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The Cure by Eve Smith

LIVING FOREVER CAN BE LETHAL…

Ruth is a law-abiding elder, working out her national service, but she hassecrets. Her tireless research into the disease that killed her young daughter had an unexpected outcome: the discovery of a vaccine against old age. Just one jab a year reverses your biological clock, guaranteeing a long, healthy life.

But Ruth’s cure was hijacked by her colleague, Erik Grundleger, who hungers for immortality, and the SuperJuve – a premium upgrade – was created, driving human lifespan to a new high. The wealthy elite who take it are dubbed Supers, and the population begins to skyrocket.

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Then, a perilous side-effect of the SuperJuve emerges, with catastrophic consequences, and as the planet is threatened, the population rebels, and laws are passed to restore order: life ends at 120. Supers are tracked down by Omnicide investigators like Mara … and executed…

Mara has her own reasons for hunting Supers, and she forms an unlikely alliance with Ruth to find Grundleger. But Grundleger has been working on something even more radical and is one step ahead, with a deadly surprise in store for them both…

My Review

I’m so out of my comfort zone here. Firstly, I don’t usually read speculative fiction, sci-fi or dystopian future novels. And secondly, I don’t think this is entirely fiction, which is terrifying.

I remember reading some time ago (may have been Sir David Attenborough) that seven billion was the tipping point for our population. We’ve already passed that and those of us with half a brain know the earth is in trouble. But then we have another issue. We want to eradicate the diseases that mostly come with ageing, like cancer, heart disease and dementia. That would enable people to live to a ripe old age, and not merely ‘exist’. Because no-one wants to die, much less in pain and confusion. Much of this has to do with the demise of religion in the west, as we no longer believe we are going to a better place up there (hopefully up not down).

Sixty years ago, Ruth’s daughter Lettie suffered from a rare, progressive genetic disorder called Progeria syndrome. It starts when the sufferers are toddlers and they are unlikely to live past their teens. They visibly age rapidly and there is no cure. When Lettie dies age ten, Ruth is trying to develop a vaccine that can stop the ageing process.

Too late for Lettie, but eventually she succeeds. Only it has an unexpected outcome – it can reverse the ageing process in adults. Now everyone can be healthy and happy into their 80s, 90s, even 100s. Well whoopy do! Who wouldn’t want that? We’d all want it. One simple injection a year and we’d never get sick and look thirty-five at 90. But the population would explode, and the old would outstrip the young. We’d need more housing, there would be no green spaces, no wildlife, just concrete.

Look to now, (or in the future in this case), and that’s exactly what has happened. Ruth’s ex-colleague Erik Grundleger wants to live forever. He’s hi-jacked her research and created a SuperJuve vaccine which keeps you young for decades. It’s very expensive – of course – so only available to the super rich who become known as Supers.

Twenty-five-year-old Mara is an investigator for Omnicide. She is sharp and as hard as nails, and seeks out Supers for extermination. Those of us old enough will remember the film Logan’s Run. Everyone has to die at a set age – in this case 30 (in The Cure it’s 120!) – by going to ‘Carousel’ to be exterminated. Logan is a ‘Sandman’, who hunts down escapees in order to execute them (but he’s nearly 30 and we can guess the rest).

Mara is determined to find Grundleger and his mates including Jeff Busk (I love the name – think about it) and others. In order to do so she finds herself thrown together with Ruth – now 115 and close to her ‘transcendence’ where you peacefully end your own life, your way, at your own funeral (not good for Pure Cremation). And it’s compulsory.

I’m waffling on now – you must be getting bored of me – so read the book. It’s absolutely brilliant and horrifying. But the answer – well I really don’t know.

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About the Author

Eve Smith writes speculative thrillers, mainly about the things that scare her. Longlisted for the Not the Booker Prize and described by Waterstones as ‘an exciting new voice in crime fiction’, Eve’s debut novel, The Waiting Rooms, set in the aftermath of an antibiotic resistance crisis, was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize First Novel Award and was a Book of the Month in the Guardian, who compared her writing to Michael Crichton’s. It was followed by Off-Target, about a world where genetic engineering of children is routine, and ONE, about survival in a world ravaged by climate change. Eve’s previous job at an environmental charity took her to research projects across Asia, Africa and the Americas, and she has an ongoing passion for wild creatures, wild science and far-flung places. She lives in Oxfordshire with her family.

