I received a review copy ahead of this blog tour, with thanks. This review forms my honest opinion. Review I've enjoyed The Streets, Like Flowers, Come Alive in the Rain immensely! Poetry bordering on prose, I loved how each poem tells a tiny story of snapshot moments in time; personal experiences, observations of others and … Continue reading The Streets, Like Flowers, Come Alive in the Rain by Steve Denehan
Category: Book Reviews
Backstories by Simon Van Der Velde
I received an ebook of Backstories from the author. The choice to review was my own and this review forms my honest opinion. Blurb Dreamers, singers, talkers and killers; they can dazzle with their beauty or their talent or their unmitigated evil, but inside themselves they are as frail and desperate as the rest of … Continue reading Backstories by Simon Van Der Velde
Win by Harlan Coben
I accessed a review copy of Win, by my own request, via Netgalley. Thank you to the publishers for approving me to read. This review forms my honest opinion. Blurb Over twenty years ago, heiress Patricia Lockwood was abducted during a robbery of her family's estate, then locked inside an isolated cabin for months. Patricia … Continue reading Win by Harlan Coben
Behind Closed Doors by Catherine Alliott
My thanks to the publisher, Michael Joseph, for asking me to take part in this blog tour and for providing a review copy. The decision to take part was my own and this review forms my honest opinion. Blurb From the outside, anyone would think that Lucy Palmer has it all: loving children, a dashing … Continue reading Behind Closed Doors by Catherine Alliott
Old Bones by Helen Kitson
My thanks to Emma Welton for inviting me to take part in this blog tour. I read my own copy of this book in preparation for this tour, which I had pre-ordered some months ago. This review forms my honest opinion. Blurb Diana and her sister Antonia are house-sharing spinsters who have never got over … Continue reading Old Bones by Helen Kitson
NB Magazine Bloggers Book Prize Shortlist
Eeeeek! It's me!! Earlier this year I decided to enter the NB Magazine Bloggers Book Prize in support of my favourite book of 2020, the utterly gorgeous All The Lonely People by Mike Gayle. I clicked submit, and promptly forgot about it until I got the email telling me I'd been shortlisted. After reading several … Continue reading NB Magazine Bloggers Book Prize Shortlist
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
My thanks to Anne Cater of Random Things Tours who invited me to take part in the blog tour for this book which has been on my radar for some time! My thanks also go to the publishers for providing a review ebook. This review forms my honest opinion. Blurb A debut novel of unlikely … Continue reading The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
A Sky Full of Stars by Dani Atkins
I requested to read via Netgalley, and my thanks go to the publishers for approving my request. This review forms my honest opinion. Blurb He'd have done everything differently if he'd known she'd be gone so soon... When Lisa married Alex, she gave his life meaning. She was a professional astronomer: a stargazer. And when … Continue reading A Sky Full of Stars by Dani Atkins
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
I requested to read via Netgalley, my thanks go to the publishers who granted access. This review forms my honest opinion. Blurb Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong, both are now artists - he a … Continue reading Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
The Charmed Wife by Olga Grushin
I requested to read this book via Netgalley, my thanks to the publishers for approving me to read. This review forms my honest opinion. Blurb And they lived happily ever after . . . didn't they? Cinderella married the man of her dreams - the perfect ending she deserved after diligently following all the fairy-tale … Continue reading The Charmed Wife by Olga Grushin
