The Daughter by TM Logan

by | Feb 27, 2025 | Book review

The Daughter combines elements of psychological thrillers, pure thrillers and organised crime. This is a fast-paced book focusing on Lauren, whose university-aged daughter Evie has gone missing. The more Lauren and her young son Lucas try to discover the truth, the...

Newsletter 22 February 2025

by | Feb 22, 2025 | Newsletter

I thought I would try something fun this week. I’ll be sure to give you the answer in next Saturday’s newsletter. 5 RANDOM THINGS ABOUT ME…EXCEPT ONE IS FALSE. Can you guess which one? Click the one you think is false: 1. I was considered an expert in...

Wife Mother Liar by Sue Watson

by | Feb 19, 2025 | Book review

Wife Mother Liar is told in alternating POVs from two former friends and neighbours and focuses on the tragedy that befell Jill’s son, Leo. I thoroughly enjoyed the beginning and the end – which gave me whiplash with all the twists and turns – but struggled a bit in...

Tiny Daggers by Caroline Corcoran

by | Feb 15, 2025 | Book review

This is a story of two British Hollys. Holly Jones is living the ideal expat life in Miami when Holly Wild arrives in town and infiltrates Holly Jones’ life. We soon come to realise that these two have history. They were at school together, where Holly Jones...

Newsletter 15 February 2025

by | Feb 15, 2025 | Newsletter

When did you start reading? I can’t remember a time when I didn’t read so I think I must have been very little. My favourite books were The Cat In The Hat, all of Roald Dahl’s books, The Water Babies and Anne of Green Gables. Unfortunately, some of these books are...

Newsletter 6 February 2025

by | Feb 6, 2025 | Newsletter

Welcome to my new newsletter! I’m bringing in a few changes, including committing to sending this out once a week. Yikes! Well, at least I’ll give it a go… Do you participate in yearly reading challenges? So this is a bit controversial…but I’m not a...

Famous Last Words by Gillian McAllister

by | Jan 30, 2025 | Book review

‘Famous Last Words’ is an excellent book that starts with a bang. Cam’s husband is the perpetrator in a deadly hostage situation. The novel fast forwards to seven years later, but although Cam has moved on, she’s never been able to reconcile what Luke...
Tragedy, True Crime and Random Acts of Kindness

Tragedy, True Crime and Random Acts of Kindness

by | Jul 31, 2021 | General

I’ve always known that my great-grandmother perished in a concentration camp. When my grandparents escaped Czechoslovakia for England in 1940, she refused to go with them. In her last letter to my grandmother, she wrote: ‘So my dear, may God give you more happiness in...