Archives for June 2016

How I Review…(or Sorry for not finishing the book)

I’ve failed absolutely miserably with my efforts to complete Deadly Harvest for today. So what do I do? Hide? Make something up? Or try to do something a little different?

Epiphany Jones

I have a confession before I get into my review of Michael Grothaus’s remarkable debut novel Epiphany Jones You’ll all think less of me and I feel that I should probably lose my right to blog about books. It took me about a week to read Epiphany Jones…

Daisy in Chains

Last year I had a tie for my favourite book of the year – Clare Mackintosh’s brilliant debut I Let You Go (now nominated for the Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year) and Sharon Bolton’s Little Black Lies, a superb psychological thriller set in the Falkland Islands…

The Seven Sisters

A couple of years ago I read Lucinda Riley’s cracking novel The Midnight Rose. I was swept away by the romance, beauty and scope of the novel but I promised that any future Lucinda Riley books I read would be on the Kindle…