? No Why I picked this From the moment I heard the author mention this book at an online launch for his last Skelfs book, I knew I wanted to read it. Review copy or purchase Thank you to the author and

Review: Love Will Tear Us Apart by C.K. McDonnell

Publication date 9 February 2023 Standalone or series Series (third in The Stranger Times series) First time reading this author? No Why I picked this I love this series. Review copy or purchase Thank you to the author, publishers Transworld and NetGalley UK for access to this as an advance reader’s ebook. This is an

Review: End of Story by Louise Swanson

Publication date 23 March 2023 Standalone or series Standalone First time reading this author? Yes Why I picked this I liked the sound of it. Review copy or purchase Thank you to the author, publishers Hodder & Stoughton and NetGalley UK for access to this as an advance reader’s ebook. This is an honest and

Review: Becoming Ted by Matt Cain

A wonderful story – funny, heart-warming and full of life.

Review: The Girl in the Red Coat by Kate Hamer

Book release date: 24 February 2015 Book blurb: She is the missing girl. But she doesn’t know she’s lost. Carmel Wakeford becomes separated from her mother at a local children’s festival, and is found by a man who claims to be her estranged grandfather. He tells her that her mother has had an accident and

Review: Those People Next Door by Kia Abdullah

Book release date: 19 January 2023 Book blurb: You can choose your house. Not your neighbours. WELCOME TO YOUR DREAM HOME… Salma Khatun is extremely hopeful about Blenheim, the safe suburban development to which she, her husband and their son have just moved. Their family is in desperate need of a fresh start, and Blenheim

Review: Golden Fool by Robin Hobb

Book release date: 2 October 2002 Book blurb: Fitz has been persuaded back to court, posing as a servant to the decadent Lord Golden (who is the Fool in disguise). In secret, he will train Prince Dutiful in the magic known as the Skill. The peace remains fragile, so the diplomatic wedding between Dutiful and

Review: Metronome by Tom Watson

Book release date: 31 March 2022 Book blurb: For twelve years Aina and Whitney have been in exile on an island for a crime they committed together, tethered to a croft by pills they must take for survival every eight hours. They’ve kept busy – Aina with her garden, her jigsaw, her music; Whitney with

Review: The Last House on the Street by Diane Chamberlain

Book release date: 20 January 2022 Book blurb: A young white female student becomes involved in the fight for civil rights in North Carolina, falling in love with one of her fellow activists, a Black man, in a time and place where an interracial relationship must be hidden from family, friends and especially the reemerging