About Orenda Books

Orenda Books is a small independent publishing company specialising in literary fiction with a heavy emphasis on crime/thrillers, and approximately half the list in translation. They’ve been twice shortlisted for the Nick Robinson Best Newcomer Award at the IPG awards, and publisher and owner Karen Sullivan was a Bookseller Rising Star in 2016. In 2018, they were awarded a prestigious Creative Europe grant for their translated books programme. Three authors, including Agnes Ravatn, Matt Wesolowski and Amanda Jennings have been WHSmith Fresh Talent picks, and Ravatn’s The Bird Tribunal was shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award, won an English PEN Translation Award, and adapted for BBC Radio Four ’s Book at Bedtime. Six titles have been short- or long-listed for the CWA Daggers. Launched in 2014 with a mission to bring more international literature to the UK market, Orenda Books publishes a host of debuts, many of which have gone on to sell millions worldwide, and looks for fresh, exciting new voices that push the genre in new directions. Bestselling authors include Ragnar Jonasson, Antti Tuomainen, Gunnar Staalesen, Michael J. Malone, Kjell Ola Dahl, Louise Beech, Johana Gustawsson, Lilja Sigurðardóttir and Sarah Stovell.

The Marriage Vendetta by Caroline Madden

If a therapist promised they could fix your selfish husband, but only if you followed their dangerously unorthodox methods, would you do it?

Eliza’s playwright husband Richard Sheridan has accepted the career opportunity of a lifetime: running a prestigious theatre in Dublin. Eliza plays the role of the supportive wife – uprooting their daughter Mara, relocating from England to Dublin, running the household and managing Richard’s paperwork – but inside, she’s burning with resentment.

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Eliza was once a globe-trotting classical pianist; now, her time is consumed by the dramas of the judgmental ‘momfluencers’ at the café across from Mara’s school, where she spends hours anxiously watching her lonely daughter during playtimes.

When she’s sent a suggestive photo of Richard with another woman, it’s the last straw. She turns to mysterious marriage therapist Ellen Early for help. But Eliza has no idea just how far Ms. Early is willing to go to get results …

My Review

I started this one evening and then read the rest of the book in one day. It’s such a fast read, and you just want to keep going.

Eliza hates confrontation. I know the feeling. She makes jokes rather than come back with a sharp retort. She’s basically a doormat.

She was a successful classical pianist, but when Richard Sheridan helped her escape her tyrannical father, she became his doormat instead. She gave up her career to focus entirely on her daughter Mara, and support Richard’s flourishing career. But in reality, she resents his success while her life is unfulfilled.

Mara is lonely and withdrawn, and Eliza doesn’t know how to fix it. She struggles to make friends herself as she doesn’t identify with the stay at home mums or the working mums. Then she finds a business card on her table in the Honey Cafe and decides to contact the therapist Ellen Early for help. But who is this woman? Her methods are very strange and Eliza really should have done her research.

I found Ms Early the most fascinating of all the characters in the story. Eliza needs to wake up and smell the coffee, she really does, but if she’d done the aforementioned research, she might have been more suspicious.

I just loved this book. It’s not only witty and at times laugh out loud funny, it’s a fascinating insight into marriage, relationships, jealousy and obsession. I just hope Mara comes out OK.

Many thanks to @Tr4cyF3nt0n for inviting me to be part of the #CompulsiveReaders #blogtour and to NetGalley for an ARC.

About the Author

Having grown up in a small town in the middle of Ireland, Caroline got notions and moved to Dublin where she swanned around Trinity College for a few years. She got a degree in something called management science and still isn’t sure what exactly that is. After trying to make it as a corporate stooge, Caroline found herself in the world of journalism where she was able to secretly work on her novels while she was supposed to be writing stock market reports.

