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November 7, 2023
#Bookreview Just The Way You Are by Beth Moran
What they say:
THE TOP 10 BESTSELLERA novel about friendship, romance and learning to love yourself – just the way you are.When Olivia Tennyson – or Ollie to her friends – was sixteen, she wrote a Dream List of all the things she wanted for her life, including a happy marriage and a family. But at twenty-nine, Ollie is single, living at home with her over-protective and manipulative mother, and is feeling like her dreams are getting further out of reach.
It’s time for a change...
November 4, 2023
#Bookreview A Cornish Seaside Murder by Fiona Leitch
What they say:
A Siren’s call… to murder
Former Met police officer Jodie ‘Nosey’ Parker is working a trial period as an auxiliary Detective Sergeant with the Penstowan police force. But living and working alongside DCI Nathan Withers – while still trying to grow her catering company – brings its own challenges, especially when Jodie’s attention is quickly taken up by the suspicious drowning of a local fisherman.
While tourists and locals alike are falling under the spell of the ann...
November 3, 2023
#Bookreview The Perfect Christmas Village by Bella Osborne @osborne_bella
What they say: Tis the season…. for a Christmas cynic to have his frozen heart melted by festive magic.
When Christmas-hating Sam moves to Holly Cross, he thinks he’s found the perfect home, until he discovers that, each year, Holly Cross transforms into the most Christmassy village in the whole country…
Blythe is just one sale away from being Real Estate Agent of the Month, so she twists the truth to sell a home to city boy Sam, who is looking for the perfect house in the perfect location. Li...
October 15, 2023
#BookReview I love you always forever by Charlie Dean @KeelingFlorence
What they say:
Charlie’s life needs to change. She’s trying so hard to find the light in the darkest of days. Taken for granted by her whole family, and trying to be everything to everyone, except for herself, sometimes she just feels like running away.
When she stumbles across her teenage diaries at her childhood home, she’s instantly transported back to the 90s, reliving her emotional teenage years; her first kiss, her first boyfriend, her first love.
When she bizarrely comes int...
September 29, 2023
It Always Snows on Mistletoe Square by Ali McNamara #BookReview
What they say: Bestselling author and reader favourite, Ali McNamara, is giving her readers just what’s on their Christmas list. Curl up with this magical winter warmer…
Wanted: experienced writer to record the history of one house and its family.
Bed and board provided, the successful applicant must love Christmas.
Elle is rudderless, jobless and she’s soon to be homeless. When she spies an advert that looks like it could answer all her problems she’s devastated to see one huge catch. Elle d...
September 21, 2023
#Coverreveal I Did, Did I by Luna Hayes
Oh just wait wait wait until you see this perfect cover … Today I am thrilled to reveal what just looks like rom com perfection! Can’t wait to read!!
That’s it-isn’t it beautiful?
Preorder here (out Jan 2024)
Find the author, Luna Hayes on Instagram @lunahayeswrites
September 12, 2023
#Coverreveal A Blend of Magic by Kate Kenzie @WitchesOfWhitby @kakenzie101
Yes, yes, you’re fed up of hearing this by now, but oh my wordy, word how I love witch cozies!! And I have a treat for you today– a cover reveal! This sounds magical and I can’t WAIT to read!!!!
What they say: A witch cannot exist on potions and tea alone.
Hiding in the shadows, staunch singleton Willow Anderson is content running her successful business, The Enchanted Emporium. With Christmas days away, she’s eager to exchange selling bespoke tea blends and spells for extended bubble...
September 7, 2023
#blogtour #bookreview Married by Thirty by Jodie Homer @umbrellacafe
I’m too excited here, another fab book by the magical Jodie Homer!
What they say: Almost fourteen years ago, Freya and James made a pact to marry if they were both single at thirty.
When Freya inherits Mulberry Manor and its rumoured ghost, she returns home and enlists James’ help in figuring out the truth behind the ‘haunted house’. But it’s not just the house that is being a little weird.
Can James and Freya figure out the mystery of Dahlia Mulberry without the spark ...
September 6, 2023
#Book Extract @claidlawauthor The Time Between Space
Am thrilled today to host an extract that reeled me in from the brilliant Charlie Laidlaw’s book, The Time Between Space.
What they say: The story follows the protagonist (Emma) during her childhood and adult years in Edinburgh and East Lothian. The secret that only Emma knows is that her mother’s death was no accident. Her knowledge of her mother’s conscious decision to die by suicide precipitates a suicide attempt and leads to her estrangement from her father. Emma stumbl...
September 1, 2023
Bookreview: Supper for Six by Fiona Sherlock
What they say:
When Lady Anderson invites five guests to her apartment in Bruton Square, Mayfair, none of the guests know why they have been summoned. And it isn’t long before dinner turns DEADLY.
From the author of Twelve Motives for Murder comes another brilliant immersive murder mystery.
Supper for Six . . . but murder is on the menu
The mystery of Bruton Square has never been solved. On that infamous night in 1977, six strangers were invited for dinner at Lady Sybil Anderson’s Mayfair a...
