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Author : Jo FurnissTitle : Killer TwistPages : 380Publisher : Zaffre UKPublication date : 27th August, 2026Source : Digital Review Copy Crime writer Aggie Catchlove can never forget how celebrity author Kit Stirling stole her famous ‘twist’. When fellow novelist Jakob Hök learns Kit’s next book is a rip-off of his long-running series at the… Read more →
Hosted by Lipsy Lost and Found, my Wednesday post gives you a taste of what I’m reading this week. A similar meme is run by Taking on a World of Words. Crime writer Aggie Catchlove can never forget how celebrity author Kit Stirling stole her famous ‘twist’. When fellow novelist Jakob Hök learns Kit’s next book is… Read more →
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish, which is now being hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. The rules are simple: This week’s topic is : Book Series I Want to Catch Up On (or series you’d like to start). I’m normally fairly good at keeping up… Read more →
Bit late for July’s wrap-up but I took some time off while hubby had his annual holiday. That wasn’t as enjoyable as it should have been as we spent time around the house doing bits and bobs in preparation for a project that I’ll mention in August’s wrap-up since it wasn’t finished at the end… Read more →
Author : Matt CoyneTitle : The Trouble With Sister FrancisPages : 420Publisher : Wildfire / HeadlinePublication date : 27th August, 2026Source : Digital review copy, also on preorder Sister Francis is an unlikely nun. She’s sixty, sweary, drives like a lunatic and smokes like a stacked chimney . . . and she runs the Blessed… Read more →
Hosted by Lipsy Lost and Found, my Wednesday post gives you a taste of what I’m reading this week. A similar meme is run by Taking on a World of Words. The Hierarchy still call me Vis Telimus. Still hail me as Catenicus. They still, as one, believe they know who I am. I am loved, and… Read more →
Author : Jess KiddTitle : Little SparkPages : 290Publisher : CanongatePublication date : 13th August, 2026Source : Digital Review Copy A secret cannot stay locked away forever. Bodkin Bell, orphan, pickpocket and survivor, doesn’t know where she came from, but she knows she’s different. Gaslights flare as she walks past. Cutlery spins. Shocks fly from… Read more →
Author : Frances QuinnTitle : The Scandalous Ladies Football ClubPages : 400Publisher : Simon & SchusterPublication date : 2nd July, 2026Source : Bought my own copy London, 1887: schoolteacher Minnie Newton is horrified when her female pupils placidly accept the limitations Victorian society puts on their ambitions and their lives. To show them women can… Read more →
Hosted by Lipsy Lost and Found, my Wednesday post gives you a taste of what I’m reading this week. A similar meme is run by Taking on a World of Words. Someone is dead. Someone is a killer. Someone is lying. A woman is found in bloodstained clothes on the lonely coast of County Mayo. At first,… Read more →
Author : Ellery LloydTitle : Time to BurnPages : 320Publisher : Pan MacmillanPublication date : 23rd July, 2026Source : Digital review copy London, the present day: commercial time travel is a reality. Tempus Tours – owned by controversial tech entrepreneur Inigo Frank – offers the wealthy a chance to witness pivotal moments in history. To… Read more →