Much as she wishes otherwise, she is not the LA-based infidelity recovery expert of the same name.

Dangerous by Essie Fox

Fiction can be fatal…

Living in exile in Venice, the disgraced Lord Byron revels in the freedoms of the city. But when he is associated with the deaths of local women, found with wounds to their throats, and then a novel called The Vampyre is published under his name, rumours begin to spread that Byron may be the murderer…

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As events escalate and tensions rise – and his own life is endangered, as well as those he holds most dear – Byron is forced to play detective, to discover who is really behind these heinous crimes. Meanwhile, the scandals of his own infamous past come back to haunt him…

Rich in Gothic atmosphere and drawing on real events and characters from Byron’s life, Dangerous is a riveting, dazzling historical thriller, as decadent, dark and seductive as the poet himself…

My Review

Once I’d finished the book and read the historical context at the end about the real characters and the fictional ones, I went online and did my own research. I never realised Byron was the father of Ada Lovelace or that Polidori’s sister was the mother of Christina and Dante Gabriele Rosetti (the latter of which I was a bit obsessed with after watching the TV programme Desperate Romantics in 2009). Polidori is also an interesting character, I’ve researched him as well. Polidori’s father worked as a secretary for the ‘tragic’ Italian playwright Count Vittorio Alfieri.

Dangerous is a very entertaining read, though Lord Byron is hard to like. He is ultimately a selfish, self-absorbed, narcissistic philanderer. He spreads it about without consequence, but the one that upset me the most was his poor little daughter Allegra (her fate is well documented though I won’t print a ‘spoiler’ – you can look it up). And I did worry about the menagerie, especially Mutz the dog (again real and well documented).

When a prostitute is murdered in the street and then another is found dead in Byron’s bed at a brothel, the fingers point at him as he was there on both occasions. But is he a murderer or is he being framed? And why would anyone wish to discredit him? I could probably give a few reasons, his treatment of his ‘women’ being one, or being named as the author of Polidori’s The Vampyre. But nothing is ever that simple and we have a long way to go before the web is untangled.

I think it’s the mix of fact and fiction that makes this book so interesting. I hope Netflix (other production companies are available) will take it up as it would make a fantastic series. And who wouldn’t want to play Lord Byron?

Many thanks to @annecater for inviting me to be part of #RandomThingsTours

About the Author

Essie Fox was born and raised in rural Herefordshire, which inspires much of her writing. After studying English Literature at Sheffield University, she moved to London where she worked for the Telegraph Sunday Magazine, and then book publishers George Allen & Unwin, before becoming self-employed in the world of art and design. Essie now spends her time writing historical Gothic novels. Her debut, The Somnambulist, was shortlisted for the National Book Awards, and featured on Channel 4’s TV Book Club. The Last Days of Leda Grey, set in the early years of silent film, was selected as The Times Historical Book of the Month. Essie’s Victorian Gothic novel, The Fascination, debuted at number 10 on the Sunday Times bestseller list, and was widely acclaimed. Essie is also the creator of the popular blog: The Virtual Victorian. She has lectured on this era at the V&A, and the National Gallery in London. She lives in Windsor.

About Orenda Books

Orenda Books is a small independent publishing company specialising in literary fiction with a heavy emphasis on crime/thrillers, and approximately half the list in translation. They’ve been twice shortlisted for the Nick Robinson Best Newcomer Award at the IPG awards, and publisher and owner Karen Sullivan was a Bookseller Rising Star in 2016. In 2018, they were awarded a prestigious Creative Europe grant for their translated books programme. Three authors, including Agnes Ravatn, Matt Wesolowski and Amanda Jennings have been WHSmith Fresh Talent picks, and Ravatn’s The Bird Tribunal was shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award, won an English PEN Translation Award, and adapted for BBC Radio Four ’s Book at Bedtime. Six titles have been short- or long-listed for the CWA Daggers. Launched in 2014 with a mission to bring more international literature to the UK market, Orenda Books publishes a host of debuts, many of which have gone on to sell millions worldwide, and looks for fresh, exciting new voices that push the genre in new directions. Bestselling authors include Ragnar Jonasson, Antti Tuomainen, Gunnar Staalesen, Michael J. Malone, Kjell Ola Dahl, Louise Beech, Johana Gustawsson, Lilja Sigurðardóttir and Sarah Stovell.

The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson by Ellen Baker

In 1924, four-year-old Cecily Larson’s mother reluctantly drops her off at an orphanage in Chicago, promising to be back once she’s made enough money to support both Cecily and herself.

But she never returns, and shortly after high-spirited Cecily turns seven, she is sold to a traveling circus to perform as the “little sister” to glamorous bareback rider Isabelle DuMonde. With Isabelle and the rest of the circus, Cecily finally feels she’s found the family she craves. But as the years go by, the cracks in her little world begin to show. And when teenage Cecily meets and falls in love with a young roustabout named Lucky, she finds her life thrown onto an entirely unexpected—and dangerous—course.

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In 2015, Cecily is now 94 and living a quiet life in Minnesota, with her daughter, granddaughter, and great-grandson. But when her family decides to surprise her with an at-home DNA test, the unexpected results not only bring to light the tragic love story that Cecily has kept hidden for decades but also throw into question everything about the family she’s raised and claimed as her own for nearly seventy years. Cecily and everyone in her life must now decide who they really are and what family—and forgiveness—really mean.

Sweeping through a long period of contemporary history, The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson is an immersive, compelling, and entertaining family drama centered around one remarkable woman and her determination to survive.

My Review

If I said this book was epic, I would mean that literally. It takes place over two timelines, following Cecily as a child and teenager, and then in 2015, when she is 94 and we meet her family. Her daughter Liz is a potter. She is widowed and has two children, Molly and Eric (who is away all the time), and a grandson Caden. Now I struggled to warm to Liz. She’s quite prickly and judgemental, but I did love Molly, divorced from husband Evan, but obviously still in love with him. Caden plays hockey at almost Olympic level and is studying genetics at school. It took me some time to get my head around all these people.

I loved the story of Cecily as a child. Having been abandoned at an orphanage by her mother, who promises to return within a year but never does, she is sold into the circus where she performs as a bareback rider, the ‘“little sister” to glamorous bareback rider Isabelle DuMonde.’ She performs with the circus until at 15 she meets a roustabout named Lucky, and they fall in love. But Lucky is Black and not only was that frowned upon, it was actually a criminal offence to have a relationship with a person of colour and could result in imprisonment or worse. The level of racism and prejudice is astonishing, even though I shouldn’t be remotely surprised.

So was the treatment of women who became pregnant out of wedlock. They were sent to a house of correction and considered “…feebleminded, cause they say only feebleminded girls do it.” Therefore ‘Cecily was incorrigible, a transient, a sex delinquent …a complete psychopath …a certain prostitute and potential murderess.’ Not much different to the UK and Ireland at this time.

Then about half way through we meet Kate, her younger sister Lana and their mother Clarissa and I wondered who they were and what was the connection to Cecily? This was a bit confusing until little clues started to evolve.

A tiny bit slow to start while we get to know all the characters, but it’s a fantastic book and highly recommended as a holiday read, though you may find yourself angry at the attitudes of the time, and sad (in a good way) when it all comes together.

Many thanks to @annecater for inviting me to be part of #RandomThingsTours

About the Author

Ellen Baker is the author of Keeping the House and I Gave My Heart to Know This. She has worked as a bookseller and event coordinator at an independent bookstore. Originally from the Upper Midwest, she currently lives in Maine.

The Ballochbrae Book Club by M.C. Mackay cover reveal

The Ballochbrae Book Club  is a heartwarming tale set in the charming Scottish village of Ballochbrae.

On Balmoral Castle’s doorstep, Flora, Heather, Chatty and Morag – women of a certain age – form a book group. There’s just one problem: nobody wants to read the books.

Then a body is dragged from the River Dee. Was foul play involved? Led by Flora, the four set out to pursue their own enquiries, uncovering secrets and lies in Ballochbrae, their sleepy Highland village.

Genre: Cosy mystery

Publishing soon and here is the fab cover:

But when their investigation gains pace, a series of setbacks causes tensions to escalate. After police warn them off, the would-be detectives give themselves forty-eight hours to solve the mystery.

As the clock runs down, it emerges their suspects aren’t the only ones with guilty secrets. Flora is forced to confront her worst fears and Chatty’s past comes back to haunt her.

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Put Out The Light by Guy Hale Cover Reveal

Congratulations to Guy Hale on the cover reveal of Act III! And here is the blurb:

Act  III

Stratford-upon-Avon, spring 1972. On the streets of Stratford, four murders remain unsolved. For DC Toby Marlowe, there is only one potential killer: Oliver Lawrence. But nobody has seen Oliver for over fifteen years. They don’t even know what he looks like; they are chasing a shadow.

Genre: Crime Fiction
Publisher: The Bullington Press

Oliver’s first act is complete. As spring turns to summer, Act I, III is about to begin. Like Othello, he is poisoned by lies from the past. Revenge has consumed him … Now is the time to put out more lights!

About the Author

Guy Hale was born in Worcestershire, England. His first job was as a Professional Golfer. He also played Rugby and raced motorcycles until his mid-twenties. When this failed to kill him he started writing plays, mostly two handers which he performed in pubs and assorted venues with his mate, Andy.

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The Girls in the Basement by Steena Holmes

Jillian thought she knew her husband. They’ve been married for twenty years. But she doesn’t know him at all.

Jillian Harper thought moving to the quiet little town in Montana would be the fresh start her family needed. A charming farmhouse, friendly neighbors, and endless open fields — it was supposed to be perfect.

Until the bodies are found.

Buried deep on their land. Hidden for years.

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The police are everywhere. The town is whispering. And Tucker — her devoted husband — is acting . . . strange. He won’t tell her where he was all day. He won’t explain why his phone was off. And worst of all — he won’t meet her eyes.

Jillian knows Tucker is lying. She just doesn’t know why.

But the truth is far worse than she imagined. Because someone left those bodies there. Maybe the real monster isn’t lurking out there in the fields . . . Maybe he’s sleeping in her bed.

My Review

Meet Jillian Harper, who takes the prize for the most naive wife of all time. No matter how many times her husband Tucker disappears and she can’t get hold of him, how many times he lets her and baseball-mad son Ethan down, or she hears him having shady discussions on the phone, she still believes he is innocent of any wrongdoing. Even after decomposing bodies are found in trailers on the land they bought for a pittance, having left protective custody and fled again, she still trusts him. But she can’t ignore the evidence forever.

Agent Meri Amber is a police officer, now working with the FBI. She is investigating the bodies in the trailers who they believe to be the victims of a sex trafficking ring. Meri has a vested interest – her sister disappeared twenty years ago and she is always searching for her. Could her sister be one of the bodies? And how many more bodies have still not been found?

The ‘Red House’ is the stuff of myth and nightmares, but we know it exists, because it’s where Lola lives with ‘Mother’, who hands the girls over to the ‘Lady’ to sell them to the highest bidder. Mother has always protected Lola, who she treats differently from the other girls. Lola has a scar on her face which they both hope will keep her safe as no-one will want her with her disfigurement.

How can Tucker be involved in something so heinous. Something that makes you sick to the stomach. He won’t explain, he just tells Jillian he is keeping her and Ethan ‘safe’, but can she go on believing him? And then there is Becky from her childhood, also missing for twenty years. And who is Old Man Cummins?

This is the kind of book you can’t put down, even though Jillian annoyed me a lot of the time. Poor Ethan is all I can say. I really liked Meri, and Lola’s story was probably my favourite, I so wanted her to get away.

Many thanks to @ZooloosBT  for inviting me to be part of this blog tour.

About the Author

New York Times & USA Today Bestselling Author. With 2 million copies of her titles sold world wide, Steena Holmes was named in the Top 20 Women Author to read in 2015 by Good Housekeeping. She continues to write books that deal with issues that touch parents heart, whether it is through her contemporary fiction or psychological suspense novels. 

To find out more about her books and her love for traveling, you can visit her website at http://www.steenaholmes.com 

2012 NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE BOOK Award for her bestselling novel Finding Emma 
2015 USA BOOK NEWS Award for The Word Game, 
2015 USA BOOK NEWS finalist for The Memory Child.

For softer, sweeter stories with a hint of chocolate, a lot of coffee and communities you want to live in, look for her stories under the name STEENA MARIE.

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The Mysterious Bakery On Rue De Paris by Evie Woods

This is the magical tale of Edith Lane, who sets off to find her fortune in the beautiful city of Paris.

Fortune, however, is a fickle thing and Edith ends up working in a vintage bakery in the positively antique town of Compiègne.

Escaping heartache and singledom in Ireland, Edith discovers that the bakery on Rue De Paris is not exactly what it seems and that some ghosts from the past are harder to escape than others. A heart-warming story that is sure to appeal to all of the senses, The Mysterious Bakery On Rue De Paris is a mouth-watering journey of love, liberty and la vie en rose.

My Review

I did French for O level (and almost A level but we won’t go there) and I found that I understood almost all the French in the book. Useful and surprising, but not essential. Mostly it’s translated or hinted at in the text.

I’m a huge fan of the author and this book was gorgeous, with a lot of love, a bit of ghostly haunting and old secrets. I adored the characters of Edith, Hugo, Madame Moreau, Nicole and all the others from Compiègne. Even the customers of the bakery are fascinating.

But this is not just a tale about an old bakery with a love element thrown in. It’s also a dual-timeline story about war and injustice, prejudice and hope.

Edith Lane has left her single life in Ireland to take up a job as assistant manager at a bakery on the Rue de Paris. Believing it to be situated in Paris itself, she is confused to discover that it’s actually in a small town named Compiègne, north of the city. It’s a town with a history and links to the atrocities of Word War Two. And that is where the book became more layered and interesting. The bakery is struggling to survive, but can Edith help Madame Moreau and her grandson save it?

I listened once again on Audible (because I love the Irish narrators) and look forward to more from this author.

About the Author

Evie Woods is the pseudonym of Evie Gaughan, bestselling author of The Story Collector, The Heirloom and The Mysterious Bakery On Rue De Paris. Living on the West Coast of Ireland, Evie escapes the inclement weather by writing her stories in a converted attic, where she dreams of underfloor heating. Her books tread the intriguing line between the everyday and the otherworldly, revealing the magic that exists in our ordinary lives.

Manifest Your Infinite Riches by Pushkar Anand guest post

When Jack Canfield (Co-creator of Chicken Soup for the Soul series) says, “This is the book we’ve all been waiting for”, we do need to listen!

Here’s what awaits The Six Statutes of Money:  Master the principles that attract wealth. The Multi-Pronged Model To Manifest Your Infinite Riches:  Balance material and spiritual riches. Your Daily Ritual To Manifest Your Infinite Riches:  Create a routine that brings success. Real-Life Get inspired by people who’ve transformed their lives. Hands-On Practical steps to apply what you learn.

Join Pushkar on a four-part journey of self-discovery where he’s your guide, mentor, and friend. Drawing on his own fifteen-year epic journey to self-realization, Pushkar breaks down years of wisdom into practical advice and inspiring insights.

Packed with thought-provoking ideas and actionable steps, this is your personal playbook to becoming the person you were always meant to be. Learn to connect with your soul, attract wealth effortlessly, and live a life of abundance. Manifest Your Infinite Riches is your ultimate guide to a brighter, more prosperous, and richer future.

Here’s what people are saying about Manifest Your Infinite Riches…

“This book is a gift to all those seeking to live their best lives.”
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“I urge you to make the learnings from this book an integral part of your life.”
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“An extraordinary, game-changing book based on a fifteen-year journey.”
David Meltzer, Forbes Top 10 speaker, former CEO, and entrepreneur.

Yes, you are infinitely rich; you are infinitely rich because you are you!

“I started Manifest Your Infinite Riches with these words because I know that every human being is infinitely rich – both materially and spiritually – and with access to the right content, disciplined application, and consistent execution, everyone can manifest their infinite riches.

“Manifest Your Infinite Riches takes the reader through a four-part journey of self-discovery. Drawing on my own journey to self-realization, I hold your hand as a guide, mentor, and tutor, sharing my deep understandings distilled through fifteen years of study, blended with my distinctive perspective on some key messages of other philosophers whose learnings helped me while on his own journey. The result is a unique and powerful manual for you to live your infinitely rich life.

“While my formal education took me to the University of Cambridge and the London School of Economics, it was when I was in the early stages of my corporate career that a profound moment of insight in 2008 led me to re-evaluate my life’s expectations and priorities. 

“This moment of insight set me on a quest as a seeker – an extraordinary quest of endless research and self-discovery that covered more than 500 books, thirty seminars, and an intense four-year, one-on-one programme of study with my spiritual and philosophical guide, Blaine Bartlett. Blaine is a leading global authority on the intersection of spirituality, business, and leadership, and I fondly address him as Grandmaster B2.  

“My fifteen-year journey resulted in my founding the Centre for Infinite Riches® (www.centreforinfiniteriches.com) and writing this book.  The Centre for Infinite Riches® is a social enterprise with a presence in every continent. Its purpose is to Uplift Humanity by enabling everyone it touches to become the person they were always meant to be.

“To become the person you were always meant to be, in turn happens when you meet four criteria. These criteria are: (i) You live in spiritual harmony, in harmony with your soul (ii) You recognize your spectacular potential (iii) You unleash your colossal forces (iv) You embrace abundance and prosperity.

“When you do these four things, you then are truly awake, and when you are truly awake, you are on the path to manifest your infinite riches – to become the person you were always meant to be!

“While it took me fifteen years to manifest my infinite riches, you can do it in much less the time – perhaps in a year or a bit more, or a bit less. The reason for this significant difference is that in my case, all the information I needed was dispersed across many varied sources and I had to research, identify, gather, organise and then finally, study and master it. For you though, everything I learnt is available in a structured and organized manner across the book and the website. 

“The website includes free videos as well as paid programmes. Every product that is available (book, programmes, etc) is consciously priced at a rather accessible level…and this is because, in alignment with my purpose/mission to Uplift Humanity, I want the material available to people in every nook and corner of the world. My vision that follows from the mission, is to uplift four million people by my 50th birthday on 21st October 2026, and 100 million by Blaine Bartlett’s (Grandmaster Grandmaster B2) 80th birthday on 9th September 2029.

“Manifest Your Infinite Riches is divided into four parts: (i) Recognise Your Infinite Riches (ii) Unlock Your Infinite Riches (iii) Set In Motion Your Infinite Riches (iv) Manifest Your Infinite Riches. This structure helps you go on on a four-part journey of self-discovery, where you get years of wisdom broken down into practical advice and inspiring insights. 

“Some highlights include:

·       The Six Statutes of Money: Master the principles that attract wealth.

·       The Multi-Pronged Model To Manifest Your Infinite Riches: Balance material and spiritual riches.

·       Your Daily Ritual To Manifest Your Infinite Riches: Create a routine that brings success.

·       Real-Life Examples: Get inspired by people who’ve transformed their lives.

·       Hands-On Exercises: Practical steps to apply what you learn.

“This liberating and transformative manual is packed with thought-provoking ideas and actionable steps, and diligently following what is taught there, will enable you to become the person you were always meant to be. Manifest Your Infinite Riches will take you on the journey to connect with your soul, attract wealth effortlessly, and live a life of abundance while being your ultimate guide to a brighter, more prosperous, and richer future.”

About the Author

Educated at the University of Cambridge and the London School of Economics, Pushkar Anand was in the early stages of his traditional banking career when a profound moment of insight in 2008 led him to re-evaluate his life’s expectations and priorities. This moment of insight set Pushkar on his quest as a seeker – an extraordinary quest of endless research and self-discovery that covered more than 500 books, thirty seminars, and an intense four-year, one-on-one program of study with his spiritual and philosophical guide, Blaine Bartlett. Bartlett is a leading global authority on the intersection of spirituality, business, and leadership, and is fondly addressed by Pushkar as Grandmaster B2. Pushkar’s fifteen-year journey resulted in his founding the Centre for Infinite Riches® and writing this book. The Centre for Infinite Riches® is a social enterprise with a presence in every continent. Its purpose is to Uplift Humanity by enabling everyone it touches to become the person they were always meant to be.

Choice by Jodi Picoult

In this gripping and provocative short story, #1 New York Times best-selling and award-winning author Jodi Picoult delivers a chilling glimpse into a dystopian world, seen through the fractured relationship of an ex-couple facing an unimaginable dilemma.

Please note: This content is intended for adult audiences. It addresses themes of pregnancy loss and may be distressing to some listeners. Listener discretion is advised.

Margot and James are done—for real this time. Their breakup was sealed when James made it clear: he never wants children.

Narrated by Therese Plummer
Audiobook Tour – 7th – 18th April 
Genre:  Contemporary Fiction 
Length: 38 mins
Publisher:  Audible Original

But on the most important morning of his career, James—an ambitious lawyer at a prestigious firm—wakes to find himself inexplicably pregnant, part of a baffling epidemic sweeping the nation. As his condition becomes impossible to hide, James is denied a long-anticipated promotion, leaving him spiralling.

Across town, Margot, a dedicated social worker, faces the flood of frightened, pregnant teenage boys seeking answers no one has. When James calls her in desperation, Margot is forced to confront not only their shared past but the harsh reality of navigating a post-Roe America—where the personal has become terrifyingly political.

My Review

“In the landmark 1973 case Roe v. Wade, the US Supreme Court established a woman’s constitutional right to abortion, ruling that states could not prohibit abortions during the first trimester, and could only regulate them to protect the health of the pregnant person during the second trimester, and could ban them outright after the point of fetal viability (around 24 weeks).

“On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, ending the federal constitutional right to abortion and allowing states to regulate or ban abortion.” I mention this because I am in the UK and my fellow Brits may need some background.

Many states in the US now ban a woman’s ‘right to choose’. The extent of the ban varies and in some states includes rape and incest, such as forcing a 12-year-old girl to go to full term, even if she was raped by her own father. Abortion is still legal in some states, but in others it is even illegal to travel to one of those states to seek medical intervention. And the doctor can go to prison as well for ‘helping’.

So what would happen if men had babies instead of women? In Jodi Picoult’s latest short story Choice, 32-year-old James wakes up one morning and discovers he is pregnant. He then finds out that there are tens of thousands of other pregnant men in the US. All of them had to have had intercourse.

James recently split up from long term partner Margot, having told her he never wanted kids. At one point he asks her if it’s his fault that he is pregnant because of what he said. She tells him that even he is not that important.

Well the first thing most of the men want to do is terminate the unplanned pregnancy. But of course it’s now illegal and ‘men’ made the laws. But then it didn’t affect them, did it? They didn’t need to worry about being passed over for promotion, or the pain of labour, or losing their figures. Not that any of those would be the real reasons for undergoing a termination. Being a single mother, having no access to healthcare, no medical insurance, no way of bringing up a child alone, emotionally or financially, would be nearer the mark. Or being raped, or incest.

It’s such an interesting take on things. I won’t tell you the whole story. You need to listen and decide for yourself what you think.

Many thanks to @lovebookstours for inviting me to be part of the audio tour.

About the Author

Jodi Picoult is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-eight novels, including Wish You Were Here, The Book of Two Ways, A Spark of Light, Small Great Things, Leaving Time, and My Sister’s Keeper, and, with daughter Samantha van Leer, two young adult novels, Between the Lines, Off the Page and Mad Honey. Picoult lives in New Hampshire.

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